Bible Verses about
SELF-CONTROL
Proverbs 25:28 ESV
A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.
1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 1,381 helpful votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 1,213 helpful votes
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
2 Peter 1:5-7 ESV / 1,017 helpful votes
For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.
Proverbs 16:32 ESV / 961 helpful votes
Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.
1 Corinthians 9:24-27 ESV / 912 helpful votes
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
1 Corinthians 9:27 ESV / 883 helpful votes
But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
1 Peter 4:7 ESV / 730 helpful votes
The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers.
