Bible Verses about “controlling our emotions”

“Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,”

“for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.”

“Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,”

“doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;”

“bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”

“doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;”

“I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.”

“And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.”

“Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.”

“envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.”

“No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.”

“Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,”

“idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,”

“For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.”

“Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.”

“We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.”

“When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.”

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,”

“For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.”

“But now faith, hope, and love remain--these three. The greatest of these is love.”

“For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.”

“Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.”

“If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing.”

“but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.”

“If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.”

“Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.”

“For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;”

“If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.”

“gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.”

“Therefore, put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand.”

“And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;”

“and having fitted your feet with the preparation of the Good News of peace;”

“above all, taking up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one.”

“Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,”

“"Be angry, and don't sin." Don't let the sun go down on your wrath,”

“neither give place to the devil.”

“Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.”

“He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;”

“But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh.”

“with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;”

“for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ;”

“and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,”

“that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;”

“and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.”

“being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.”

“I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,”

“until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;”

“but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;”

“that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;”

“from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.”