'Excess' in the Bible
But let your language be, 'Yes, yes,' or 'No, no.' Anything in excess of this comes from the Evil one.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
But if that servant should say in his heart, 'My Master is a long time in coming,' and should begin to beat the menservants and the maids, and to eat and drink, drinking even to excess;
No long time afterwards the younger son got all together and travelled to a distant country, where he wasted his money in debauchery and excess.
For each one in eating takes his own supper before others, and one is hungry and another drinks to excess.
So that you may now take the opposite course, and forgive him rather and comfort him, for fear he should perhaps be driven to despair by his excess of grief.
According as it is written, He who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little was nothing short.
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as being beside myself) I above measure so; in labours exceedingly abundant, in stripes to excess, in prisons exceedingly abundant, in deaths oft.
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
if any one be free from all charge against him, husband of one wife, having believing children not accused of excess or unruly.
Therefore, ridding yourselves of all moral filth and evil, humbly receive the implanted word, which is able to save you.
For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you: