And as he reasoned about morality, self-control, and the future judgment, Felix was terrified, and said, "For the present go on your way, and when I find a convenient season, I will send for you."

Do not refuse one another, unless it is only temporary and by mutual consent, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, lest through your lack of self-control Satan begin to tempt you to sin.

If, however, they are not exercising self-control, by all means let them marry; for marriage is better than the fever of passion.

But the harvest-fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity, gentleness, and self-control;

For God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but a spirit of power and of love and of self-control.

and to knowledge self-control, and to self-control stedfastness, and to stedfastness piety,