5 Bible Verses about Sobriety

Be calm and alert. Your opponent the devil is always prowling about like a roaring lion, trying to devour you.

Let us live becomingly for people who are in the light of day, not in carousing and drunkenness, nor in sexual immorality and licentiousness, nor in quarreling and jealousy.

Stop getting drunk on wine, for that means profligacy, but ever be filled with the Spirit,

But the end of everything on earth is near. So be serious and sober minded, that you may give yourselves to prayer.

This is a saying to be trusted: "Whoever aspires to the office of pastor desires an excellent work." So the pastor must be a man above reproach, must have only one wife, must be temperate, sensible, well-behaved, hospitable, skillful in teaching; not addicted to strong drink, not pugnacious, gentle and not contentious, not avaricious, read more.
managing his own house well, with perfect seriousness keeping his children under control (if a man does not know how to manage his own house, how can he take care of a church of God?). He must not be a new convert, or else becoming conceited he may incur the doom the devil met. He must also have a good reputation with outsiders, or else he may incur reproach and fall into the devil's trap. Deacons, too, must be serious, sincere in their talk, not addicted to strong drink or dishonest gain, but they must continue to hold the open secret of faith with a clear conscience. They, too, should first be tested till approved, and then, if they are found above reproach, they should serve as deacons. The deaconesses too must be serious, not gossips; they must be temperate and perfectly trustworthy.

You must continue telling the people what is proper for wholesome teaching: the older men to be temperate, serious, and sensible, healthy in faith, in love, and in steadfastness; the older women, too, to be reverent in their deportment, and not to be slanderers or slaves to heavy drinking, but to be teachers of what is right, read more.
so as to train the younger women to be affectionate wives and mothers, to be serious, pure, home keepers, kind, and subordinate to their husbands, so as not to cause God's message to suffer reproach. Keep urging the younger men to be sensible. In everything you yourself continue to set them a worthy example of doing good; be sincere and serious in your teaching, let your message be wholesome and unobjectionable, so that our opponent may be put to shame at having nothing evil to say about us. Continue urging slaves to practice perfect submission to their masters and to give them perfect satisfaction, to stop resisting them and stealing from them, but to show such perfect fidelity as to adorn, in everything they do, the teaching of God our Saviour. For God's favor has appeared with its offer of salvation to all mankind, training us to give up godless ways and worldly cravings and live serious, upright, and godly lives in this world,

but let us who belong to the day keep sober, clothed with faith and love for a coat of mail and with the hope of salvation for a helmet.

So let us stop sleeping as others do, but let us stay awake and keep sober.

Be calm and alert. Your opponent the devil is always prowling about like a roaring lion, trying to devour you.

Therefore, as a means of spiritual preparation, tighten up the belt about your minds, keep perfectly calm, keep your hope on the spiritual blessing to be conferred upon you at the unveiling of Jesus Christ.

Be calm and alert. Your opponent the devil is always prowling about like a roaring lion, trying to devour you.

But the end of everything on earth is near. So be serious and sober minded, that you may give yourselves to prayer.

So let us stop sleeping as others do, but let us stay awake and keep sober.

but hospitable, a lover of goodness, sensible, upright, of pure life, self-controlled,

So the pastor must be a man above reproach, must have only one wife, must be temperate, sensible, well-behaved, hospitable, skillful in teaching; not addicted to strong drink, not pugnacious, gentle and not contentious, not avaricious,

So the pastor must be a man above reproach, must have only one wife, must be temperate, sensible, well-behaved, hospitable, skillful in teaching; not addicted to strong drink, not pugnacious, gentle and not contentious, not avaricious,

The deaconesses too must be serious, not gossips; they must be temperate and perfectly trustworthy.

I want the women, on their part, to dress becomingly, that is, modestly and sensibly, not adorning themselves with braided hair and gold or pearls or expensive dresses,

training us to give up godless ways and worldly cravings and live serious, upright, and godly lives in this world,

For God's favor has appeared with its offer of salvation to all mankind, training us to give up godless ways and worldly cravings and live serious, upright, and godly lives in this world,

Be calm and alert. Your opponent the devil is always prowling about like a roaring lion, trying to devour you.

But the end of everything on earth is near. So be serious and sober minded, that you may give yourselves to prayer.

Now through the unmerited favor God has shown me I would say to every one of you not to estimate himself above his real value, but to make a sober rating of himself, in accordance with the degree of faith which God has apportioned to him.

But the end of everything on earth is near. So be serious and sober minded, that you may give yourselves to prayer.

training us to give up godless ways and worldly cravings and live serious, upright, and godly lives in this world,

so as to train the younger women to be affectionate wives and mothers,

Keep urging the younger men to be sensible.

the older men to be temperate, serious, and sensible, healthy in faith, in love, and in steadfastness;

The deaconesses too must be serious, not gossips; they must be temperate and perfectly trustworthy.