'Control' in the Bible

Now as he spoke about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix became afraid and replied, “Leave for now, but when I find time I’ll call for you.”

After running under the shelter of a little island called Cauda, we were barely able to get control of the skiff.

“Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is helpful. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be brought under the control of anything.

Do not deprive one another sexually—except when you agree for a time, to devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again; otherwise, Satan may tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

But if they do not have self-control, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with desire.

But he who stands firm in his heart (who is under no compulsion, but has control over his own will) and has decided in his heart to keep his own virgin, will do well.

Now everyone who competes exercises self-control in everything. However, they do it to receive a crown that will fade away, but we a crown that will never fade away.

Instead, I discipline my body and bring it under strict control, so that after preaching to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

And the prophets’ spirits are under the control of the prophets,

I do not mean that we have control of your faith, but we are workers with you for your joy, because you stand by faith. >

gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law.

And let the peace of the Messiah, to which you were also called in one body, control your hearts. Be thankful.

one who manages his own household competently, having his children under control with all dignity.

unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, without love for what is good,

for we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a mature man who is also able to control his whole body.

knowledge with self-control, self-control with endurance, endurance with godliness,