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Bible Verses About Sobriety

16 verses · 16 aspects

Key Bible Verses

  1. For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but so to think as to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to each man a measure of faith.

  2. so then let us not sleep, as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober.

  3. But let us, since we are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

  4. In like manner, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefastness and sobriety; not with braided hair, and gold or pearls or costly raiment;

  5. The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

  6. no brawler, no striker; but gentle, not contentious, no lover of money;

  7. Women in like manner must be grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

  8. but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled;

  9. that aged men be temperate, grave, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience:

  10. that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

  11. the younger men likewise exhort to be sober-minded:

  12. For the grace of God hath appeared, bringing salvation to all men,

  13. instructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world;

  14. Wherefore girding up the loins of your mind, be sober and set your hope perfectly on the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

  15. But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore of sound mind, and be sober unto prayer:

  16. Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: