Self-Control

"Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another."

1 Corinthians 4:6

"“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything."

1 Corinthians 6:12

"Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman."

1 Corinthians 7:1

"Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control."

1 Corinthians 7:5

"But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn with passion."

1 Corinthians 7:9

"But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no urgency, but has power over his own will, and has determined in his own heart to keep his own virgin, does well."

1 Corinthians 7:37

"What then is my reward? That when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News."

1 Corinthians 9:18

"Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible."

1 Corinthians 9:25

"but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified."

1 Corinthians 9:27

"For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn’t be judged."

1 Corinthians 11:31

"For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep."

1 Corinthians 11:30

"The spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets,"

1 Corinthians 14:32

"When Ben Hadad heard this message as he was drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions, he said to his servants, “Prepare to attack!” So they prepared to attack the city."

1 Kings 20:12

"But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer."

1 Peter 4:7

"Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour."

1 Peter 5:8

"and the people pounced on the plunder, and took sheep, cattle, and calves, and killed them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood."

1 Samuel 14:32

"So David checked his men with these words, and didn’t allow them to rise against Saul. Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way."

1 Samuel 24:7

"For indeed, as Yahweh the God of Israel lives, who has withheld me from harming you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn’t have been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall.”25:34 or, one male."

1 Samuel 25:34

"that this shall be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. When Yahweh has dealt well with my lord, then remember your servant.”"

1 Samuel 25:31

"David answered, “Behold the spear, O king! Let one of the young men come over and get it."

1 Samuel 26:22