3 Bible Verses about Intemperance
Most Relevant Verses
One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, "Cretans are always false, evil beasts, idle gluttons."
For this cause, God gave them up to vile passions; for both their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature; and, in like manner, the men also, leaving the natural use of the women, burned in their desires one for another; men with men working unseemliness, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their error, which was due.
whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who are thinking of earthly things.
From Thematic Bible
Intemperance » Examples of » Excess, general references to
For the time past is sufficient to have wrought the will of the gentiles, having walked in wantonness, lusts, wine-bibbings, revelings, carousings, and impious idolatries;
suffering evil as wages of unrighteousness; accounting revelry in the daytime a pleasure; spots and blemishes; reveling in their deceivings, while feasting with you;
envyings, drunkenness, revelings, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, as I also said before, that those practicing such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God.
Intemperance » Examples of » Drunkards, general references to
Intemperance » Examples of » Other examples
But, if that servant should say in his heart, My lord is delaying to come, and shall begin to beat the manservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;
for, in your eating, each one takes his own supper before others; and one is hungry, and another is drunken!
