Bible verses about "self-control" | Riverside

¹ I BEG you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living and holy sacrifice, pleasing to God — your rational worship. ² Do not follow the fashions of this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your minds so as to recognize what is the good and pleasing and perfect will of God.

¹¹ For the grace of God has appeared bringing salvation to all men, ¹² teaching us to renounce all irreligion and worldly passions and to live soberly, justly and piously in this present world, ¹³ waiting for the blessed hope, the glorious appearing of the great God and of our Savior Christ Jesus, ¹⁴ who gave himself for us to redeem us from all sin and purify us as his own people earnest in honorable work.

⁸ but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, just, holy, temperate,

⁸ Be sober, watch. Your enemy the Devil, like a roaring lion, goes about seeking some one to devour.

¹² teaching us to renounce all irreligion and worldly passions and to live soberly, justly and piously in this present world,

⁷ The end of all things is near. Therefore be serious and sober and give yourselves to prayer.

²⁷ On the contrary, I maul and master my body so that I may not, after preaching to others, become myself unable to stand the test.

²⁴ Do you not know that those who run in a stadium all run, yet one gets the prize? Run so as to win. ²⁵ Every one who contends in the games practices self-restraint in all things. They do it to win a fading crown, but we for an unfading one. ²⁶ Thus I run with no uncertain goal: thus I strike, not as if pounding the air. ²⁷ On the contrary, I maul and master my body so that I may not, after preaching to others, become myself unable to stand the test.

⁵ for this very reason make it your whole endeavor to supply to your faith virtue, and to your virtue knowledge, ⁶ and to your knowledge self-control, and to your self-control endurance, and to your endurance reverence, ⁷ and to your reverence brotherliness, and to your brotherliness love.

⁷ For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and love and self-control.

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, slowness to anger, kindness, benevolence, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law.

¹³ No trial has taken you but what belongs to human nature. God is faithful and he will not let you be tried beyond your power, but will make, with the trial, a way of escape so that you can endure it.