Bible Verses About Self-Control

"For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline."

"Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour."

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

"It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs."

"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;"

"and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness."

"idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions"

"The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace;"

"Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God."

"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."

"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."

"The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear minded and self-controlled so that you can pray."

"So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be alert and self-controlled."

"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."

"Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,"

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

"without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,"

"Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who lacks self-control."

"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."

"But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion."

"The spirits of prophets are subject to the control of prophets."

"We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one."

"Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight."

"that each of you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable,"

"In this self-confident boasting I am not talking as the Lord would, but as a fool."