4 Bible Verses about Temperance

And in knowledge self-control; and in self-control patience; and in patience devotion;

And he said to his disciples, Therefore I say to you, Have no anxiety for your soul, what ye eat; nor for the body what ye put on.

If thou shalt sit to eat with a ruler, understanding, thou shalt understand what is before thee. And put a knife to thy swallow if thou the possessor of a soul.

Whether therefore ye eat, whether ye drink, or what ye do, do ye all things to the glory of God.

Every thing being sold in the market, eat, ye, interrogating nothing through consciousness:

Thou wilt not incline my heart to an evil word, to work works in injustice with men doing iniquity: and I will not eat upon their dainties.

A man of poverty loving joy: he loving wine and oil shall not be rich.

If thou shalt sit to eat with a ruler, understanding, thou shalt understand what is before thee. And put a knife to thy swallow if thou the possessor of a soul.

Thou didst find honey; eat thy sufficiency, lest thou shalt be satiated, and thou vomit it forth.

And he discoursing of justice, and temperance, and judgment about to be, Felix being terrified, answered, Having now, go; having taken time, I will recall thee.

And every one contending for the prize, has self command in all things. These surely therefore that they might receive a corruptible crown; and we an incorruptible.

For the time of life passed over sufficient for us to have wrought the will of the nations, having gone in licentiousness, eager desires, drunkenness, revellings, drinkings, and criminal idolatries:

He watching the law a son understanding: and the companion of squanderers will shame his father.

Receiving the reward of injustice, deeming luxurious indulgence pleasure in the day. Spots and blemishes, rioting in their deceits, feasting together with you

Envyings, slaughters, drunkenness, revelries, and the like: to these which I foretell you, as I have also said before, that they doing such shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Belshazzar the king made great food for a thousand of his nobles, and before the thousand he drank wine.

Thou shalt not be with those drinking wine to excess, and with squanderers of flesh to them:

But I give my body a blow under the eyes, and reduce to bondage: lest having proclaimed to others, I myself be rejected.

And he said to his disciples, Therefore I say to you, Have no anxiety for your soul, what ye eat; nor for the body what ye put on.

And attend to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be loaded with dizziness, caused by excess, and drunkenness, and cares of life, and that day come upon you unexpectedly.

If thou shalt sit to eat with a ruler, understanding, thou shalt understand what is before thee. And put a knife to thy swallow if thou the possessor of a soul.

A thorn going up into the hand of a drunkard, a parable in the mouth of the foolish.

Wo to the strong to drink wine, and men of strength to mix strong drink:

With the feet shall the crown of pride, the hirelings of Ephraim, be trodden down.

Awake, ye intoxicated, and weep; and wail, all ye drinking wine, on account of the new wine, for it was cut off from your mouth.

For even to thorns surrounding them, and drinking to excess as drunkards, they shall be devoured as straw fully dried up.

From wine and strong drink he shall be separated; vinegar of wine and vinegar of strong drink he shall not drip and the steeping of grapes he shall not drink, and grapes fresh and dry, he shall not eat

Bread ye ate not, and wine and strong drink ye drank not; so that ye shall know that I am Jehovah your God.

And now, watch now, and drink not wine and strong drink, and thou shalt not eat any thing unclean:

And for my people they cast the lot: and they will give the boy for a harlot, and they sold the girl for wine; and they will drink

And if that servant should say in his heart, My Lord delays to come; and should begin to strike the servants and maids, also to eat and drink, and to be intoxicated;

For each takes his own supper in eating: and one is truly hungry, and one is intoxicated.

And Daniel will set up upon his heart that he will not be defiled with the dainties of the king, and with the wine of his drinking: and he will seek from the chief of the eunuchs that he shall not defile himself.

Bread of desires I ate not, and flesh and wine came not into my mouth, and anointing, I did not anoint myself even to the filling up of three weeks of days.

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He has an evil spirit.

Good not to eat flesh, nor drink wine, nor in what thy brother stumbles, or is offended, or is weak.

Wherefore, if food offend my brother, I will eat no flesh forever, lest I shall offend my brother.

All things are lawful to me, but all are not profitable: all are lawful to me, but I will not be exercised by power under any.

Therefore let not sin reign in your mortal body, to listen to it in its passions.

He slow to anger is, good above the strong; and, he ruling over his spirit above him taking a city,

A city being broken down, and not a wall, a man who restrains not to his spirit.

He slow to anger is, good above the strong; and, he ruling over his spirit above him taking a city,

Simon Peter, servant and sent of Jesus Christ, to them having received by inheritance equally honoured faith with us in the justice of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ: May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, As his divine power having bestowed upon us all things which for life and devotion, by the knowledge of him having called us by glory and fitness: read more.
(By which the greatest and precious promises are bestowed upon us: that by these ye might be having escaped from the corruption in the world through eager desires.) And also this same, having brought in at the side all earnestness, furnish in addition in your faith fitness; and In fitness knowledge; And in knowledge self-control; and in self-control patience; and in patience devotion; And in devotion brotherly love; and in brotherly love, love. For these being to you, and abounding, they establish you not without effort, neither unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For in whom these are not present, he is blind, being affected with shortness of sight, having taken 2Peter 1:forgetfulness of the cleansing formerly of his sins. Wherefore rather, brethren, be earnest to have your calling and selection made firm: for doing these, ye should not once stumble: For so shall an entrance be furnished richly to you in addition into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

A city being broken down, and not a wall, a man who restrains not to his spirit.

Simon Peter, servant and sent of Jesus Christ, to them having received by inheritance equally honoured faith with us in the justice of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ: May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, As his divine power having bestowed upon us all things which for life and devotion, by the knowledge of him having called us by glory and fitness: read more.
(By which the greatest and precious promises are bestowed upon us: that by these ye might be having escaped from the corruption in the world through eager desires.) And also this same, having brought in at the side all earnestness, furnish in addition in your faith fitness; and In fitness knowledge; And in knowledge self-control; and in self-control patience; and in patience devotion; And in devotion brotherly love; and in brotherly love, love. For these being to you, and abounding, they establish you not without effort, neither unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For in whom these are not present, he is blind, being affected with shortness of sight, having taken 2Peter 1:forgetfulness of the cleansing formerly of his sins.

Do ye not know that they running in a race-course, all truly run, and one receives the prize of combat? Do ye so run, that ye might receive. And every one contending for the prize, has self command in all things. These surely therefore that they might receive a corruptible crown; and we an incorruptible.

Wine and strong drink thou shalt not drink, thou and thy sons with thee, in your going in to the tent of appointment; and ye shall not die: a law forever to your generations.

Thou shalt not look upon wine when it shall be red, when it shall give its eye in the cup, it will go about in uprightnesses.

And Abigail will go to Nabal; and behold, to him a drinking in his house as the drinking of a king; and Nabal's heart good with him, and he was intoxicated even greatly; and she announced not to him a word small and great till the light of the morning.

And David will call for him, and he will eat before him and drink; and he will make him drunk: and he will go forth in the evening to lie upon his bed with the servants of his lord; and he will not go down to his house.

And they will go forth at noon. And Ben-hadad was drinking strong drink in the booths, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings helping him.

And they will say, We shall not drink wine: for Jonadab, son of Rechab our father, commanded to us, saying, Ye shall not drink wine, ye and your sons even to forever.

Not for kings, O Lemuel, not for kings to drink and for princes the desire of strong drink:

And also this same, having brought in at the side all earnestness, furnish in addition in your faith fitness; and In fitness knowledge; And in knowledge self-control; and in self-control patience; and in patience devotion; And in devotion brotherly love; and in brotherly love, love.

Come ye, I will take wine, and we will drink strong drink to excess; and the morrow being as this day, the remainder great exceedingly.

And Zimri, captain of half his chariots will conspire against him, and he in Tirzah drinking strong drink in the house of Arza, who was over his house in Tirzah.

And he will drink of the wine and he will be intoxicated, and will be uncovered within his tent

In the seventh day, as the heart of the king being good with wine, he said to Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven eunuchs serving the face of king Ahasuerus,

And do thou speak what becomes sound doctrine: The aged men to be sober, grave, of sound mind, sound in the faith, in love, in patience.

And he discoursing of justice, and temperance, and judgment about to be, Felix being terrified, answered, Having now, go; having taken time, I will recall thee.

The day of our king the chiefs began anger from wine; stretching forth his hand with mockers.

For he shall be great before the Lord, and wine and fermented liquor he should not drink; and with the Holy Spirit shall he be filled, even from his mother's womb.

For in many things we all stumble. If any stumble not in word, this a perfect man, able to govern by a bridle also the whole body.