5 Bible Verses about Sobriety

Keep cool, keep awake. Your enemy the devil prowls like a roaring lion, looking out for someone to devour.

let us live decorously as in the open light of day ??no revelry or bouts of drinking, no debauchery or sensuality, no quarrelling or jealousy.

and do not get drunk with wine ??that means profligacy ??but be filled with the Spirit,

Now the end of all is near. Steady then, keep cool and pray!

It is a popular saying that "whoever aspires to office is set upon an excellent occupation." Well, for the office of a bishop a man must be above reproach; he must be only married once, he must be temperate, master of himself, unruffled, hospitable, a skilled teacher, not a drunkard or violent, but lenient and conciliatory, not a lover of money, read more.
able to manage his own household properly and keep his children submissive and perfectly respectful (if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how is he to look after the church of God?); he must not be a new convert, in case he gets conceited and incurs the doom passed on the devil; also, he must have a good reputation among outsiders, in case he incurs slander and is trapped by the devil. Deacons in turn are to be serious men; they are not to be tale-bearers or addicted to drink or pilfering; they must maintain the divine truth of the faith with a pure conscience. They too must be put on probation; after that, if they are above reproach, they can serve as deacons. Their wives must be serious too; they must not be slanderers but temperate and absolutely trustworthy.

You must instruct people in what is due to sound doctrine. Tell the older men to be temperate, serious, masters of themselves, sound in faith, in love, and in stedfastness. Tell the older women also to be reverent in their demeanour and not to be slanderers or slaves to drink; read more.
they must give good counsel, so that the young women may be trained to love their husbands and children, to be mistress of themselves, chaste, domestic, kind, and submissive to their husbands ??otherwise it will be a scandal to the gospel. Tell the young men also to be masters of themselves at all points; set them an example of good conduct; be sincere and serious in your teaching, let your words be sound and such that no exception can be taken to them, so that the opposite side may be confounded by finding nothing that they can say to our discredit. Tell servants to be submissive to their masters and to give them satisfaction all round, not to be refractory, not to embezzle, but to prove themselves truly faithful at all points, so as to be an ornament to the doctrine of God our Saviour in all respects. For the grace of God has appeared to save all men, and it schools us to renounce irreligion and worldly passions and to live a life of self-mastery, of integrity, and of piety in this present world,

but we must be sober, we who belong to the day, clad in faith and love as our coat of mail, with the hope of salvation as our helmet ??9 for God destined us not for Wrath but to gain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Well then, we must not sleep like the rest of men, but be wakeful and sober;

Keep cool, keep awake. Your enemy the devil prowls like a roaring lion, looking out for someone to devour.

Brace up your minds, then, keep cool, and put your hope for good and all in the grace that is coming to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Keep cool, keep awake. Your enemy the devil prowls like a roaring lion, looking out for someone to devour.

Now the end of all is near. Steady then, keep cool and pray!

Well then, we must not sleep like the rest of men, but be wakeful and sober;

he must be hospitable, a lover of goodness, master of himself, a just man, a religious man, and abstemious;

Well, for the office of a bishop a man must be above reproach; he must be only married once, he must be temperate, master of himself, unruffled, hospitable, a skilled teacher, not a drunkard or violent, but lenient and conciliatory, not a lover of money,

Well, for the office of a bishop a man must be above reproach; he must be only married once, he must be temperate, master of himself, unruffled, hospitable, a skilled teacher, not a drunkard or violent, but lenient and conciliatory, not a lover of money,

Their wives must be serious too; they must not be slanderers but temperate and absolutely trustworthy.

Women in turn are to dress modestly and quietly in seemly garb; they are not to adorn themselves with plaits of hair, with gold or pearls or expensive finery,

and it schools us to renounce irreligion and worldly passions and to live a life of self-mastery, of integrity, and of piety in this present world,

For the grace of God has appeared to save all men, and it schools us to renounce irreligion and worldly passions and to live a life of self-mastery, of integrity, and of piety in this present world,

Keep cool, keep awake. Your enemy the devil prowls like a roaring lion, looking out for someone to devour.

Now the end of all is near. Steady then, keep cool and pray!

In virtue of my office, I tell everyone of your number who is self-important, that he is not to think more of himself than he ought to think; he must take a sane view of himself, corresponding to the degree of faith which God has assigned to each.

Now the end of all is near. Steady then, keep cool and pray!

and it schools us to renounce irreligion and worldly passions and to live a life of self-mastery, of integrity, and of piety in this present world,

they must give good counsel, so that the young women may be trained to love their husbands and children,

Tell the young men also to be masters of themselves at all points;

Tell the older men to be temperate, serious, masters of themselves, sound in faith, in love, and in stedfastness.

Their wives must be serious too; they must not be slanderers but temperate and absolutely trustworthy.