Bible Verses About Temperance: General references

and the giving of drink in vessels of gold, and the vessels are divers vessels, and the royal wine is abundant, as a memorial of the king.

And the drinking is according to law, none is pressing, for so hath the king appointed for every chief one of his house, to do according to the pleasure of man and man.

When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Thou considerest diligently that which is before thee,

And thou hast put a knife to thy throat, If thou art a man of appetite.

Have no desire to his dainties, seeing it is lying food.

Honey thou hast found--eat thy sufficiency, Lest thou be satiated with it, and hast vomited it.

And Daniel purposeth in his heart that he will not pollute himself with the king's portion of food, and with the wine of his drinking, and he seeketh of the chief of the eunuchs that he may not pollute himself.

`Try, I pray thee, thy servants, ten days; and they give to us of the vegetables, and we eat, and water, and we drink;

and our appearance is seen before thee, and the appearance of the lads who are eating the king's portion of food, and as thou seest--deal with thy servants.'

And he hearkeneth to them, to this word, and trieth them ten days:

and at the end of ten days their appearance hath appeared better and fatter in flesh then any of the lads who are eating the king's portion of food.

And the Meltzar is taking away their portion of food, and the wine of their drink, and is giving to them vegetables.

but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and for the flesh take no forethought--for desires.

and every one who is striving, is in all things temperate; these, indeed, then, that a corruptible crown they may receive, but we an incorruptible;

but I chastise my body, and bring it into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others--I myself may become disapproved.

let your forbearance be known to all men; the Lord is near;

so, then, we may not sleep as also the others, but watch and be sober,

for those sleeping, by night do sleep, and those making themselves drunk, by night are drunken,

and we, being of the day--let us be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and an helmet--a hope of salvation,

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,

Ministrants--in like manner grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not given to filthy lucre,

for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre;

but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,

aged men to be temperate, grave, sober, sound in the faith, in the love, in the endurance;