32 Bible Verses about Self Control

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

For the grace of God that pertains to salvation appeared to all men, teaching us, that denying impiety and worldly desires we should live soberly, and righteously, and piously in the present life,

It is necessary therefore that a bishop should be blameless, a husband of one wife, circumspect, sober, well-behaved, hospitable, apt to teach,

but a lover of hospitality, kind, sober, just, holy, self-denying,

That the aged men be sober, grave, of sound mind, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

and for the same purpose also, giving all diligence add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge, and to knowledge temperance, and to temperance patience, and to patience piety, and to piety brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.read more.
For if these are in you and abound, they will make you not inactive nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ; for a man that is without these is blind, not seeing to a distance, and has forgotten the purification from his former errors.

I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, and so strike, not as one who beats the air; but I brow-beat my body, and bring it into subjection, lest having preached to others I should myself be a reprobate.

But if any one thinks that he behaves improperly to his virgin, if she is past her prime, and it must be so, let him do what he wishes; he does not sin; let them marry. But he that stands firm in mind, not having a necessity, but has power over his will, and has determined in his mind to keep his virgin, does well. He that gives in marriage therefore does well, and he that gives not in marriage does better.

For this is the will of God, your purity, that you should abstain from fornication, that each one should know how to have his wife in purity and honor, not with inordinate desires like the gentiles who know not God,read more.
that he should not go beyond and defraud his brother in the matter, because the Lord is a punisher of all these, as we also told you before and fully testified. For God has not called us to impurity, but to purity.

Wherefore, girding up the loins of your minds, be sober, and hope to the end for the gift to be brought to you by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Therefore let us not sleep as others, but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night, and they that are drunk drink in the night; but let us who are of day be sober, putting on a cuirass of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation,

But the end of all things is at hand. Be sober therefore, and watch in prayers;

Be sober, be watchful. Your adversary the devil goes about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour;

Understand, my beloved brothers, and let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

BE not many of you teachers, my brothers, knowing that we shall receive a severer judgment. For in many things we all offend; if one offends not in word he is a perfect man, able to keep in subjection also the whole body. But we put bits into the mouths of horses that they may obey us, and direct their whole body;read more.
behold also the ships, though of so great size and driven by powerful winds, are directed by a very small helm wherever the will of the pilot chooses; so also the tongue is a small member and boasts of great things. Behold, how much wood a little fire kindles! And the tongue is a fire, the tongue is made a world of wickedness among our members, it defiles the whole body and sets on fire the course of nature and is set on fire by hell. For every kind of beasts, and birds, and reptiles, and fishes, is tamed and has been tamed by the human race, but the tongue can no man tame; it is a disorderly evil, full of a deadly poison. With it bless we the Lord and Father, and with it curse we men made in the likeness of God. Out of the same mouth proceeds a blessing and a curse. My brothers, these things ought not so to be. Does a fountain send forth sweet water and bitter from the same opening? Can a fig tree, my brothers, produce olives, or a vine, figs? So you cannot make salt water sweet.

But I tell you not to resist the evil man; but whoever shall strike you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also; and if a man wishes to have a law suit with you, and take away your coat, let him have your cloak also;

But I tell you that hear, Love your enemies; do good to those that hate you; bless those that curse you; pray for those that injure you; to him that strikes you on the cheek, present also the other; and forbid not him who takes away your cloak to take your coat also.

Let servants be subject with all fear to masters, not only to the good and gentle but also to the perverse. For this deserves thanks, if on account of a knowledge of God one endures pain, suffering unjustly. For what glory is it if when you sin and are punished you bear it patiently? But if you do well and suffer and bear it patiently, [this deserves thanks], for it is acceptable to God.read more.
For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you a copy that you should follow his steps, who committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth, who being reviled reviled not, suffering threatened not, but committed himself to him that judges righteously,

And he was silent, and answered nothing. Again the chief priest asked him, and said to him, Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?

THEN the soldiers of the procurator taking Jesus to the Praetorium assembled about him the whole cohort, and stripped him, and put on him a crimson cloak, and making a crown of thorns they put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they knelt before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!read more.
And they spit on him, and took the reed and beat him on his head.

and labor, working with our hands; being reviled we bless, being persecuted we endure, being defamed we entreat; we are made like the offscouring of the world and the vilest of all things, even till now.

Know you not that those who run in the race all indeed run, but one takes the prize. So run that you may obtain. And every one that contends in the games is temperate in all things, they indeed to obtain a perishable crown, we an imperishable. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, and so strike, not as one who beats the air;read more.
but I brow-beat my body, and bring it into subjection, lest having preached to others I should myself be a reprobate.

And as he discoursed of righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment about to come, Felix being terrified answered, Go for the present; but when I have time I will call you.

Wherefore God also gave them up with the desires of their hearts to impurity, to disgrace their bodies among themselves, who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creation more than the Creator, who is blessed forever, amen. Therefore God gave them up to infamous affections; for their females changed a natural enjoyment for that which is against nature,read more.
and in like manner also the males, leaving the natural enjoyment of the female, became the subjects of inordinate desires for each other, males with males committing indecency, and receiving in return the recompense of their error which was fit. And as they did not choose to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do things which are not proper, being filled with all wickedness, malice, covetousness, vice, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions, whisperers, evil speakers, haters of God, injurious, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, unintelligent, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, unmerciful,

Withhold not yourselves from one another, except by agreement for a time that you may be at leisure for prayer, and come together again, that Satan may not tempt you by your incontinence.

but if they have not self-control, let them marry; it is better to marry than to be incontinent.

Which have an appearance of wisdom in voluntary worship and humiliation, and in a rigorous treatment of the body, [which is held] in no respect for the surfeiting of the flesh.

but these, like irrational animals, brutes made to be taken and destroyed, reviling things which they do not understand, will also be destroyed in their depravity, receiving the wages of wickedness, accounting luxury in the day-time a pleasure, spots and blemishes, revelling in their deceptions while feasting with you, having eyes full of an adulteress, and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart exercised in covetousness, cursed children,

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to obey its desires,

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

He that conquers shall inherit these things, and I will be to him a God and he shall be to me a son.

And the spirits of prophets are subject to the prophets;