Self-Mastery
See also Abstain ; Temperance
- Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: Ps. 37:8 .
- I have refrained my feet from every evil: Ps. 119:101 .
- soft answer turneth away wrath: Prov. 15:1 .
- He that hath no rule over his own spirit: Prov. 25:28 .
- let him deny himself, and take up his cross: Matt. 16:24 . ( Mark 8:34 . )
- not as I will, but as thou wilt: Matt. 26:39 .
- if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: Mark 9:43 .
- every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate: 1 Cor. 9:25 .
- seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked: 1 Cor. 13:5 .
- Resist the devil: James 4:7 .
- refrain his tongue from evil: 1 Pet. 3:10 .
- becometh as a child, submissive: Mosiah 3:19 .
- teach them to withstand every temptation of the devil: Alma 37:33 .
- bridle all your passions: Alma 38:12 .
- do not ask for that which you ought not: D&C 8:10 .
- Pray always, that you may come off conqueror: D&C 10:5 .
- beware how they take my name in their lips: D&C 63:61 . ( D&C 63:61–64 ; D&C 136:21 . )
- who overcome by faith, and are sealed: D&C 76:53 .
- cease from … your wicked doings: D&C 88:121 . ( D&C 88:121–25 . )
- let every man learn his duty, and to act in the office: D&C 107:99 .
- persuasion, by long-suffering: D&C 121:41 .
- clothe himself with charity: D&C 124:116 .
See also Prov. 1:15 ; Matt. 16:25 ; Luke 2:51 ; Luke 14:25–28 ; Rom. 12:1–3 ; 2 Ne. 4:16–35 ; Alma 34:31–32 ; D&C 10:63 ; D&C 59:9 ; D&C 122:9
