Bible Verses About Temperance: General references

And they that were invited, drank in golden cups, and the meats were brought in divers vessels one after another. Wine also in abundance and of the best was presented, as was worthy of a king's magnificence.

Neither was there any one to compel them to drink that were not willing, but as the king had appointed, who set over every table one of his nobles, that every man might take what he would.

When thou shalt sit to eat with a prince, consider diligently what is set before thy face:

And put a knife to thy throat, if it be so that thou have thy soul in thy own power.

Be not desirous of his meats, in which is the bread of deceit.

Thou hast found honey, eat what is sufficient for thee, lest being glutted therewith thou vomit it up.

But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not be defiled with the king's table, nor with the wine which he drank: and he requested the master of the eunuchs that he might not be defiled.

Try, I beseech thee, thy servants for ten days, and let pulse be given us to eat, and water to drink:

And look upon our faces, and the faces of the children that eat of the king's meat: and as thou shalt see, deal with thy servants.

And when he had heard these words, he tried them for ten days.

And after ten days, their faces appeared fairer and fatter than all the children that ate of the king's meat.

So Malasar took their portions, and the wine that they should drink: and he gave them pulse.

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ: and make not provision for the flesh in its concupiscences.

And every one that striveth for the mastery refraineth himself from all things. And they indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown: but we an incorruptible one.

But I chastise my body and bring it into subjection: lest perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should become a castaway.

Let your modesty be known to all men. The Lord is nigh.

Therefore, let us not sleep, as others do: but let us watch, and be sober.

For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that are drunk, are drunk in the night.

But let us, who are of the day, be sober, having on the breast plate of faith and charity and, for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

It behoveth therefore a bishop to be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, prudent, of good behaviour, chaste, given to hospitality, a teacher,

Not given to wine, no striker, but modest, not quarrelsome, not covetous, but

Deacons in like manner: chaste, not double tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre:

For a bishop must be without crime, as the steward of God: not proud, not subject to anger, nor given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre:

But given to hospitality, gentle, sober, just, holy, continent:

That the aged men be sober, chaste, prudent, sound in faith, in love, in patience.