'Self control' in the Bible

Blessed are you, O land, when your king is the son of nobility, and your princes feast at the proper time -- with self-control and not in drunkenness.

While Paul was discussing righteousness, self-control, and the coming judgment, Felix became frightened and said, "Go away for now, and when I have an opportunity, I will send for you."

Do not deprive each other, except by mutual agreement for a specified time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then resume your relationship, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

But if they do not have self-control, let them get married. For it is better to marry than to burn with sexual desire.

Each competitor must exercise self-control in everything. They do it to receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable one.

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

Likewise the women are to dress in suitable apparel, with modesty and self-control. Their adornment must not be with braided hair and gold or pearls or expensive clothing,

But she will be delivered through childbearing, if she continues in faith and love and holiness with self-control.

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

unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, savage, opposed to what is good,

to knowledge, self-control; to self-control, perseverance; to perseverance, godliness;