53 Bible Verses about Self Control

The foolish one will bring forth all his spirit; and the wise one will restrain it back.

Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel; To know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding; To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice and judgment, and uprightness;read more.
To give craftiness to the simple, and to the youth, knowledge and meditation. The wise one will hear and he will add learning: and he understanding, shall obtain guidance:

And the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such is no law.

For the grace of God who saves, was manifested to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and eager worldly desires, we should live discreetly, and justly, and religiously, in the time now;

Therefore an overseer must be irreprehensible, husband of one wife, sober, of sound mind, well arranged, hospitable, giving instruction;

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

The aged men to be sober, grave, of sound mind, sound in the faith, in love, in patience.

And also this same, having brought in at the side all earnestness, furnish in addition in your faith fitness; and In fitness knowledge; And in knowledge self-control; and in self-control patience; and in patience devotion; And in devotion brotherly love; and in brotherly love, love.read more.
For these being to you, and abounding, they establish you not without effort, neither unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For in whom these are not present, he is blind, being affected with shortness of sight, having taken 2Peter 1:forgetfulness of the cleansing formerly of his sins.

I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so practise I pugilism, as not laying stripes upon air: But I give my body a blow under the eyes, and reduce to bondage: lest having proclaimed to others, I myself be rejected.

And if any think to act unbecomingly towards his virgin, if she be past the vigor of youth, and so it ought to be, let him do what he will, he sins not; let them marry. And he who has stood firmly fixed in heart; not having necessity, and has power concerning his own will, and has judged this in his heart to keep his virgin, does well. So that he marrying does well; and he not marrying does better.

For this is the will of God, your consecration, that ye should keep away from fornication: For each of you to know how to possess his vessel in consecration and honour; Not in the passion of eager desire, as also the nations not knowing God:read more.
Not to pass over and have the advantage over his brother in business: because the Lord just for all these, as we told you before and testified. But God has not called you to uncleanness, but in consecration.

Wherefore having girded up the loins of your mind, living abstemiously, hope perfectly upon the grace brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ;

Therefore let us not sleep, as also the rest; but let us watch and be sober. For they sleeping sleep in the night; and they drunken are drunken in the night. And we, being of the day, let us be sober, putting on the coat of mail of faith and love; and a helmet, the hope of salvation.

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

Be abstemious, watch; for your adversary the accuser, as a roaring lion, walks around, seeking whom he might swallow down:

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

Wherefore, my dearly beloved brethren, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger:

Thou didst try my heart; thou didst review the night; thou didst refine me, thou wilt find nothing: I purposed, my mouth shall not pass by.

The heart of the wise shall attend to his mouth, and he shall add knowledge to his lips.

He watching his mouth and his tongue watches his soul from straits.

Be ye not many teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive the greater judgment. 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.read more.
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. 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.

But I say to you not to resist evil: but whosoever shall smite thee with a rod upon thy right cheek, turn to him also the other. And to him wishing to be judged with thee, and to take thy coat, let go to him also thy garment.

But I say to you hearing, Love your enemies; do good to those hating you, Praise those cursing you, and pray for those threatening you. To him striking thee upon the cheek hold also near the other; and from him taking away thy garments, and thou shouldest not retrench thy coat.

Servants being subjected to masters in all fear; not only to the good and equitable, but also to the crooked. For this is grace, if any by consciousness of God bear grief, suffering unjustly. For what glory, if, sinning and being cuffed, ye endure? but if, doing good, and suffering, ye endure, this is grace with God.read more.
For to this were ye called: for also Christ suffered for you, leaving behind to you an underwriting, that ye should follow upon his footsteps: Who did no sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth: Who, being reviled, reviled not back; suffering, he threatened not; and delivered to him judging justly;

And it will be after these words, and his lord's wife will lift up her eyes to Joseph, and she will say, Lie with me. 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?read more.
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. 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 it will be when Saul turned back from after the rovers, and they will announce to him, saying, Behold, David in the desert of Engedi. And Saul will take three thousand men chosen from all Israel, and he will go to seek David and his men upon the face of the rocks of the wild goats. And he will come to the sheepfolds upon the way, and there a cave; and Saul will come in to cover his feet: and David and his men dwelling in the sides of the cave.read more.
And David's men will say to him, Behold the day of which Jehovah spake to thee, Behold, I give thine enemy into thy hand, and do to him as it will be good in thine eyes. And David will rise and cut off the wing of the upper garment which is to Saul, secretly. And it will be after this, the heart of David will strike him because that he cut off the wing which is to Saul. And he will say to his men, Far be it to me from Jehovah if I shall do this word to my lord, to the Messiah of Jehovah, to stretch forth my hand against him, for he is the Messiah of Jehovah. And David will divide his men with words, and he gave them not to rise against Saul, and Saul rose up from the cave and went in the way.

And David will come, and Abishai, to the people by night; and behold, Saul lay sleeping in the track, and his spear pressed into the earth at his head: and Abner and the people sleeping round about him. And Abishai will say to David, God shut up this day thine enemy in thy hand: and now, I will strike him now with the spear, and into the earth once, and I will not repeat to him. And David will say to Abishai, Thou shalt not destroy him: for who stretching forth his hand against Jehovah's Messiah, and being innocent?read more.
And David will say, Jehovah lives, for shall not Jehovah strike him? or his day shall come and he died; or he shall go down in the war and perish. Far be it to me from Jehovah stretching forth my hand against Jehovah's Messiah: and now, take now the spear which is at his head, and the cruse of water, and we will go for ourselves. And David will take the spear, and the cruse of water at Saul's head, and they will go for themselves, and none saw and none will know, and none waking: for all of them were sleeping; for a deep sleep of Jehovah fell upon them.

And Abishai son of Zeruiah will say to the king, Wherefore shall this dead dog curse my lord the king? I will pass over now and take away his head. And the king will say, What to me and you ye sons of Zeruiah? for he shall curse, and because Jehovah said to him, Curse David: and who shall say, Wherefore didst thou thus?

I cut out a covenant for mine eyes; and why shall I show myself attentive to a virgin?

He was pressed, and he was afflicted, and he will not open his mouth: he was brought as a sheep for the slaughter, and as a sheep before his shearers being dumb and he will not open his mouth.

And he was silent, and answered nothing. Again the chief priest asks him, and says to him, Art thou Christ, Son of the Praised

Then the soldiers of the leader, having taken Jesus to the Pretorium, gathered together the whole band against him. And having unclothed him, they put round him a scarlet, loose, warm cloak. And having twined a crown of thorns, they put upon, his head: and a reed upon his right hand: and having fallen upon the knees before him, they mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!read more.
And having spit upon him, they took the reed, and struck upon his head.

And we are wearied, working with our own hands: being reviled, we praise; being driven out, we hold up Being defamed, we entreat: as the filth of the world were we become, the offscouring of all until now.

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.

The mouth of the foolish is destruction to him, and his lips the snare of his soul.

Thus said Jehovah to this people, Thus they loved to wander, they restrained not their feet, and Jehovah accepted them not; now will he remember their iniquity and he will review their sin.

And it will be on the morrow, and the evil spirit of God will fall upon Saul, and he will prophesy in the midst of the house: and David playing with his hand as the day to day: and a spear in Saul's hand. And Saul will lift up the spear, and say, I will strike against David into the wall And David will flee from before him twice.

And David will send to Tamar, saying, Go now to the house of Amnon thy brother, and make food for him. And Tamar will go to the house of Amnon her brother, and he lay down. And she will take dough and knead, and make cakes before his eyes, and bake the cakes. And she will take a frying-pan and pour out before him; and he will refuse to eat. And Amnon will say, Bring out every man from me. And they brought forth every man from him.read more.
And Amnon will say to Tamar, Bring the cakes into the chamber, and I will eat from thine hand And Tamar will take the cakes which she made and bring to Amnon her brother into the chamber. And she will bring near to him to eat, and he will lay hold upon her and say, Come lie with me, my sister. And she will say to him, No, my brother, thou shalt not humble me; for so it shall not be done in Israel: thou shalt not do this folly. And I, whither shall I cause my reproach to go? and thou wilt be as one of the foolish in Israel. And now, speak now, to the king, and he will not withhold me from thee. And he would not hear to her voice; and he will be strong above her, and he will humble her and lie with her.

And they will anger him at the water of strife, and it will be evil to Moses on account of them: For they embittered his spirit, and he talked idly with his lips.

My son, if thou becamest surety for thy friend, thou didst strike thy hands for a stranger; Thou wert snared with the sayings of thy mouth, thou wert taken with the sayings of thy mouth. Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself when thou camest into the hand of thy friend; go humble thyself and enlarge thy friend.

In no vision the people shall be unruly: and he watching the law, happy is he.

And he discoursing of justice, and temperance, and judgment about to be, Felix being terrified, answered, Having now, go; having taken time, I will recall thee.

Wherefore God delivered them in the eager desire of their hearts to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies in themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a falsehood, and reverenced and served the creation above him creating, who is praised forever. Amen. Therefore God delivered them to the suffering of ignominy: for also their females changed the natural use into that against generation:read more.
Likewise also males, leaving the natural use of the female, were set on fire in their longing for one another; males with males working deformity, and the retribution which was needed receiving in themselves for their erring. And as they chose not to have God in knowledge, God delivered them to an adulterated purpose, to do things not fitting; Having been filled with all injustice, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, badness; full of envy, slaughter, strife, deceit, malignity, Whisperers, slanderers, odious to God, abusers of power, proud, tumultuous, inventors of injuries, disobedient to parents, Destitute of understanding, unsteady, devoid of natural affection, implacable, merciless:

Deprive ye not one another, except somewhat of an agreement for a time, that ye might have leisure for fasting and prayer; and again upon the same ye might come together, lest Satan tempt you for your want of self command.

And if they have not self command, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to be set on fire.

Which things truly are having the word of wisdom in worship according to one's will, and humility, and prodigality of the body; not in any honour to satisfying the flesh.

But these, as natural irrational living creatures, having been for catching and destroying, defaming in what things they are ignorant of; and shall be destroyed in their corruption; Receiving the reward of injustice, deeming luxurious indulgence pleasure in the day. Spots and blemishes, rioting in their deceits, feasting together with you Having eyes full of an adulteress, not ceasing from sin; decoying unstable souls: having a heart exercised with covetousness; children of a curse:

He guarding his mouth, watched his soul: he opening wide his lips, destruction to him.

Therefore let not sin reign in your mortal body, to listen to it in its passions.

And the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

He slow to anger is, good above the strong; and, he ruling over his spirit above him taking a city,

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

And the spirits of the prophets are subjected to the prophets.