The best Bible verses for self control for today include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for self control for today, each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"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
"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
"and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness."Ephesians 4:24
"idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions"Galatians 5:20
"The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace;"Romans 8:6
"You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ."Romans 8:9
"Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed."1 Peter 1:13
"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
"But since we belong to the day, let us be self-controlled, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet."1 Thessalonians 5:8
"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
"Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control."1 Corinthians 7:5
A verse used for self control for today works differently from one you read once. It gets returned to, repeated, and sat with — so it needs enough depth to reward a second and tenth reading, and enough clarity that you are not decoding it every time.
The 15 passages here hold up to repetition. Each is short enough to carry from memory and substantial enough that it does not wear out.
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The most-cited Bible verses for self control for today are Ephesians 4:22, Ephesians 4:24, Galatians 5:20. 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 today 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 today, chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.