Verse set: Self-Control§↻

Verses

• Acts 24:16: This is the reason I do my best to always have a clear conscience toward God and toward people.
  
  
• Galatians 2:20: I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So the life I now live in the body, I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
  
  
• Romans 13:14: Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to arouse its desires.
  
  
• Proverbs 25:28: Like a city that is broken down and without a wall, so is a person who cannot control his temper.
  
  
• 1 Corinthians 6:12: "All things are lawful for me" - but not everything is beneficial. "All things are lawful for me" - but I will not be controlled by anything.
  
  
• Proverbs 27:12: A shrewd person sees danger and hides himself, but the naive keep right on going and suffer for it.
  
  
• Hebrews 11:24: By faith, when he grew up, Moses refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter,
  
  
• Hebrews 11:25: choosing rather to be ill-treated with the people of God than to enjoy sin's fleeting pleasure.
  
  
• Hebrews 11:26: He regarded abuse suffered for Christ to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for his eyes were fixed on the reward.
  
  
• Hebrews 11:27: By faith he left Egypt without fearing the king's anger, for he persevered as though he could see the one who is invisible.
  
  
• Hebrews 10:26-27: For if we deliberately keep on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins is left for us, but only a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury of fire that will consume God's enemies.
  
  
• Hebrews 10:28-29: Someone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. How much greater punishment do you think that person deserves who has contempt for the Son of God, and profanes the blood of the covenant that made him holy, and insults the Spirit of grace?
  
  
• Hebrews 10:30-31: For we know the one who said, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay," and again, "The Lord will judge his people." It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
  
  
• Hebrews 12:28-29: So since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us give thanks, and through this let us offer worship pleasing to God in devotion and awe. For our God is indeed a devouring fire.
  
  
• Deuteronomy 6:5: You must love the LORD your God with your whole mind, your whole being, and all your strength.
  
  
• Mark 12:30-31: Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.' The second is: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."
  
  
• Deuteronomy 10:12-13: Now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you except to revere him, to obey all his commandments, to love him, to serve him with all your mind and being, and to keep the Lord's commandments and statutes that I am giving you today for your own good?
  
  
• Psalm 19:12: Who can know all his errors? Please do not punish me for sins I am unaware of.
  
  
• Psalm 19:13: Moreover, keep me from committing flagrant sins; do not allow such sins to control me. Then I will be blameless, and innocent of blatant rebellion.
  
  
• Psalm 19:14: May my words and my thoughts be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my sheltering rock and my redeemer.
  
  
• Psalm 86:11-12: O LORD, teach me how you want me to live! Then I will obey your commands. Make me wholeheartedly committed to you! O Lord, my God, I will give you thanks with my whole heart! I will honor your name continually!
  
  
• Psalm 101:1-2: I will sing about loyalty and justice! To you, O LORD, I will sing praises! I will walk in the way of integrity. When will you come to me? I will conduct my business with integrity in the midst of my palace.
  
  
• Psalm 101:3: I will not even consider doing what is dishonest. I hate doing evil; I will have no part of it.
  
  
• Psalm 101:4: I will have nothing to do with a perverse person; I will not permit evil.
  
  
• Psalm 101:5: I will destroy anyone who slanders his neighbor in secret. I will not tolerate anyone who has a cocky demeanor and an arrogant attitude.
  
  
• Psalm 101:6: I will favor the honest people of the land, and allow them to live with me. Those who walk in the way of integrity will attend me.
  
  
• Psalm 101:7: Deceitful people will not live in my palace. Liars will not be welcome in my presence.
  
  
• Psalm 101:8: Each morning I will destroy all the wicked people in the land, and remove all evildoers from the city of the LORD.
  
  
• Psalm 119:59: I consider my actions and follow your rules.
  
  
• Psalm 119:133: Direct my steps by your word! Do not let any sin dominate me!
  
  
• Proverbs 9:13: The woman called Folly is brash, she is naive and does not know anything.
  
  
• Proverbs 21:23: The one who guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his life from troubles.
  
  
• Matthew 6:22-24: "The eye is the lamp of the body. If then your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is diseased, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! "No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
  
  
• Matthew 7:13-14: "Enter through the narrow gate, because the gate is wide and the way is spacious that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. But the gate is narrow and the way is difficult that leads to life, and there are few who find it.
  
  
• Matthew 26:41: Stay awake and pray that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."
  
  
• Luke 21:36: But stay alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that must happen, and to stand before the Son of Man."
  
  
• Acts 14:22: They strengthened the souls of the disciples and encouraged them to continue in the faith, saying, "We must enter the kingdom of God through many persecutions."
  
  
• Romans 6:11: So you too consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
  
  
• Romans 6:12-14: Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires, and do not present your members to sin as instruments to be used for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments to be used for righteousness. For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.
  
  
• Romans 12:1: Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice - alive, holy, and pleasing to God - which is your reasonable service.
  
  
• 1 Corinthians 6:20: For you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.
  
  
• 1 Corinthians 9:24: Do you not know that all the runners in a stadium compete, but only one receives the prize? So run to win.
  
  
• 1 Corinthians 9:25: Each competitor must exercise self-control in everything. They do it to receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable one.
  
  
• 1 Corinthians 9:26-27: So I do not run uncertainly or box like one who hits only air. Instead I subdue my body and make it my slave, so that after preaching to others I myself will not be disqualified.
  
  
• 2 Corinthians 13:5: Put yourselves to the test to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize regarding yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you - unless, indeed, you fail the test!
  
  
• Galatians 5:13-14: For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity to indulge your flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole law can be summed up in a single commandment, namely, "You must love your neighbor as yourself."
  
  
• Galatians 5:16-17: But I say, live by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh. For the flesh has desires that are opposed to the Spirit, and the Spirit has desires that are opposed to the flesh, for these are in opposition to each other, so that you cannot do what you want.
  
  
• Galatians 5:19-21: Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, depravity, idolatry, sorcery, hostilities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish rivalries, dissensions, factions, envying, murder, drunkenness, carousing, and similar things. I am warning you, as I had warned you before: Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God!
  
  
• Galatians 5:22-23: But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
  
  
• Galatians 5:24: Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
  
  
• Galatians 5:25: If we live by the Spirit, let us also behave in accordance with the Spirit.
  
  
• Ephesians 4:1-3: I, therefore, the prisoner for the Lord, urge you to live worthily of the calling with which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, making every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
  
  
• Ephesians 5:15-16: Therefore be very careful how you live - not as unwise but as wise, taking advantage of every opportunity, because the days are evil.
  
  
• Philippians 2:12: So then, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence but even more in my absence, continue working out your salvation with awe and reverence,
  
  
• Philippians 2:14: Do everything without grumbling or arguing,
  
  
• Philippians 4:13: I am able to do all things through the one who strengthens me.
  
  
• Colossians 3:1-4: Therefore, if you have been raised with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Keep thinking about things above, not things on the earth, for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ (who is your life) appears, then you too will be revealed in glory with him.
  
  
• Colossians 3:17: And whatever you do in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
  
  
• Colossians 3:23-24: Whatever you are doing, work at it with enthusiasm, as to the Lord and not for people, because you know that you will receive your inheritance from the Lord as the reward. Serve the Lord Christ.
  
  
• Colossians 4:17: And tell Archippus, "See to it that you complete the ministry you received in the Lord."
  
  
• Titus 2:11-14: For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people. It trains us to reject godless ways and worldly desires and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, as we wait for the happy fulfillment of our hope in the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ. He gave himself for us to set us free from every kind of lawlessness and to purify for himself a people who are truly his, who are eager to do good.
  
  
• 1 Peter 2:21: For to this you were called, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving an example for you to follow in his steps.
  
  
• Revelation 16:15: (Look! I will come like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays alert and does not lose his clothes so that he will not have to walk around naked and his shameful condition be seen.)
  
  

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