Self Control

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

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

but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled;

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →

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

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

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

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge; — read the full passage →

Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded;

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.

A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control.

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

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

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

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, — read the full passage →

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

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.

for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God.

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge; — read the full passage →

Like a muddied spring, and a polluted well, so is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. — read the full passage →

Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win. — read the full passage →

Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword. — read the full passage →

so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.

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.

“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’ — read the full passage →

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, — read the full passage →

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

A fool shows his annoyance the same day, but one who overlooks an insult is prudent.

Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.

Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win. — read the full passage →

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge; — read the full passage →

Don’t turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.

Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

A wise man fears, and shuns evil, but the fool is hot headed and reckless.

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world;

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man with Yahweh’s help.” — read the full passage →

Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to battle:

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger; — read the full passage →

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.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

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.

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

without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,

But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

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

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. — read the full passage →

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”

Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’”

God spoke all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

Therefore prepare your minds for action, be sober and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

Jesus answered, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead. — read the full passage →

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh; — read the full passage →

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.

When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered. — read the full passage →

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

Mockers stir up a city, but wise men turn away anger. — read the full passage →

So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people who were with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found. — read the full passage →

“If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it, or sells it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

You therefore must endure hardship, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober. — read the full passage →

Don’t you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying, — read the full passage →

“‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, neither shall you raise up an engraved image or a pillar, neither shall you place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am Yahweh your God. — read the full passage →

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

In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing;

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger; — read the full passage →

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked. — read the full passage →

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.