'Control' in the Bible

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.

For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a slave to everyone, so that I may win more [for Christ].

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,

Let women keep quiet in the churches: for it is not right for them to be talking; but let them be under control, as it says in the law.

and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless and powerless [mere delusion]; you are still in your sins [and under the control and penalty of sin].

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. >

Being ready to give punishment to whatever is against his authority, after you have made it clear that you are completely under his control.

For you tolerate it if anyone makes you his slave; or devours you and your possessions; or takes advantage of you; or acts presumptuously; or hits you in the face.

but he is under the control of guardians and trustees until the time his father has appointed.

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

in which you once walked. You were following the ways of this world [influenced by this present age], in accordance with the prince of the power of the air (Satan), the spirit who is now at work in the disobedient [the unbelieving, who fight against the purposes of God].

For ours is not a conflict with mere flesh and blood, but with the despotisms, the empires, the forces that control and govern this dark world--the spiritual hosts of evil arrayed against us in the heavenly warfare.

For He has rescued us and has drawn us to Himself from the dominion of darkness, and has transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son,

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

Each of you must know how to control his own body in a holy and honorable manner,

And our desire is that you will keep control over those whose lives are not well ordered, giving comfort to the feeble-hearted, supporting those with little strength, and putting up with much from all.

and remembers that a law is not enacted to control a righteous man, but for the lawless and rebellious, the irreligious and sinful, the godless and profane--for those who strike their fathers or their mothers, for murderers,

But if they go on in faith and love and holy self-control, she will be kept safe at the time of childbirth.

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

For God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of self-control.

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

For he did not put the coming world we are talking about under the control of angels.

You put all things under his control." For when he put all things under his control, he left nothing outside of his control. At present we do not yet see all things under his control,

Now when God put everything under him, he left nothing outside his control. However, at the present time we do not yet see everything put under him. But we do see someone who was made a little lower than the angels. He is Jesus, who is crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might experience death for everyone.

If a man seems to have religion and has no control over his tongue but lets himself be tricked by what is false, this man's religion is of no value.

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.

Now if we put bits of iron into horses' mouths so that they may be guided by us, we have complete control of their bodies.

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

and especially those who are abandoned to sensuality--craving, as they do, for polluted things, and scorning control. Fool-hardy and self-willed, they do not tremble when speaking evil of glorious beings;

We know that we are from God and that the whole world lies under the control of the evil one.

He exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence [when the two are together]. And he makes the earth and those who inhabit it worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

People were [severely] burned by the great heat; and they reviled the name of God who has power over these plagues, but they did not repent [of their sin] and glorify Him.

For they are the spirits of demons working marvels--spirits that go out to control the kings of the whole earth, to assemble them for the battle which is to take place on the great day of God, the Ruler of all.

From His mouth comes a sharp sword (His word) with which He may strike down the nations, and He will rule them with a rod of iron; and He will tread the wine press of the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty [in judgment of the rebellious world].