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Quotes About Self-control

If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you refuse to do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires you, but you must master it.”
~ Genesis 4:7
he is to abstain from wine and strong drink. He must not drink vinegar made from wine or strong drink, and he must not drink any grape juice or eat fresh grapes or raisins.
~ Numbers 6:3
When you are encamped against your enemies, then you shall keep yourself from every wicked thing.
~ Deuteronomy 23:9
and said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Put away your wine!”
~ 1 Samuel 1:14
Blessed is your discernment, and blessed are you, because today you kept me from bloodshed and from avenging myself by my own hand.
~ 1 Samuel 25:33
And I have been blameless before Him and kept myself from iniquity.
~ 2 Samuel 22:24
“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?
~ Job 31:1
Be angry, yet do not sin; on your bed, search your heart and be still. Selah
~ Psalm 4:4
And I have been blameless before Him and kept myself from iniquity.
~ Psalm 18:23
Refrain from anger and abandon wrath; do not fret—it can only bring harm.
~ Psalm 37:8
For the choirmaster. For Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, “I will watch my ways so that I will not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle as long as the wicked are present.”
~ Psalm 39:1
Do not lift up your horn against heaven or speak with an outstretched neck.í”
~ Psalm 75:5
Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch at the door of my lips.
~ Psalm 141:3
Keep your path far from her; do not go near the door of her house,
~ Proverbs 5:8
Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?
~ Proverbs 5:16
He dies for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly.
~ Proverbs 5:23
Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.
~ Proverbs 6:25
A foolís anger is known at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.
~ Proverbs 12:16
He who guards his mouth protects his life, but the one who opens his lips invites his own ruin.
~ Proverbs 13:3
A patient man has great understanding, but a quick-tempered man promotes folly.
~ Proverbs 14:29
A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger calms dispute.
~ Proverbs 15:18
He who is slow to anger is better than a warrior, and he who controls his temper is greater than one who captures a city.
~ Proverbs 16:32
A man of knowledge restrains his words, and a man of understanding maintains a calm spirit.
~ Proverbs 17:27
A foolís mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul.
~ Proverbs 18:7