5 Bible Verses about Sobriety

Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it sparkleth in the cup, and goeth down smoothly:

Be vigilant, watch. Your adversary the devil as a roaring lion walks about seeking whom he may devour.

As in the day, let us walk becomingly; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and lasciviousness, not in strife and emulation.

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

But the end of all things is drawn nigh: be sober therefore, and be watchful unto prayers;

It is not for kings, Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for rulers to say, Where is the strong drink? lest they drink And forget the law, And pervert the judgment of any of the children of affliction. Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto the bitter of soul: read more.
let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

The word is faithful: if any one aspires to exercise oversight, he desires a good work. The overseer then must be irreproachable, husband of one wife, sober, discreet, decorous, hospitable, apt to teach; not given to excesses from wine, not a striker, but mild, not addicted to contention, not fond of money, read more.
conducting his own house well, having his children in subjection with all gravity; (but if one does not know how to conduct his own house, how shall he take care of the assembly of God?) not a novice, that he may not, being inflated, fall into the fault of the devil. But it is necessary that he should have also a good testimony from those without, that he may fall not into reproach and the snare of the devil. Ministers, in like manner, grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not seeking gain by base means, holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. And let these be first proved, then let them minister, being without charge against them. The women in like manner grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

But do thou speak the things that become sound teaching; that the elder men be sober, grave, discreet, sound in faith, in love, in patience; that the elder women in like manner be in deportment as becoming those who have to say to sacred things, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is right; read more.
that they may admonish the young women to be attached to their husbands, to be attached to their children, discreet, chaste, diligent in home work, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of. The younger men in like manner exhort to be discreet: in all things affording thyself as a pattern of good works; in teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, a sound word, not to be condemned; that he who is opposed may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us: bondmen to be subject to their own masters, to make themselves acceptable in everything; not gainsaying; not robbing their masters, but shewing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the teaching which is of our Saviour God in all things. For the grace of God which carries with it salvation for all men has appeared, teaching us that, having denied impiety and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, and justly, and piously in the present course of things,

but we being of the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as helmet the hope of salvation;

So then do not let us sleep as the rest do, but let us watch and be sober;

Be vigilant, watch. Your adversary the devil as a roaring lion walks about seeking whom he may devour.

Wherefore, having girded up the loins of your mind, be sober and hope with perfect stedfastness in the grace which will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

Be vigilant, watch. Your adversary the devil as a roaring lion walks about seeking whom he may devour.

But the end of all things is drawn nigh: be sober therefore, and be watchful unto prayers;

So then do not let us sleep as the rest do, but let us watch and be sober;

but hospitable, a lover of goodness, discreet, just, pious, temperate,

The overseer then must be irreproachable, husband of one wife, sober, discreet, decorous, hospitable, apt to teach; not given to excesses from wine, not a striker, but mild, not addicted to contention, not fond of money,

The overseer then must be irreproachable, husband of one wife, sober, discreet, decorous, hospitable, apt to teach; not given to excesses from wine, not a striker, but mild, not addicted to contention, not fond of money,

The women in like manner grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

In like manner also that the women in decent deportment and dress adorn themselves with modesty and discretion, not with plaited hair and gold, or pearls, or costly clothing,

teaching us that, having denied impiety and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, and justly, and piously in the present course of things,

For the grace of God which carries with it salvation for all men has appeared, teaching us that, having denied impiety and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, and justly, and piously in the present course of things,

Be vigilant, watch. Your adversary the devil as a roaring lion walks about seeking whom he may devour.

But the end of all things is drawn nigh: be sober therefore, and be watchful unto prayers;

For I say, through the grace which has been given to me, to every one that is among you, not to have high thoughts above what he should think; but to think so as to be wise, as God has dealt to each a measure of faith.

But the end of all things is drawn nigh: be sober therefore, and be watchful unto prayers;

teaching us that, having denied impiety and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, and justly, and piously in the present course of things,

that they may admonish the young women to be attached to their husbands, to be attached to their children,

The younger men in like manner exhort to be discreet:

that the elder men be sober, grave, discreet, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

The women in like manner grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.