Bible on Self-Control

And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;

But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;

That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.

Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.

Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?

He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.

Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.

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

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

And with these sayings scarce restrained they the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them.

But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.

That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.

Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.

That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.

Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.

And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

But after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss.

And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing.

Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?

And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.

And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that the LORD will work for us: for there is no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few.

Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.

Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.

Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou.

Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:

If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying,

When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.

And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.

And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods: and the cry of the city went up to heaven.

And he said unto him, Behold now, there is in this city a man of God, and he is an honourable man; all that he saith cometh surely to pass: now let us go thither; peradventure he can shew us our way that we should go.

Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our people, and for the cities of our God: and the LORD do that which seemeth him good.

Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it: lest I take the city, and it be called after my name.

Be of good courage, and let us behave ourselves valiantly for our people, and for the cities of our God: and let the LORD do that which is good in his sight.

Blessed be the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city.

A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.

He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.

For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.

And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.

It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.

It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.

He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man.

By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.

Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.

Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.