• 2 Timothy 3:2-3
  For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good,
   
• Jeremiah 17:9
  " The heart is deceitful above all things,
  And desperately wicked;
  Who can know it?
  
   
• James 1:14-15
  But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.
   
• Proverbs 23:20-21
  Do not mix with winebibbers,
  Or with gluttonous eaters of meat;
  For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty,
  And drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.
  
   
• Luke 8:14
  Now the ones that fell among thorns are those who, when they have heard, go out and are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.
   
• 1 Corinthians 9:27
  But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.
   
• Ephesians 5:18
  And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit,
   
• 1 Corinthians 7:9
  but if they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
   
• Galatians 5:19-21
  Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
   
• Proverbs 25:28
  Whoever has no rule over his own spirit
  Is like a city broken down, without walls.
  
   
• Romans 8:13
  For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
   
• 1 Corinthians 7:5
  Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
   
• Titus 2:3
  the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things—
   
• 2 Peter 3:3
  knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts,
   
• Genesis 3:6
  So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.
   
• Genesis 4:5-6
  but He did not respect Cain and his offering. And Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell. So the LORD said to Cain, "Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen?
   
• Proverbs 7:10-11
  And there a woman met him,
  With the attire of a harlot, and a crafty heart.
  She was loud and rebellious,
  Her feet would not stay at home.
  
   
• Proverbs 15:1
  A soft answer turns away wrath,
  But a harsh word stirs up anger.
  
   
• Proverbs 18:21
  Death and life are in the power of the tongue,
  And those who love it will eat its fruit.
  
   
• Proverbs 23:29-30
  Who has woe?
  Who has sorrow?
  Who has contentions?
  Who has complaints?
  Who has wounds without cause?
  Who has redness of eyes?
  Those who linger long at the wine,
  Those who go in search of mixed wine.
  
   
• Ecclesiastes 7:8
  The end of a thing is better than its beginning;
  The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
  
   
• Matthew 15:18-20
  But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man."
   

Related Scriptures

• Proverbs 22:6
  Train up a child in the way he should go,
  And when he is old he will not depart from it.
  
   
• 1 Corinthians 9:25-26
  And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown. Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air.
   
• Proverbs 23:1-3
  When you sit down to eat with a ruler,
  Consider carefully what is before you;
  And put a knife to your throat
  If you are a man given to appetite.
  Do not desire his delicacies,
  For they are deceptive food.
  
   
• Matthew 5:22
  But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment. And whoever says to his brother, 'Raca!' shall be in danger of the council. But whoever says, 'You fool!' shall be in danger of hell fire.
   
• Acts 24:25
  Now as he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was afraid and answered, 'Go away for now; when I have a convenient time I will call for you.'
   
• 1 Corinthians 13:5
  does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;
   
• 1 Corinthians 13:7
  bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
   
• Philippians 2:8
  And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.
   
• Philippians 3:19
  whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame—who set their mind on earthly things.
   
• Proverbs 21:23
  Whoever guards his mouth and tongue
  Keeps his soul from troubles.