'Self 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.”
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.
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.
gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law.
unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, without love for what is good,
knowledge with self-control, self-control with endurance, endurance with godliness,