Bible Verses About Sobriety

For I am telling every single one of you, through the grace that has been given to me, not to have exaggerated ideas about your own importance. Instead, develop a sober estimate of yourself based on the standard which God has given to each of you, namely, trust.

so let’s not be asleep, like the rest are; on the contrary, let us stay alert and sober.

But since we belong to the day, let us stay sober, putting on trust and love as a breastplate and the hope of being delivered as a helmet.

Likewise, the women, when they pray, should be dressed modestly and sensibly in respectable attire, not with elaborate hairstyles and gold jewelry, or pearls, or expensive clothes.

A congregation leader must be above reproach, he must be faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, orderly, hospitable and able to teach.

He must not drink excessively or get into fights; rather, he must be kind and gentle. He must not be a lover of money.

Similarly, the wives must be of good character, not gossips, but temperate, faithful in everything.

On the contrary, he must be hospitable, devoted to good, sober-mindedness, uprightness, holiness and self-control.

Tell the older men to be serious, sensible, self-controlled and sound in their trust, love and perseverance.

thus training the younger women to love their husbands and children,

Similarly, urge the young men to be self-controlled,

For God’s grace, which brings deliverance, has appeared to all people.

It teaches us to renounce godlessness and worldly pleasures, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives now, in this age;

Therefore, get your minds ready for work, keep yourselves under control, and fix your hopes fully on the gift you will receive when Yeshua the Messiah is revealed.

The accomplishing of the goal of all things is close at hand. Therefore, keep alert and self-controlled, so that you can pray.

Stay sober, stay alert! Your enemy, the Adversary, stalks about like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.