Bible Verses about “self discipline”
The Bible contains 16 verses about self discipline across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“For God didn't give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.”
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,”
“gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.”
“Don't you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.”
“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.”
“but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.”
“I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air,”
“All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.”
“instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world;”
“The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.”
“but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled;”
“For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,”
“looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ;”
“who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.”
“Like a city that is broken down and without walls is a man whose spirit is without restraint.”
“He who refuses correction despises his own soul, but he who listens to reproof gets understanding.”