"I am not mad, most noble Festus," replied Paul; "I am speaking words of sober truth.

So then let us not sleep, like the rest of the world, but let us keep awake and be sober.

But let us, belonging--as we do--to the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.

A minister then must be a man of irreproachable character, true to his one wife, temperate, sober-minded, well-behaved, hospitable to strangers, and with a gift for teaching;

Deaconesses, in the same way, must be sober-minded women, not slanderers, but in every way temperate and trustworthy.

and recover sober-mindedness and freedom from the Devil's snare, though they are now entrapped by him to do his will.

but hospitable to strangers, a lover of goodness, sober-minded, upright, saintly, self-controlled;

Exhort aged men to be temperate, grave, sober-minded, robust in their faith, their love and their patience.

They should school the young women to be affectionate to their husbands and to their children, to be sober-minded, pure in their lives,

training us to renounce ungodliness and all the pleasures of this world, and to live sober, upright, and pious lives at the present time,

But the end of all things is now close at hand: therefore be sober-minded and temperate, so that you may give yourselves to prayer.