The best Bible verses for self control for tattoos include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for self control for tattoos, each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law."Galatians 5:23
"Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour."1 Peter 5:8
"and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness."Ephesians 4:24
"The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace;"Romans 8:6
"It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs."1 Corinthians 13:5
"You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;"Ephesians 4:22
"idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions"Galatians 5:20
"The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear minded and self-controlled so that you can pray."1 Peter 4:7
"So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be alert and self-controlled."1 Thessalonians 5:6
"Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,"1 Timothy 3:2
"and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness;"2 Peter 1:6
"without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,"2 Timothy 3:3
Length decides almost everything here. A verse that reads beautifully on a page can be unreadable once it is set in a small typeface, wrapped around a curve, or cropped to a square. The 15 verses below were chosen for brevity first — most run under a dozen words — so they stay legible at the size you will actually use them.
Self-contained meaning matters just as much. "Do not be anxious about anything" carries its full sense alone; a verse that opens with "Therefore" or "But" does not, and it will read as a fragment to anyone who encounters it without the surrounding passage. Every verse here stands on its own.
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The most-cited Bible verses for self control for tattoos are Galatians 5:23, 1 Peter 5:8, Ephesians 4:24. This page collects 15 of them, each with its full passage, context and the text in six translations.
Read the verse in its surrounding passage before you use it — a verse that fits in isolation sometimes says something different in context. Compare two translations where the wording is unclear, and pick for the person who will read it rather than for the theme.
Scripture returns to self control for tattoos across both testaments rather than settling it in one passage, which is why the verses on this page do not all say the same thing. Read together they give a fuller answer than any single verse does.
There is no single best translation. The NIV and NLT read most naturally and communicate well to someone outside the church; the ESV and NASB stay closer to the original wording; the KJV carries the phrasing most people recognise. Every verse here links to a page showing all six side by side.
More than any page can list. This one carries the 15 that are most often turned to for self control for tattoos, chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.