Topic : Self-control

As a city that lieth open and is not compassed with walls, so is a man that cannot refrain his own spirit in speaking.

Proverbs 25:28

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear: but of power and of love and of sobriety.

2 Timothy 1:7

The patient man is better than the valiant: and he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh cities.

Proverbs 16:32

Death and life are in the power of the tongue: they that love it, shall eat the fruits thereof.

Proverbs 18:21

But the fruit of the Spirit is, charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity,
Mildness, faith, modesty, continency, chastity. Against such there is no law.

Galatians 5:22-23

And you, employing all care, minister in your faith, virtue: And in virtue, knowledge:
And in knowledge, abstinence: and in abstinence, patience: and in patience, godliness:
And in godliness, love of brotherhood: and in love of brotherhood, charity.

2 Peter 1:5-7

Therefore, let us not sleep, as others do: but let us watch, and be sober.

1 Thessalonians 5:6

You know, my dearest brethren. And let every man be swift to hear, but slow to speak and slow to anger.

James 1:19

Let no temptation take hold on you, but such as is human. And God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that which you are able: but will make also with temptation issue, that you may be able to bear it.

1 Corinthians 10:13

But I chastise my body and bring it into subjection: lest perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should become a castaway.

1 Corinthians 9:27

For the grace of God our Saviour hath appeared to all men:
Instructing us, that, denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we should live soberly and justly and godly in this world,

Titus 2:11-12

And be not conformed to this world: but be reformed in the newness of your mind, that you may prove what is the good and the acceptable and the perfect will of God.

Romans 12:2

And every one that striveth for the mastery refraineth himself from all things. And they indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown: but we an incorruptible one.

1 Corinthians 9:25

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places.

Ephesians 6:12

I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think upon a virgin.

Job 31:1

Look to yourselves, that you lose not the things which you have wrought: but that you may receive a full reward.

2 John 1:8

A fool immediately sheweth his anger: but he that dissembleth injuries is wise.

Proverbs 12:16

Decline not to the right hand, nor to the left: turn away thy foot from evil. For the Lord knoweth the ways that are on the right hand: but those are perverse which are on the left hand. But he will make thy courses straight, he will bring forward thy ways in peace.

Proverbs 4:27


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