32 Bible Verses about Self Control

But the fruit of the Spirit is divine love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, meekness, holiness; against such things there is no law.

For the grace of God, that brings salvation to all men, has appeared, teaching us, that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we must live prudently and righteously and holily in this present age;

Therefore it behooves the bishop to be blameless, the husband of one wife, modest, prudent, orderly, hospitable, competent to teach,

but hospitable, loving the good, prudent, righteous, holy, temperate;

That the elderly men be sober, grave, prudent, sound in faith, in divine love, in patience:

And in harmony with this same thing also, add to your faith heroism; and to heroism, knowledge; and to knowledge holiness; and to holiness patience; and patience, godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness divine love.read more.
For these things, being in you and overflowing, render you neither barren nor unfruitful in the perfect knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ; for he unto whom these things are not present is blind, not seeing afar off, having received the forgetfulness of his purgation from his old sins.

I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, do I thus fight not as beating the air: but I keep my body under, and enslave it, lest having preached the gospel to others, I myself may become disapproved.

But if any one considers that he is acting indiscreetly towards his virgin, if she may be marriageable, and thus it ought so to be, let him do what he wishes; he does not sin; let them marry. But whosoever stands firm in his heart, having no necessity, and has the right according to his own will, and has determined this in his heart, to keep his virgin, will do well. So indeed he that marries his own virgin does well; and he that marries her not will do better.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you abstain from fornication; that each one of you know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor, not in the passion of lust, as indeed the Gentiles who do not know God;read more.
that one should overreach and defraud his brother in a business transaction: because the Lord is the avenger concerning these things, as we indeed before told you and witnessed to you. For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in sanctification.

Therefore having girded up the loins of your minds, being perfectly sober, hope unto the grace which is conferred on you in the revelation of Jesus Christ.

then therefore let us not sleep like the rest, but watch and be sober. For those sleeping, sleep in the night; and those who are drunken, get drunk in the night: but let us, who are of the day, be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and divine love; and the helmet, the hope of salvation:

But the end of all things is at hand. Therefore be prudent, and sober unto prayers:

Be sober, watch. The devil is walking round like a roaring lion, seeking some one to devour:

Know, my beloved brethren; but let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow toward wrath:

Be ye not many teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive the greater judgment. For we all fail in many things; if any one fails not in word, the same is a perfect man, able even to bridle the whole body. But if we put bridles into the mouths of the horses, that they may obey us; and we manage their whole body;read more.
behold also the ships, being so great, and driven by fierce winds, are managed by the smallest rudder, whithersoever the will of the steersman prefers; so also the tongue is a little member, and it boasts great things. Behold, how great a wood a little fire kindles! The tongue, a fire, the world of iniquity: the tongue sits down in the midst of our members, and corrupting the whole body, and setting on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire from hell. For every nature both of wild beasts, and of birds, and of creeping things, and of oceanic animals, is subdued, and has been subjugated to human nature: but no one of men is able to tame the tongue; an incorrigible evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless the Lord, even the Father; and with it we scold the people, who have been made after the image of God: out of the same mouth come forth blessing and scolding. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. Whether does the fountain out of the same chink send forth sweet water and bitter? My brethren, whether is the fig-tree able to produce olives, or the vine figs? Neither is the bitter fountain able to produce sweet water.

But I say unto you, Resist not him that is evil: but whosoever smites thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also: to him wishing to prosecute thee at law, and take away thy coat, let him have the cloak also.

But I say unto you that hear, Love your enemies with divine love, and do good to those that hate you, bless those who curse you, and pray for those who despitefully use you. To the one smiting thee on the cheek turn the other also; and from the one taking away thy cloak do not withhold even the coat.

Servants, be submissive to your masters with all reverence; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked. For this is grace, if, through the conscience of God, one bears sorrows and suffering unjustly. For what glory is there, if, committing sin and being buffeted, you endure it? But if, doing good and suffering you endure it, this is grace with God.read more.
For unto this you have been called: because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you may follow in his steps: who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth, who, being reviled, reviled not again; suffering, he threatened not, but gave up to the one judging righteously:

And He was silent, and answered nothing: again the high priest asked Him, and says to Him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?

Then the soldiers of the governor taking Jesus into the judgment hall, gathered to Him the whole band. And having divested Him, put on Him a scarlet robe: and plaiting a crown of thorns put it on His head, and a reed in His right hand; and bowing the knee to Him, continued to mock Him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!read more.
And spitting on Him, they took the reed and struck Him on the head repeatedly.

and we toil working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure it; being scandalized, we entreat: we have become as the offscourings of the world, the refuse of all things until now.

Do you not know that those running in the stadium, indeed all run, and one receives the prize? So run, that you may receive it. But every one contesting is abstinent in all things, they indeed also that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, do I thus fight not as beating the air:read more.
but I keep my body under, and enslave it, lest having preached the gospel to others, I myself may become disapproved.

And he reasoning concerning righteousness and temperance and the coming judgment, Felix, being alarmed, responded, Go thy way for this time; and having received an opportunity, I will call for thee:

Therefore God gave them up, in the lusts of their hearts, to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves: who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for evermore: amen. On account of this God gave them up to the lusts of dishonor: for indeed their women changed the natural use to that which is against nature:read more.
likewise also the men, having left the natural use of the woman, burned in their desire towards one another; men with men working out disgrace, and receiving the reward of their error among themselves which it behooved. And as they did not approve to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are inappropriate; being filled with all injustice, wickedness, vice, covetousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceitfulness, evil affection; whisperers, calumniators, haters of God, insulters, proud, arrogant, practitioners of evils, disobedient to parents, covenant-breakers, incontinent, without natural affections, unmerciful,

Do not defraud one another, unless it may be with consent for a time, that you may give attention to prayer, and again come together, in order that Satan may not tempt you on account of your incontinency.

but if they do not contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

Which indeed are having a word of wisdom in will worship, and humiliation, and austerity of the body; not in any value against the indulgence of the flesh.

But these, like irrational animals having been born naturally for capture and destruction, blaspheming those things in which they are ignorant; in their own corruption they will indeed corrupt themselves; receiving the reward of unrighteousness, esteeming pleasure which is in the daytime; luxury; spots and blemishes, swelling in their deceits, feasting along with you, having eyes full of an adulteress, and unable to cease from sin; beguiling unestablished souls: having a heart which has been made fat with covetousness; children of the curse:

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body that you should obey the lusts of it:

But the fruit of the Spirit is divine love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

The one conquering shall inherit all things; and I will be to him God, and he shall be to me a son.

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