49 Bible Verses about Self Discipline

And profane and old women's fictions reject, and exercise thyself in devotion.

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not consideration for the flesh, for the passions.

Do ye not know that they running in a race-course, all truly run, and one receives the prize of combat? Do ye so run, that ye might receive. And every one contending for the prize, has self command in all things. These surely therefore that they might receive a corruptible crown; and we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so practise I pugilism, as not laying stripes upon air:read more.
But I give my body a blow under the eyes, and reduce to bondage: lest having proclaimed to others, I myself be rejected.

And to be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And to put on the new man, created according to God in justice and sanctity of truth.

Not that I have alreaedy attained or have been already perfected: and I pursue, if I also may overtake, for which also I was overtaken by Christ Jesus. Brethren, I reckon not myself to have been overtaken: but one, truly forgetting things behind, and stretching still farther to things before, I pursue toward the scope for the prize of combat of the calling above of God in Christ Jesus.

Put on therefore, as the chosen of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassions, kindnesses, humility, meekness, longsuffering;

For God gave not to us the spirit of timidity; but of power, and love, and of soundness of mind.

And firm food is of the perfected, of them by habit having the senses exercised for the separation of good and evil.

Wherefore we also having such a cloud of witnesses lying round about us, having laid down every weight, and sin easily captivating, by patience we should run the race set before us,

In what shall a youth cleanse his way? To watch according to thy word. With all my heart I sought thee, thou wilt not cause me to wander from thy commands. In my heart I hid thy sayings, so that I shall not sin to thee.

All writing divinely inspired, and profitable for doctrine, for refutation, for correction, for instruction in justice: That the man of God might be perfect, finished for every good work.

Hidden things to Jehovah our God: and uncovered things to us and to our sons to forever, to do all the words of this law.

Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and eager worldly desires, we should live discreetly, and justly, and religiously, in the time now;

And not only, but also we boast in affliction: knowing that affliction works perseverance; And perseverance, proof; and proof, hope. And hope shames not; for the love of God has been poured in our hearts by the Holy Spirit given us.

Taking down reckonings, and every elevation lifted up against the knowledge of God, and taking captive every thought to the obedience of Christ;

For I say, by the race given me, to every one being with you, not to entertain a high opinion of one's self above what is fitting to think: but to think to be discreet, as God has divided the measure of faith to each.

And be ye not conformed to this life, but be transformed by the renovation of your mind, for you to prove what the good, and the pleasing, and the perfected will of God.

And to be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

And the end of all has drawn near: be ye therefore of sound mind, and live abstemiously in prayers.

Set, O Jehovah, a watch to my mouth; guard over the door of my lips.

For in many things we all stumble. If any stumble not in word, this a perfect man, able to govern by a bridle also the whole body. Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they should yield to us; and we lead their whole body. Behold also ships, being so great, and driven by hard winds, are led by the smallest rudder, wherever the desire of him steering should will.read more.
So also the tongue is a small member, and vaunts itself. Behold, how great a wood a little fire inflames (And the tongue a fire, a world of iniquity: so the tongue is placed in our members, defiling the whole body, and burning the wheel of creation; and burned by hell. For every nature of beasts, and also of birds, of creeping things, and also of things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by the nature of man: And the tongue none of men can tame; an ungovernable evil, full of deadly poison. With it we praise the God and Father; and with it we curse men, those made according to the similitude of God. Out of the same month comes forth blessing and cursing. There is no need, my brethren, for these things so to be. Much less from the same aperture does a fountain bubble out sweet and bitter? The fig tree, my brethren, cannot make olives, or the vine, figs: so no fountain can make salt and sweet water.

Not for sake of food destroy thou the work of God. Truly all things clean; but evil to the man eating by offence. Good not to eat flesh, nor drink wine, nor in what thy brother stumbles, or is offended, or is weak.

But I give my body a blow under the eyes, and reduce to bondage: lest having proclaimed to others, I myself be rejected.

Therefore let not sin reign in your mortal body, to listen to it in its passions. Neither present ye your members weapons of injustice to sin: but present yourselves to God, as living from the dead, and your members weapons of justice to God.

For if ye live according to the flesh, ye shall die: and if by the Spirit ye kill the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

For you to put away according to the former mode of life the old man, corrupted according to the eager desires of deceit;

Therefore kill your members that are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

For in many things we all stumble. If any stumble not in word, this a perfect man, able to govern by a bridle also the whole body.

For if we examined ourselves, we should not be judged. And being judged, we are corrected of the Lord, lest we be condemned with the world.

For bodily exercise is profitable, to little: but devotion is profitable to all things, having promise of life now, and that about to be.

And every one contending for the prize, has self command in all things. These surely therefore that they might receive a corruptible crown; and we an incorruptible.

But hospitable, a lover of good, of sound mind, just, holy, holding firm;

And they will come to the place which God said to him; and Abraham will build an altar there, and put in order the wood: and he will find Isaak his son, and put him upon the altar, upon the wood. And Abraham will stretch out the hand and will take the knife to slaughter his son. And the messenger of Jehovah will call to him out of the heavens, and will say, Abraham, Abraham. And he will say, Behold me.read more.
And he will say, Thou shalt not put forth thy hand upon the boy, and thou shalt do nothing to him; for now I know that thou feared God, and thou didst not spare thy son thine only, from me. And Abraham will lift up his eyes, and will see and behold a ram behind, being held in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham will come and take the ram and bring it for a burnt offering instead of his son. And Abraham will call the name of that place, Jehovah will see: which shall be said to this day, Jehovah will see in the mountain

And he will refuse, and will say to his lord's wife, Behold, my lord knew not what is with me in the house, and all which is to him he gave into my hand; Nothing is great in this house above me: and he kept not back anything from me except thee, because thou his wife: and how shall I do this great evil and sin before God? And it will be in her speaking to Joseph day by day, and he listened not to her to he by her, to be with her.read more.
And it will be about this day, and he will come into the house to do his work: and no man from the men of the house there in the house. And she will seize him by his garment, saying, Lie with me. And he will let go his garment in her hand, and will flee and come forth without

And Uriah will say to David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, dwell in tents; and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are encamping upon the face of the field; and shall I come into my house to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? Thee living and thy soul living, if I shall do this word. And David will say to Uriah, Dwell here also this day, and to-morrow I will send thee away. And Uriah dwelt in Jerusalem in that day and from the morrow. And David will call for him, and he will eat before him and drink; and he will make him drunk: and he will go forth in the evening to lie upon his bed with the servants of his lord; and he will not go down to his house.

And Daniel will set up upon his heart that he will not be defiled with the dainties of the king, and with the wine of his drinking: and he will seek from the chief of the eunuchs that he shall not defile himself.

Wherefore, if food offend my brother, I will eat no flesh forever, lest I shall offend my brother.

And if thine eye give thee cause of offence, take it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members be destroyed, and not thy whole body be cast into hell.

And if thine eye offend thee, cast it out: it is good for thee, one eyed, to come into the kingdom of God, than having two eyes to be cast into a hell of fire:

And they of Christ have crucified the flesh with the passions and desires.

Do ye not know that they running in a race-course, all truly run, and one receives the prize of combat? Do ye so run, that ye might receive.

I pursue toward the scope for the prize of combat of the calling above of God in Christ Jesus.

Let none condemn you being willing in humility and religious worship of angels, going into what he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

For what our hope, or joy, or crown of boasting? Are not also ye before our Lord Jesus Christ in his arrival?

As to the rest, the crown of justice is laid up for me, which the Lord will assign to me in that day, the just judge: and not only to me, but also to all them having loved his appearance.

Happy the man who endures temptation: for being tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to them loving him.

And the chief Shepherd having been manifested, ye shall be attired with an unfading crown of glory.

Neither be afraid of what things thou art about to suffer: behold, the accuser is about to cast of you into prison, that ye might be tried; and ye shall have pressure ten days: be thou faithful until death, and I will give thee the crown of life.

Behold, I come swiftly: hold what thou hast, that none take thy crown.