20 Bible Verses about

Self-Control in Relationships

Romans 13:8 BSB

Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

Matthew 22:39 BSB

And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

Matthew 19:19 BSB

honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.’”

Matthew 5:43 BSB

You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor’ and ‘Hate your enemy.’

Proverbs 14:20 BSB

The poor man is hated even by his neighbor, but many are those who love the rich.

Romans 13:10 BSB

Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

James 2:8 BSB

If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.

Luke 10:27 BSB

He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’ and ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”

John 15:17 BSB

This is My command to you: Love one another.

1 John 4:11 BSB

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

John 15:12 BSB

This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

John 13:35 BSB

By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.”

Ephesians 4:2 BSB

with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

1 John 3:11 BSB

This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.

Galatians 5:23 BSB

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

Proverbs 25:28 BSB

Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who does not control his temper.

2 Timothy 1:7 BSB

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

1 Corinthians 9:25 BSB

Everyone who competes in the games trains with strict discipline. They do it for a crown that is perishable, but we do it for a crown that is imperishable.

1 Corinthians 9:27 BSB

No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

Galatians 5:22 BSB

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

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