What Does the Bible Say About Self Discipine?

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 18 helpful votes

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

1 Thessalonians 4:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 9:27 ESV / 6 helpful votes

But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. ...

1 Corinthians 9:24-27 ESV / 5 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. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

Psalm 2:1-12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying, “Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.” He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision. Then he will speak to them in his wrath, and terrify them in his fury, saying, ...

1 Peter 1:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,

Galatians 5:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

2 Corinthians 5:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died;

Proverbs 12:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.

Psalm 139:1-24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. ...

Ezra 10:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Arise, for it is your task, and we are with you; be strong and do it.”

James 5:1-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days. Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. ...

Ephesians 5:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

2 Kings 6:1-33 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “See, the place where we dwell under your charge is too small for us. Let us go to the Jordan and each of us get there a log, and let us make a place for us to dwell there.” And he answered, “Go.” Then one of them said, “Be pleased to go with your servants.” And he answered, “I will go.” So he went with them. And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees. But as one was felling a log, his axe head fell into the water, and he cried out, “Alas, my master! It was borrowed.” ...

Deuteronomy 6:6-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

Acts 3:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. And a man lame from birth was being carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple that is called the Beautiful Gate to ask alms of those entering the temple. Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked to receive alms. And Peter directed his gaze at him, as did John, and said, “Look at us.” And he fixed his attention on them, expecting to receive something from them. ...

17 Bible Verses about Self Discipine

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 18 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 4:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 9:27 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 9:24-27 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Psalm 2:1-12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Peter 1:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Galatians 5:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 12:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Psalm 139:1-24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ezra 10:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

James 5:1-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Kings 6:1-33 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 6:6-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 3:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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17 Bible Verses about Self Discipine

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2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 18 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 4:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 9:27 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 9:24-27 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Psalm 2:1-12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Peter 1:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Galatians 5:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 12:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Psalm 139:1-24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ezra 10:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

James 5:1-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Kings 6:1-33 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 6:6-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 3:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes