And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I kept my heart from no
pleasure, for my heart found pleasure in all my toil, and this was my reward for all my toil.
11 Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and
behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under
the sun.
~Ecclesiastes 2:10-11 (ESV)
Hear, my son, and be wise,
and direct your heart in the way.
20 Be not among drunkards
or among gluttonous eaters of meat,
21 for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty,
and slumber will clothe them with rags.
~Proverbs 23:19-21
They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice
every kind of impurity.
~Ephesians 4:19
A man without self-control
is like a city broken into and left without walls.
~Proverbs 25:28
A fool gives full vent to his spirit,
but a wise man quietly holds it back.
~Proverbs 29:11
Whoever restrains his words has knowledge,
and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.
28 Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise;
when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.
~Proverbs 17:27-28
Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty,
and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city. ~Proverbs 16:32
Keep your heart with all vigilance,
for from it flow the springs of life.
~Proverbs 4:23
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, 12 training us to
renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly
lives in the present age, 13 waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our
great God and Savior Jesus Christ, 14 who gave himself for us to redeem us from all
lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for
good works.
~Titus 2:11-14
