5 Bible Verses about Sobriety

Be sober, be vigilant. Your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about seeking whom to devour.

Let us walk decently as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in beddings and wantonness, not in strife and envy.

And do not become intoxicated with wine, during which is debauchery, but be filled in Spirit,

But the end of all things has approached. Therefore be serious, and be sober for the prayers.

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for rulers [to say], Where is strong drink? Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice [due] to any who is afflicted. Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish, and wine to the bitter in soul. read more.
Let him drink, and forget his need, and remember his misery no more.

Faithful is the saying, If any man aspires to supervision, he desires a good work. The overseer therefore must be blameless, the husband of one wife, without wine, serious minded, disciplined, loving strangers, able to teach, no drunkard, not a fighter, not greedy of base gain, but meek, noncontentious, no lover of money, read more.
a man who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all propriety (but if any man knows not how to rule his own house, how will he take care of a congregation of God?), not a new convert, lest having been puffed up he may fall into the condemnation of the devil. And he must also have good testimony from those outside, lest he may fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. Helpers likewise, be honorable, not double-tongued, not attending to much wine, not greedy of base gain, holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. And let these also first be proven, then being blameless, let them serve as deacons. The wives likewise, be honorable, not slanderous, without wine, faithful in all things.

But speak thou the things that are fitting for the sound doctrine. Aged men are to be without wine, noble, serious minded, sound in faith, in love, in perseverance. Aged women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderous, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is good, read more.
so that they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be serious-minded, pure, homemakers, good, submissive to their own husbands, so that the word of God may not be blasphemed. Likewise exhort the younger men to be sober-minded. Concerning all things presenting thyself a pattern of good works in the doctrine: incorruption, dignity, incorruptibility, sound speech, irreproachable, so that the man of opposition may be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us. Bondmen are to be obedient to their own masters, to be well-pleasing in all things, not speaking contrary, not pilfering, but demonstrating all good fidelity, so that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things. For the saving grace of God has appeared to all men, disciplining us, so that, having denied irreverence and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and piously in the present age.

But we, being of the day, should be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and a helmet, the hope of salvation.

So then let us not sleep, as also the others, but let us watch and be sober.

Be sober, be vigilant. Your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about seeking whom to devour.

Therefore having girded up the loins of your mind, being sober, hope entirely for the grace brought to you at the revealing of Jesus Christ.

Be sober, be vigilant. Your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about seeking whom to devour.

But the end of all things has approached. Therefore be serious, and be sober for the prayers.

So then let us not sleep, as also the others, but let us watch and be sober.

but a lover of strangers, a lover of good, serious minded, just, devout, self-controlled,

The overseer therefore must be blameless, the husband of one wife, without wine, serious minded, disciplined, loving strangers, able to teach, no drunkard, not a fighter, not greedy of base gain, but meek, noncontentious, no lover of money,

The overseer therefore must be blameless, the husband of one wife, without wine, serious minded, disciplined, loving strangers, able to teach, no drunkard, not a fighter, not greedy of base gain, but meek, noncontentious, no lover of money,

The wives likewise, be honorable, not slanderous, without wine, faithful in all things.

And similarly, the women to adorn themselves in disciplined decorum, with reverence and sobriety, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive apparel,

disciplining us, so that, having denied irreverence and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and piously in the present age.

For the saving grace of God has appeared to all men, disciplining us, so that, having denied irreverence and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and piously in the present age.

Be sober, be vigilant. Your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about seeking whom to devour.

But the end of all things has approached. Therefore be serious, and be sober for the prayers.

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to over think beyond what he ought to think, but to think so as to think soundly, as God has apportioned to each man a measure of faith.

But the end of all things has approached. Therefore be serious, and be sober for the prayers.

disciplining us, so that, having denied irreverence and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and piously in the present age.

so that they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

Likewise exhort the younger men to be sober-minded.

Aged men are to be without wine, noble, serious minded, sound in faith, in love, in perseverance.

The wives likewise, be honorable, not slanderous, without wine, faithful in all things.