Bible Verses About Temperance

They gave them drinks in golden vessels of various kinds, including royal wine in abundance, according to the bounty of the king.

In accordance with the law, the drinking was not compulsory; for so the king had instructed all the officials of his house, that they should do according to every man’s pleasure.

When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you;

put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.

Don’t be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.

Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it.

But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king’s dainties, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

Test your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink.

Then let our faces be looked on before you, and the face of the youths who eat of the king’s dainties; and as you see, deal with your servants.

So he listened to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.

At the end of ten days their faces appeared fairer, and they were fatter in flesh, than all the youths who ate of the king’s dainties.

So the steward took away their dainties, and the wine that they should drink, and gave them pulse.

But put on the Lord Yeshua the Messiah, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.

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

For those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

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

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money;

For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward; not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

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

that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in patience: