'Sober' in the Bible
But Paul *said, “I am not out of my mind, most excellent Festus, but I utter words of sober truth.
For by the grace given to me I ask every one of you not to think of yourself more highly than you should think, rather to think of yourself with sober judgment on the measure of faith that God has assigned each of you.
Sober up as you should, and stop sinning! For some have no knowledge of God -- I say this to your shame!
For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
But thou, be sober in all things, bear evils, do the work of an evangelist, fill up the full measure of thy ministry.
But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
sober, pure, keepers of their own houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.
training us to renounce ungodliness and all the pleasures of this world, and to live sober, upright, and pious lives at the present time,
Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.