Bible verses about "self-control" | Living_Oracles

⁸ Be sober, be vigilant: your adversary, the devil, is walking about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour:

¹ Wherefore, brethren, I beseech you, by the tender mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. ² And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind; that you may approve the will of God, which is good, and acceptable, and perfect.

¹¹ For the favor of God, which brings salvation, has appeared to all men; ¹² teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world- ¹³ expecting the blessed hope; namely, the appearing of the glory of the great God, and of our Saviour Jesus Christ; ¹⁴ who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

⁸ but hospitable; a lover of good men, prudent, just, holy, temperate;

¹² teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world-

⁷ Now the end of all things has approached; be, therefore, sober, and watch to prayer.

²⁷ but, I mortify my body, and keep it in subjection; lest, perhaps, having proclaimed to others, I myself should not be accepted.

²⁴ Do you not know that they who run a race, all run, but one only receives the prize? So run, that you may lay hold of the prize? ²⁵ Now, every one who contends is temperate in all things: they, indeed, that they may receive a fading crown; but we, one that does not fade. ²⁶ I, therefore, so run, as not out of view. So I fight, not as beating the air: ²⁷ but, I mortify my body, and keep it in subjection; lest, perhaps, having proclaimed to others, I myself should not be accepted.

⁵ And for this very reason, indeed, giving all diligence, add to your faith, courage; and to courage, knowledge; ⁶ and to knowledge, temperance; and to temperance, patience; and to patience, godliness; ⁷ and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love:

⁷ For God has not given us a spirit of cowardice; but of power, and of love, and of self-government.

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, fidelity, ²³ meekness, temperance: against such things there is no law.

¹³ No trial has come upon you but such as belongs to man; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tried above what you are able, but will, with the trial, also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear.