13 Bible Verses about Moderation

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance; against such there is no law.

For the grace of God that pertains to salvation appeared to all men, teaching us, that denying impiety and worldly desires we should live soberly, and righteously, and piously in the present life,

Again, you have heard that it was said by the ancients, You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform to the Lord your oaths. But I tell you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven, for it is God's throne; nor by the earth, for it is his footstool, nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King;read more.
nor swear by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black. But let your speech be, yes, yes, and no, no; for any thing more than this is evil.

Let your words always be with kindness, seasoned with salt, that you may know how to answer every one.

And be not drunk with wine, in which is excess, but be filled with the spirit,

Therefore let us not sleep as others, but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night, and they that are drunk drink in the night; but let us who are of day be sober, putting on a cuirass of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation,

It is necessary therefore that a bishop should be blameless, a husband of one wife, circumspect, sober, well-behaved, hospitable, apt to teach, not a wine-drinker, not a quarrelsome man, but gentle, not contentious, not avaricious,

For a bishop must be blameless as a steward of God, not self-indulgent, not soon angry, not given to wine, not contentious, not devoted to base gain, but a lover of hospitality, kind, sober, just, holy, self-denying,

That the aged men be sober, grave, of sound mind, sound in faith, in love, in patience; that the aged women, in like manner, be of behavior becoming holiness, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is good, that they may instruct the young women to be lovers of their husbands, lovers of their children,read more.
sober, pure, fond of home, kind, subject to their husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed. In like manner exhort the younger to be of a sound mind, presenting yourself as an example of good works in all things, in teaching [exhibiting] integrity, gravity, sound argument not to be condemned, that the adversary may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say of us.

Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, and anise, and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law, justice, mercy, and faith. These you ought to do, and not neglect the others. Blind guides! who strain out a gnat and swallow down a camel. Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and platter, but within they are full of plunder and excess.read more.
Blind Pharisee! cleanse first that which is in the cup and platter, that its outside may be clean also.

What then is [to be done] brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a doctrine, has a revelation, has an interpretation; let all things be done for edification. If any one speaks with a tongue, let it be by two or at most by three, and by turns, and let one interpret; and if there is no interpreter, let him be silent in the assembly, and let him speak to himself and to God.read more.
Let two or three prophets speak, and let the rest judge; but if any thing is revealed to another sitting by, let the first be silent. For you can all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all be comforted. And the spirits of prophets are subject to the prophets; for God is not [the friend] of disorder but of peace.

I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot. Because therefore you are warm, and neither hot nor cold, I am about to spew you out of my mouth.

And to the angel of the church in Sardis write, These things says he that has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars, I know your works, that you have a name to live, and are dead. Be watchful, confirm the rest who are about to die. For I have not found your works perfect before my God.