SELF-CONTROL

Passages on this topic · 41

• 1 Samuel 10:27

  But certain worthless fellows said, “How could this man save us?” They despised him, and brought him no present. But he held his peace.

• 1 Samuel 24:1

  When Saul had returned from following the Philistines, he was told, “Behold, David is in the wilderness of En Gedi.”

• 1 Samuel 24:2

  Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men on the rocks of the wild goats.

• 1 Samuel 24:3

  He came to the sheep pens by the way, where there was a cave; and Saul went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were staying in the innermost parts of the cave.

• 1 Samuel 24:4

  David’s men said to him, “Behold, the day of which Yahweh said to you, ‘Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you.’” Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul’s robe secretly.

• 1 Samuel 24:5

  Afterward, David’s heart struck him, because he had cut off Saul’s skirt.

• 1 Samuel 24:6

  He said to his men, “Yahweh forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, Yahweh’s anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, since he is Yahweh’s anointed.”

• 1 Samuel 24:7

  So David checked his men with these words, and didn’t allow them to rise against Saul. Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way.

• 1 Samuel 24:8

  David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, “My lord the king!” When Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth, and showed respect.

• 1 Samuel 24:9

  David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to men’s words, saying, ‘Behold, David seeks to harm you?’

• 1 Samuel 24:10

  Behold, today your eyes have seen how Yahweh had delivered you today into my hand in the cave. Some urged me to kill you; but I spared you; and I said, I will not stretch out my hand against my lord; for he is Yahweh’s anointed.

• 1 Samuel 24:11

  Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn’t kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it.

• 1 Samuel 24:12

  May Yahweh judge between me and you, and may Yahweh avenge me of you; but my hand will not be on you.

• 1 Samuel 24:13

  As the proverb of the ancients says, ‘Out of the wicked comes wickedness;’ but my hand will not be on you.

• 1 Samuel 24:14

  Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea?

• 1 Samuel 24:15

  May Yahweh therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand.”

• 1 Samuel 26:1

  The Ziphites came to Saul to Gibeah, saying, “Doesn’t David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert?”

• 1 Samuel 26:2

  Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.

• 1 Samuel 26:3

  Saul encamped in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert, by the way. But David stayed in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.

• 1 Samuel 26:4

  David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul had certainly come.

• 1 Samuel 26:5

  Then David arose, and came to the place where Saul had encamped; and David saw the place where Saul lay, with Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his army. Saul lay within the place of the wagons, and the people were encamped around him.

• 1 Samuel 26:6

  Then David answered and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother of Joab, saying, “Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp?” Abishai said, “I will go down with you.”

• 1 Samuel 26:7

  So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the place of the wagons, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people lay around him.

• 1 Samuel 26:8

  Then Abishai said to David, “God has delivered up your enemy into your hand today. Now therefore please let me strike him with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time.”

• 1 Samuel 26:9

  David said to Abishai, “Don’t destroy him; for who can stretch out his hand against Yahweh’s anointed, and be guiltless?”

• 1 Samuel 26:10

  David said, “As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.

• 1 Samuel 26:11

  Yahweh forbid that I should stretch out my hand against Yahweh’s anointed; but now please take the spear that is at his head, and the jar of water, and let us go.”

• 1 Samuel 26:12

  So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul’s head; and they went away: and no man saw it, or knew it, nor did any awake; for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from Yahweh was fallen on them.

• 1 Samuel 26:13

  Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of the mountain afar off; a great space being between them;

• 1 Samuel 26:14

  and David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, “Don’t you answer, Abner?” Then Abner answered, “Who are you who cries to the king?”

• 1 Samuel 26:15

  David said to Abner, “Aren’t you a man? Who is like you in Israel? Why then have you not kept watch over your lord, the king? For one of the people came in to destroy the king your lord.

• 1 Samuel 26:16

  This thing isn’t good that you have done. As Yahweh lives, you are worthy to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, Yahweh’s anointed. Now see where the king’s spear is, and the jar of water that was at his head.”

• 1 Samuel 26:17

  Saul knew David’s voice, and said, “Is this your voice, my son David?” David said, “It is my voice, my lord, O king.”

• 1 Samuel 26:18

  He said, “Why does my lord pursue his servant? For what have I done? What evil is in my hand?

• 1 Samuel 26:19

  Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is so that Yahweh has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, they are cursed before Yahweh; for they have driven me out today that I shouldn’t cling to Yahweh’s inheritance, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods!’

• 1 Samuel 26:20

  Now therefore, don’t let my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of Yahweh; for the king of Israel has come out to seek a flea, as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains.”

• Matthew 26:62

  The high priest stood up, and said to him, “Have you no answer? What is this that these testify against you?”

• Matthew 26:63

  But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”

• Matthew 27:12

  When he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.

• Matthew 27:13

  Then Pilate said to him, “Don’t you hear how many things they testify against you?”

• Matthew 27:14

  He gave him no answer, not even one word, so that the governor marveled greatly.