32 Bible Verses about Self Control

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, self-control. Against such there is no law.

For the grace of God, which brings salvation to all men, has appeared, teaching us, that denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in the present age;

A bishop, then, must be blame less, the husband of one wife, watchful, soberminded, modest, hospitable, able to teach,

but hospitable, a lover of goodness, sober-minded, just, holy, temperate,

that the aged men be vigilant, grave, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

so, even for this very purpose, uniting to these things all diligence, add to your faith, virtue; and to virtue, knowledge; and to knowledge, temperance; and to temperance, patience; and to patience, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.read more.
For if these things be in you, and abound, they cause you to be neither idle, nor unfruitful as it respects the acknowledgment of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he who is wanting in these things is blind, and closes his eyes, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.

I, therefore, so run, not as with uncertainty; I so aim my blows, not as one that beats the air; but I put my body under severe discipline, and bring it into subjection, lest, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

But if any man thinks he would treat his virgin daughter amiss, should she pass the bloom of life, and it is necessary that it should be so, let him do as he pleases, he does not sin; let them (the suitor and the daughter) marry. But he that stands firm in his purpose, having no necessity to give his daughter in marriage, but has liberty with respect to his own will, and has thus decided in his own heart, that he will keep his daughter a virgin, does well. So then, even he that gives her in marriage, does well; but he that gives her not in marriage, does better.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you keep yourselves from lewdness; That each one of you know how to keep his vessel in sanctification and in honor, not in passionate desire, as the Gentiles do, who know not God;read more.
That no one take advantage of or injure his brother in this matter; because the Lord takes vengeance for all such things, as we also told you before, and fully testified: for God has not called us for uncleanness, but for holiness.

Wherefore, gird up the loins of your mind; be watchful, and hope constantly for the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ:

Therefore, let us not sleep, as do others, but let us watch and be sober. For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunken, are drunken in the night. But let us, who are of the day, be sober, having on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation:

But the end of all things is at hand; be sober-minded, therefore, and watchful, that you may pray.

Be sober, be watchful: for your adversary, the devil, like a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour.

So, then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.

My brethren, be not many teachers, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. For in many things we all offend. If any one offends not in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body. Behold, we put bits into horses mouths that they may obey us, and we turn about their whole body.read more.
Behold also the ships, which are very great, and are driven by violent winds; yet they are turned about by a very small helm, to whatever point the will of him that directs it may determine. So, also, the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how great a forest does a little fire set in a blaze. And the tongue is a fire, the world of iniquity. So is the tongue placed among our members, defiling the whole body, setting on fire the course of life, and being set on fire by hell. For every kind of beasts and of birds, of creeping things and of things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by man: but the tongue no man can tame; it is an unruly evil; it is full of deadly poison. With it we bless God, even the Father: and with it we curse men, who are made in the likeness of God. Out of the same mouth come forth blessing and cursing. These things, my brethren, ought not so to be. Does a fountain send forth from the same cavern sweet water and bitter? Can the fig-tree, my brethren, bear olives, or the vine, figs? So no fountain can produce salt water and fresh.

But I say to you, Resist not the injurious. But whoever will smite you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also. And to him that will go to law with you, and take away your coat, give your mantle also.

But I say to you that hear: Love your enemies; do good to them that hate you; bless them that curse you; pray for them that abuse you. To him that strikes you on one cheek, offer also the other; and from him that takes away your mantle, withhold not your coat.

Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the perverse. For this is praiseworthy, if any one, on account of conscience to ward God, endure sorrows, suffering unjustly. For what praise is due, if, when you are punished for your faults, you endure it patiently? But if, when you do well, and suffer for it, you endure it patiently, this is praiseworthy in the- sight of God.read more.
To this, indeed, you have been called; because even Christ suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his footsteps. He did no sin, nor was guile found in his mouth. When he was reviled, he did not revile again; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but committed himself to him that judges righteously.

But he was silent, and made no answer. Again, the chief priest asked him, and said to him: Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?

Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the palace, and brought together to him the whole band. And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet cloak; and when they had plaited a crown of thorn branches, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand; and kneeling before him, they derided him, saying: Hail, King of the Jews!read more.
And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and struck him on the head.

and labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when defamed, we entreat; we have become like the outcasts of the world, the offscouring of all things to this day.

Know you not that all the runners in the race-course run the race, but that one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain the prize. Every combatant in the public games is temperate in all things: they, indeed, that they may obtain a corruptible, but we, that we may obtain an incorruptible crown. I, therefore, so run, not as with uncertainty; I so aim my blows, not as one that beats the air;read more.
but I put my body under severe discipline, and bring it into subjection, lest, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and the judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered: For the present withdraw; when I have a convenient season, I will call for you.

For which reason God delivered them up, in the desires of their hearts, to uncleanness, that they might dishonor their bodies among themselves; who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. For this reason, God delivered them over to vile passions: for their females exchanged their natural use for that which is against nature:read more.
and in like manner also the males, leaving the natural use of the females, burned in their lusts one toward another, males with males practicing infamous lewdness, and receiving in them selves the due reward of their error. And as they refused to acknowledge God, God delivered them up to an undiscerning mind, to do detestable things; as they were filled with all unrighteousness, lewdness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity; whisperers, evil-speakers, haters of God, insolent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents; without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful;

Debar not one another, unless by agreement for a time, that you may have leisure for prayer; and come together again, lest Satan tempt you through your incontinence.

But if they can not be continent, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

and these have a show of wisdom in will-worship and affected humility and neglect of the body, and in no regard for the gratification of the flesh.

But these men, like beasts with out reason, which follow the instinct of nature, and are made to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil of things that they understand not, shall utterly perish in their own corruption, and receive the reward of unrighteousness. Counting it a pleasure to riot in the day-time, they are spots and stains, rioting in their delusions, while feasting with you; having eyes that are full of the adulteress, and that can not cease from sin, deceiving unstable souls, having a heart exercised in covetousness, accursed children,

Therefore, let not sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey it;

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness,

He that overcomes, shall inherit these things, and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

and the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets;