13 Bible Verses about Moderation

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, self-control. Against such there is no law.

For the grace of God, which brings salvation to all men, has appeared, teaching us, that denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in the present age;

Again, you have heard that it was said to the ancients: You shall not swear falsely, but shall pay to the Lord your vows. But I say to you, Swear not at all: neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God; nor by the earth, for it is his footstool; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King:read more.
neither shall you swear by your head, for you can not make one hair white or black. But let your word be, Yes, yes; No, no; for whatever is more than these is of the Evil One.

Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every one.

And be not drunk with wine, in which is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit;

Therefore, let us not sleep, as do others, but let us watch and be sober. For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunken, are drunken in the night. But let us, who are of the day, be sober, having on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation:

A bishop, then, must be blame less, the husband of one wife, watchful, soberminded, modest, hospitable, able to teach, not fond of wine, not quarrelsome, not one who makes money by base means; but gentle, not contentious, not covetous;

For the bishop must be blame less, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not passionate, not fond of wine, not quarrelsome, not one who makes money by base means; but hospitable, a lover of goodness, sober-minded, just, holy, temperate,

that the aged men be vigilant, grave, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience; that the aged women likewise be, in deportment, as it becomes holy women, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of good things, That they may teach the young women to be sober-minded, to love their husbands, to love their children,read more.
to be discreet, chaste, fond of home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not reviled. Exhort the young men likewise to be sober-minded, in all things showing yourself an example of good works; in teaching, showing incorruptness, gravity, sound speech that can not be condemned; that he that is opposed may be ashamed, seeing he has no evil thing to say of us.

Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law, its justice, its mercy, and its faithfulness. These you ought to have done, and those you ought not to have neglected. Blind guides! who strain out a gnat, but swallow a camel. Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you make clean the outside of the cup and the plate; but within they are full of rapine and excess.read more.
Blind Pharisee! first make clean the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside of them also may be clean.

What, then, is it, brethren? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has something to teach, has an unknown tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification. If any speak in an unknown tongue, let two, or, at most, three, speak at each meeting, and in succession: and let one interpret. But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church: but let him speak to himself, and to God.read more.
Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others judge: and if any thing be revealed to one who is sitting by, let the first be silent. For you can all prophesy, one by one, that all may learn, and all may be encouraged; and the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets; for God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.

I know your works, that you are neither cold, nor hot: I wish that you were cold, or hot. So, then, because you are luke-warm, and neither cold, nor hot, I will vomit you out of my mouth.

And to the angel of the church in Sardis, write: These things says he that has the seven spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know your works, that you have a name, that you live, and are dead. Be watchful, and strengthen the things that remain, which are about to die; for I have not found your works perfect before God.