Bible Verses About Sobriety

Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:

For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.

If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.

But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.

This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.

Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:

What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.

It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.

And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:

And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.

For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.