Quotes About Self-control

If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than to have two hands and two feet and be thrown into the eternal fire.

But suppose that servant says in his heart, ëMy master will be a long time in coming,í and he begins to beat the menservants and maidservants, and to eat and drink and get drunk.

As Paul expounded on righteousness, self-control, and the coming judgment, Felix became frightened and said, “You may go for now. When I find the time, I will call for you.”

Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.

“Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be mastered by anything.

Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good to abstain from sexual relations.

Do not deprive each other, except by mutual consent and for a time, so you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, so that Satan will not tempt you through your lack of self-control.

But if they cannot control themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

But the man who is firmly established in his heart and under no constraint, with control over his will and resolve in his heart not to marry the virgin, he will do well.

No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

“Be angry, yet do not sin.” Do not let the sun set upon your anger,

Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.

Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.

But now you must put aside all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.

each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,

not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;

For those who sleep, sleep at night; and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.

Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes,

Women, however, will be saved through childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, with self-control.

An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

not dependent on wine, not violent but gentle, peaceable, and free of the love of money.

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.