5 Bible Verses about Sobriety

Do not look upon the wine when it is red, when it gives its color in the cup, when it goes down smoothly

Be sensible and vigilant, because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking someone he may devour;

Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in carousings and drinking; not in co-habitation and lustful acts; not in strife and envy.

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

But the end of all things has drawn near. Therefore be of sound mind, and be sensible to prayers.

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes to lust for strong drink; lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted. Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish, and wine to those who are of heavy hearts. read more.
Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

Faithful is the Word: If anyone reaches out to overseership, he desires a good work. Then it behooves the overseer to be without reproach, husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, well-ordered, hospitable, apt at teaching, not a drunkard, not contentious, not greedy of ill gain, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous, read more.
ruling his own house well, having children in subjection with all honor. (For if a man does not know to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) not a novice, lest being puffed up he may fall into the condemnation of the Devil. But he must also have a good report from those on the outside, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the Devil. Likewise the deacons are to be reverent, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of ill gain, having the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. And let these also first be tested, then let them minister without reproach. Even so their wives are to be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

But you speak the things which become sound doctrine: aged men to be temperate, sensible, discreet, sound in faith, in love, in patience. Let the aged women likewise be in reverent behavior, not slanderers, not enslaved by much wine, teachers of good; read more.
that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, subject to their own husbands, that the Word of God may not be blasphemed. Likewise exhort the young men to be discreet; In all things having shown yourself a pattern of good works: in the doctrine, purity, sensibleness, without corruption, in sound speech that cannot be condemned, that he who is opposed may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you. Slaves are to be obedient to their masters, to please them well in all things, not talking against, not stealing, but showing all good faith, so that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things. For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that having denied ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live discreetly, righteously and godly, in this present world,

But let us, who are of the day, be calm, having put on the breastplate of faith and love and the hope of salvation for a helmet.

Therefore let us not sleep as the rest do, but let us watch and be calm.

Be sensible and vigilant, because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking someone he may devour;

Therefore girding up the loins of your mind, being sober, perfectly hope for the grace being brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

Be sensible and vigilant, because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking someone he may devour;

But the end of all things has drawn near. Therefore be of sound mind, and be sensible to prayers.

Therefore let us not sleep as the rest do, but let us watch and be calm.

but hospitable, a lover of good, discreet, just, holy, temperate,

Then it behooves the overseer to be without reproach, husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, well-ordered, hospitable, apt at teaching, not a drunkard, not contentious, not greedy of ill gain, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous,

Then it behooves the overseer to be without reproach, husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, well-ordered, hospitable, apt at teaching, not a drunkard, not contentious, not greedy of ill gain, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous,

Even so their wives are to be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

In the same way also, I desire that women adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and sensibleness, not adorned with braiding, or gold, or pearls, or costly clothing,

teaching us that having denied ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live discreetly, righteously and godly, in this present world,

For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that having denied ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live discreetly, righteously and godly, in this present world,

Be sensible and vigilant, because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking someone he may devour;

But the end of all things has drawn near. Therefore be of sound mind, and be sensible to prayers.

For I say, through the grace given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think. But set your mind to be right-minded, even as God has dealt to every man the measure of faith.

But the end of all things has drawn near. Therefore be of sound mind, and be sensible to prayers.

teaching us that having denied ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live discreetly, righteously and godly, in this present world,

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

Likewise exhort the young men to be discreet;

aged men to be temperate, sensible, discreet, sound in faith, in love, in patience.

Even so their wives are to be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.