Bible Verses About Temperance

And they gaue them drinke in vessels of golde, and changed vessel after vessel, and royall wine in abundance according to the power of the King.

And the drinking was by an order, none might compel: for so the King had appoynted vnto all the officers of his house, that they should do according to euery mans pleasure.

When thou sittest to eate with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee,

And put the knife to thy throte, if thou be a man giuen to the appetite.

Be not desirous of his deintie meates: for it is a deceiuable meate.

If thou haue found hony, eate that is sufficient for thee, least thou be ouerfull, and vomit it.

But Daniel had determined in his heart, that hee woulde not defile him selfe with the portion of the Kings meate, nor with the wine which he dranke: therefore he required the chiefe of the Eunuches that he might not defile himselfe.

Proue thy seruants, I beseeche thee, ten dayes, and let them giue vs pulse to eate, and water to drinke.

Then let our countenances bee looked vpon before thee, and the countenances of the children that eate of the portion of the Kings meate: and as thou seest, deale with thy seruantes.

So hee consented to them in this matter, an proued them ten dayes.

And at the end of ten dayes, their countenances appeared fayrer, and in better liking then all the childrens, which did eate the portion of the Kings meate.

Thus Melzar tooke away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they should drinke, and gaue them pulse.

But put yee on the Lord JESUS CHRIST, and take no thought for the flesh, to fulfill the lustes of it.

And euery man that proueth masteries, abstaineth from all things: and they do it to obtaine a corruptible crowne: but we for an vncorruptible.

But I beate downe my body, and bring it into subiection, lest by any meanes after that I haue preached to other, I my selfe should be reproued.

Let your patient minde be knowen vnto all men. The Lord is at hand.

Therefore let vs not sleepe as do other, but let vs watch and be sober.

For they that sleepe, sleepe in the night, and they that be drunken, are drunken in the night.

But let vs which are of the day, be sober, putting on the brest plate of faith and loue, and of the hope of saluation for an helmet.

A Bishop therefore must be vnreproueable, the husband of one wife, watching, temperate, modest, harberous, apt to teache,

Not giuen to wine, no striker, not giuen to filthy lucre, but gentle, no fighter, not couetous,

Likewise must Deacons be graue, not double tongued, not giuen vnto much wine, neither to filthy lucre,

For a Bishop must bee vnreproueable, as Gods steward, not froward, not angrie, not giuen to wine, no striker, not giuen to filthie lucre,

But harberous, one that loueth goodnesse, wise, righteous, holy, temperate,

That the elder men be watchful, graue, teperate, sounde in the faith, in loue, and in patience: