50 Bible Verses About Self-Control

“You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.”

“That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?”

“He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish? He who teaches man knows.”

“In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.”

“The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.”

“By the fruit of his lips, a man enjoys good things; but the unfaithful crave violence.”

“One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.”

“He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.”

“A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.”

“A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.”

“One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.”

“Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.”

“By patience a ruler is persuaded. A soft tongue breaks the bone.”

“Like a city that is broken down and without walls is a man whose spirit is without restraint.”

“For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.”

“Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.””

“covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.”

“Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.””

“You know the commandments: ‘Don’t commit adultery,’ ‘Don’t murder,’ ‘Don’t steal,’ ‘Don’t give false testimony,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’”Exodus 20:12-16; Deuteronomy 5:16-20”

“that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.””

“For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.”

“For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,”TR adds “You shall not give false testimony,” “You shall not covet,” Exodus 20:13-15,17; Deuteronomy 5:17-19,21 and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”Leviticus 19:18”

“Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.”

“Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.”

“Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.”

“but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.”

“No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.”

“For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.”

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,or, faithfulness”

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

“for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,”

“Which things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and severity to the body; but aren’t of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.”

“Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;”

“that each one of you know how to control his own bodyliterally, possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,”

“We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the faint-hearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.”

“But refuse profane and old wives’ fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.”

“But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.”

“For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.”

“Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.”

“But you did follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,”

“that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance:”

“to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.”

“For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.”Proverbs 3:11-12”

“It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?”

“Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.”

“For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn’t stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.”

“Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”

“But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.”

“Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.”

“and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control perseverance; and in perseverance godliness;”