Bible verses about Self-Control
Verses about mastering impulses and desires.
Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who does not control his temper.
Proverbs 25:28He who is slow to anger is better than a warrior, and he who controls his temper is greater than one who captures a city.
Proverbs 16:32gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
Galatians 5:23Everyone who competes in the games trains with strict discipline. They do it for a crown that is perishable, but we do it for a crown that is imperishable.
1 Corinthians 9:25No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
1 Corinthians 9:27It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
Titus 2:12For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
2 Timothy 1:7For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith virtue; and to virtue, knowledge;
2 Peter 1:5and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness;
2 Peter 1:6Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
1 Peter 1:13The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear-minded and sober, so that you can pray.
1 Peter 4:7So then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain awake and sober.
1 Thessalonians 5:6But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and the helmet of our hope of salvation.
1 Thessalonians 5:8Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
Romans 13:13Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.
Romans 13:14A fool vents all his anger, but a wise man holds it back.
Proverbs 29:11Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.
Ephesians 5:18“Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be mastered by anything.
1 Corinthians 6:12