Self-Control
Core Verses29
“He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.”
“He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.”
“And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;”
“A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.”
“But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.”
“And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.”
“Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the LORD had delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the LORD'S anointed.”
“But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.”
“Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;”
“Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;”
“Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.”
“And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.”
“That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.”
“If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.”
“And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.”
“For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.”
“And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.”
“Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:”
“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:”
“Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;”
“Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.”
“But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.”
“And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.”
“Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.”
“But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.”
“But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;”
“Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.”
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