TEMPERANCE

Passages on this topic · 29

• Esther 1:7

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

• Esther 1:8

  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.

• Proverbs 23:1

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

• Proverbs 23:2

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

• Proverbs 23:3

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

• Proverbs 25:16

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

• Daniel 1:8

  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.

• Daniel 1:12

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

• Daniel 1:13

  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.

• Daniel 1:14

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

• Daniel 1:15

  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.

• Daniel 1:16

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

• Romans 13:14

  But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

• 1 Corinthians 9:25

  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.

• 1 Corinthians 9:27

  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.

• Philippians 4:5

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

• 1 Thessalonians 5:6

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

• 1 Thessalonians 5:7

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

• 1 Thessalonians 5:8

  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.

• 1 Timothy 3:2

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

• 1 Timothy 3:3

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

• 1 Timothy 3:8

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

• Titus 1:7

  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;

• Titus 1:8

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

• Titus 2:2

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

• Titus 2:3

  and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

• Titus 2:12

  instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world;

• 2 Peter 1:5

  Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

• 2 Peter 1:6

  and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control perseverance; and in perseverance godliness;