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

And as he reasoned about righteousness and self-control and the coming judgment, Felix was alarmed and said, “Go away for the present. When I get an opportunity I will summon you.”

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.

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

Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.

gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire,

Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.

Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

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

heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,

but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.

Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness.

to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled.

training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers.

and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness,