The best Bible verses for self control (MSG) include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for self control (MSG), each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"We're being shown how to turn our backs on a godless, indulgent life, and how to take on a God-filled, God-honoring life. This new life is starting right now,"Titus 2:12
"We're being shown how to turn our backs on a godless, indulgent life, and how to take on a God-filled, God-honoring life. This new life is starting right now,"Titus 2:12
"but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle, gracious kind that God delights in."1 Peter 3:4
"Don't lie to one another. You're done with that old life. It's like a filthy set of ill-fitting clothes you've stripped off and put in the fire."Colossians 3:9
"Now you're dressed in a new wardrobe. Every item of your new way of life is custom-made by the Creator, with his label on it. All the old fashions are now obsolete."Colossians 3:10
"Mean-spirited ambition isn't wisdom. Boasting that you are wise isn't wisdom. Twisting the truth to make yourselves sound wise isn't wisdom."James 3:14
"Whenever you're trying to look better than others or get the better of others, things fall apart and everyone ends up at the others' throats."James 3:16
""You're hopeless, you religion scholars and Pharisees! Frauds! You burnish the surface of your cups and bowls so they sparkle in the sun, while the insides are maggoty with your greed and gluttony."Matthew 23:25
"The others, now that I'm out of the picture, are merely greedy, hoping to get something out of it for themselves. Their motives are bad. They see me as their competition, and so the worse it goes for me, the better—they think—for them."Philippians 1:17
"Don't push your way to the front; don't sweet-talk your way to the top. Put yourself aside, and help others get ahead."Philippians 2:3
"but to those who insist on getting their own way and take the path of least resistance, Fire!"Romans 2:8
"Could it be any clearer? Our old way of life was nailed to the Cross with Christ, a decisive end to that sin-miserable life—no longer at sin's every beck and call! What we believe is this:"Romans 6:6
Translations differ in what they optimise for. Some follow the original wording closely at the cost of a natural English sentence; others read smoothly and make interpretive choices to get there. Neither is wrong, but they produce noticeably different verses.
Each of the 15 verses below is shown in the translation you asked for, and every verse links to a page comparing all six side by side — which is usually the fastest way to see where the translators disagreed.
Receive a curated verse every morning — no spam, unsubscribe anytime.
The most-cited Bible verses for self control (MSG) are Titus 2:12, 1 Peter 3:4, 2 Corinthians 11:17. 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 (MSG) 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 (MSG), chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.