Temperate

Wine is a mocker, and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

It is not for kings, Lemuel; it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes to say, ‘Where is strong drink?’

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit the Kingdom of God.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

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

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.

that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in patience: — read the full passage →

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

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

For you were going astray like sheep; but now have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

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

They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.

if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at mixing strong drink;

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

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

This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work. — read the full passage →

Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ; To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and servants:

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. — read the full passage →

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.

Don’t look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.

Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.

God’s anger was kindled because he went; and Yahweh’s angel placed himself in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him.

“You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or you will die. This shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.

and made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on earth.”

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:

Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

saying, “I will declare your name to my brothers. In the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise.”

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking, and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you;

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you; which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities.

Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; — read the full passage →

Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh. — read the full passage →

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My lord delays his coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,

But he turned, and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men.”

Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. — read the full passage →

You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. — read the full passage →

If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which you are.

I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is a servant of the assembly that is at Cenchreae,

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

From Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to himself the elders of the assembly.

After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, took leave of them, and departed to go into Macedonia. — read the full passage →

‘It will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

Jesus answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”

He said to them, “I saw Satan having fallen like lightning from heaven.

When the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were fulfilled, they brought him up to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord — read the full passage →

But don’t you be called ‘Rabbi,’ for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers.

He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.

From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.

The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven. — read the full passage →

The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.

“Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit. — read the full passage →

Neither do people put new wine into old wine skins, or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved.”

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves. — read the full passage →

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers.

Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not glorified.

The king appointed for them a daily portion of the king’s dainties, and of the wine which he drank, and that they should be nourished three years; that at its end they should stand before the king.

The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons, not to drink wine, are performed; and to this day they drink none, for they obey their father’s commandment: but I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking; and you have not listened to me.

I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, didn’t fear; but she also went and played the prostitute.

The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent’s food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,” says Yahweh.

Thus says Yahweh, “As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, ‘Don’t destroy it, for a blessing is in it:’ so will I do for my servants’ sake, that I may not destroy them all.

I will tell the north, ‘Give them up!’ and tell the south, ‘Don’t hold them back! Bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth— — read the full passage →

Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!

They will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it.

The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat; The calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together; and a little child will lead them.

Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!

“Come now, and let us reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.

lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.

The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.