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.

So then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.

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.

Like a city that is broken down and without walls is a man whose spirit is without restraint.

I made a covenant with my eyes; how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, that each one of you know how to control his own body in sanctification and honor, not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God.

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.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

A fool shows his annoyance the same day, but one who overlooks an insult is prudent.

A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger.