Here are a few verses about self control......
[FONT=kepler-std !important]Proverbs 29:11Verse Concepts
[FONT=kepler-std !important]A fool always loses his temper, But a wise man holds it back.
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[FONT=kepler-std !important]Proverbs 1:1-5
[FONT=kepler-std !important]The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel: To know wisdom and instruction, To discern the sayings of understanding, To receive instruction in wise behavior, Righteousness, justice and equity; read more.
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[FONT=kepler-std !important]Galatians 5:22-23Verse Concepts
[FONT=kepler-std !important]But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
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[FONT=kepler-std !important]Titus 2:11-12Verse Concepts
[FONT=kepler-std !important]For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age,
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[FONT=kepler-std !important]1 Timothy 3:2Verse Concepts
[FONT=kepler-std !important]An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
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[FONT=kepler-std !important]Titus 1:8Verse Concepts
[FONT=kepler-std !important]but hospitable, loving what is good, sensible, just, devout, self-controlled,
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[FONT=kepler-std !important]Titus 2:2Verse Concepts
[FONT=kepler-std !important]Older men are to be temperate, dignified, sensible, sound in faith, in love, in perseverance.
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[FONT=kepler-std !important]2 Peter 1:5-9Verse Concepts
[FONT=kepler-std !important]Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge, and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness, and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love. read more.
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[FONT=kepler-std !important]1 Corinthians 9:26-27Verse Concepts
[FONT=kepler-std !important]Therefore I run in such a way, as not without aim; I box in such a way, as not beating the air; but I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
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[FONT=kepler-std !important]1 Corinthians 7:36-38Verse Concepts
[FONT=kepler-std !important]But if any man thinks that he is acting unbecomingly toward his virgin daughter, if she is past her youth, and if it must be so, let him do what he wishes, he does not sin; let her marry. But he who stands firm in his heart, being under no constraint, but has authority over his own will, and has decided this in his own heart, to keep his own virgin daughter, he will do well. So then both he who gives his own virgin daughter in marriage does well, and he who does not give her in marriage will do better.
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[FONT=kepler-std !important]1 Thessalonians 4:3-7Verse Concepts
[FONT=kepler-std !important]For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God; read more.
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[FONT=kepler-std !important]1 Peter 1:13Verse Concepts
[FONT=kepler-std !important]Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
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[FONT=kepler-std !important]1 Thessalonians 5:6-8Verse Concepts
[FONT=kepler-std !important]so then let us not sleep as others do, but let us be alert and sober. For those who sleep do their sleeping at night, and those who get drunk get drunk at night. But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation
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