19 Bible Verses About Self-Control

The Bible treats self-control as a fruit of the Spirit and as the rule a person keeps over anger, speech and appetite. Paul lists it with the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5:22-23, the Lord tells the angry Cain that he “must rule over” sin (Genesis 4:7), and Proverbs 16:32 ranks self-control above taking a city. The Greek noun usually translated self-control is egkrateia, the mastery of one’s desires. It appears in Paul’s list of the fruit of the…