Self-Control

Everyone dea= ls with self-control issues on some level.

Galatians 5:17

For the desires of the flesh are opposed to the [Holy] Spirit, and the [desires of the] Spirit are opposed to the flesh (godless h= uman nature); for these are antagonistic to each other [continually withstanding= and in conflict with each other], so that you are not free but are prevented fr= om doing what you desire to do. (AMP)

Galatians 5:22-23

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.(NKJV)

Proverbs 16:32

He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, And= he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city. (NKJV)

Proverbs 15:18

A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, But the slow to an= ger calms a dispute (NASB)

1 Corinthians 9:27

But [like a boxer] I buffet my body [handle it roughly, discipline it by hardships] and subdue it, for fear that after proclaiming = to others the Gospel and things pertaining to it, I myself should become unfit [not stand the test, be unapproved and rejected as a counterfeit]. (AMP)

Colossians 1:29

To this end I also labor, striving according to His wo= rking which works in me mightily. (NKJV)

Self-Control is also learning to be content in a socie= ty that tells us we need to have more.

Practicing self-control means that we are able to prio= ritize things in life and get things in order.

Philippians 3:12-14

Not that I have already attained, or am already perfec= ted; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but o= ne thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.(NKJV)

2 Peter 1:4-6

by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, = to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, = to perseverance godliness, (NKJV)

self-control also means a proper and lim= ited use of all earthly enjoyments.

I Corinthian= s 9:25

Now every athlete who goes into training conducts himself temperately and restr= icts himself in all things. They do it to win a wreath that will soon wither, bu= t we [do it to receive a crown of eternal blessedness] that cannot wither. (AMP)=