What Does the Bible Say About Self

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 6 helpful votes

But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

1 Corinthians 6:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything.

James 5:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

Ephesians 5:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,

1 Corinthians 13:4-5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;

1 Corinthians 7:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

1 Corinthians 7:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

Proverbs 25:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.

Exodus 20:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“You shall not murder.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

James 1:19-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Hebrews 6:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

2 Corinthians 10:3-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,

2 Corinthians 7:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.

1 Corinthians 9:24-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.

1 Corinthians 6:9-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

John 8:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Luke 9:62 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”

Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ...

Malachi 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.

Proverbs 20:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do not say, “I will repay evil”; wait for the Lord, and he will deliver you.

Proverbs 20:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.

Proverbs 14:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverbs 5:18-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.

Exodus 20:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“You shall not commit adultery.

Genesis 38:8-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother's wife and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.” But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his. So whenever he went in to his brother's wife he would waste the semen on the ground, so as not to give offspring to his brother. And what he did was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and he put him to death also.

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

36 Bible Verses about Self - Control

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

James 5:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:4-5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 25:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Exodus 20:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 1:19-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 6:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 10:3-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 7:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 9:24-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:9-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 8:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 9:62 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Malachi 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 20:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 20:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 14:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 5:18-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 20:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 38:8-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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36 Bible Verses about Self - Control

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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James 5:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Proverbs 25:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 20:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Matthew 5:28 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

James 5:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:4-5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 25:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Exodus 20:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 1:19-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 6:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 10:3-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 7:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 9:24-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:9-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 8:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 9:62 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Malachi 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 20:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 20:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 14:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 5:18-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 20:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 38:8-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes