The King James Version Bible

Bible Verses About Being Sober

  • Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
  • Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
  • Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
  • But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
  • Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
  • A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
  • That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
  • And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
  • For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
  • Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it ...
  • But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
  • Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
  • But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.
  • But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
  • Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
  • Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
  • And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
  • I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
  • Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;