3 Bible Verses about Intemperance
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One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons."
For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural. And the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in their own persons the due penalty for their error.
Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.
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Intemperance » Examples of » Excess, general references to
For you have spent enough time in the past doing what the Gentiles like to do, living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and lawless idolatry.
suffering wrong for their wrongdoing. They count it a pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, as they carouse with you.
envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Intemperance » Examples of » Drunkards, general references to
Intemperance » Examples of » Other examples
But if that servant says to himself, 'My master is delayed in coming,' and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,
for in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal, and one is hungry and another is drunk.
