42 Bible Verses about Self Discipline

but avoid profane and silly myths; exercise yourself in piety;

but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for desires of the flesh.

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 be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and put on the new man, created after God in righteousness and true holiness.

Not that I have already obtained it, or have been already made perfect; but I follow on that I may attain that for which also I was arrested by Christ. I consider not myself, brothers, to have attained it; but this one thing I do; forgetting the things behind, and reaching forward to those before, I press forward to the mark for the prize of the high call of God in Christ Jesus.

Put on, therefore, as elect and beloved saints of God, hearts of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering,

For God gave us not a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

but solid food is for the perfect, having their perceptive faculties exercised by practice to distinguish both good and evil.

Therefore also we, having so great a cloud of witnesses lying around us, laying aside every impediment and sin which entirely surrounds us, let us run with patience the race set before us,

All Scripture is divinely inspired and is profitable for instruction, for conviction, for correction, for education in righteousnes, that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly fitted for every good work.

teaching us, that denying impiety and worldly desires we should live soberly, and righteously, and piously in the present life,

And not only [this], but we rejoice also in afflictions, knowing that affliction works out patience, and patience, experience, and experience, hope; and the hope makes not ashamed, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit given us.

destroying [false] reasonings and every height which is exalted against the knowledge of God, and subjecting every thought to the obedience of Christ,

For I say through the grace given me, to every one among you, not to be higher-minded than he ought to be, but to think soberly, as God has distributed to each the measure of faith.

and be not conformed to this life, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind, that you may prove what is the will of God which is good and well-pleasing and perfect.

and be renewed in the spirit of your minds,

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

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; 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;read more.
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.

On account of food destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure, but evil is to the man that eats with offense; it is good not to eat meat nor drink wine, nor [do] any thing by which your brother stumbles.

but I brow-beat my body, and bring it into subjection, lest having preached to others I should myself be a reprobate.

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to obey its desires, neither present your members as instruments of wickedness to sin, but present yourselves to God as living from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die; but if by the spirit you kill the deeds of the body, you shall live.

that you should lay aside your former mode of life the old man destroyed by deceitful desires,

Put to death, therefore, your members which are on the earth, fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness which is idolatry,

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.

For if we judged ourselves we should not be judged; but being judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

for bodily exercise profits little; but piety is profitable in all things, having a promise of the present life and of the life to come.

And every one that contends in the games is temperate in all things, they indeed to obtain a perishable crown, we an imperishable.

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

Wherefore, if food offends my brother, I will eat no meat forever, that I may not offend my brother.

But if your right eye offends you, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is better for you that one of your members should perish, and not that your whole body should be cast into hell.

And if your eye offends you, pluck it out; it is better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell,

And the [subjects] of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its affections and desires.

Know you not that those who run in the race all indeed run, but one takes the prize. So run that you may obtain.

I press forward to the mark for the prize of the high call of God in Christ Jesus.

Let no one wishing [it] deprive you of your reward by humility and a worship of angels, intruding into what he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his carnal mind,

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Is it not even you before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge will give me in that day, and not me only but all who love his appearing.

Blessed is the man who endures trial, for when proved he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

and when the chief shepherd shall appear, you shall receive an unfading crown of glory.

Fear not what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, that you may be tried, and you shall have affliction ten days. Be faithful till death, and I will give you the crown of life.

I come quickly; keep what you have, that no man may take your crown.