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Temperance

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Esther 1:7They gave them drinks in golden vessels of various kinds, including royal wine in abundance, according to the bounty of the king.Esther 1:8In 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 23:1When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you;Proverbs 23:2put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.Proverbs 23:3Don’t be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.Proverbs 25:16Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it.Daniel 1:8But 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 1:12Test your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink.Daniel 1:13Then 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 1:14So he listened to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.Daniel 1:15At 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 1:16So the steward took away their dainties, and the wine that they should drink, and gave them pulse.Romans 13:14But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.1 Corinthians 9:25Every 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 9:27but 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 4:5Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.1 Thessalonians 5:6so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.1 Thessalonians 5:7For those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.1 Thessalonians 5:8But 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 3:2The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;1 Timothy 3:3not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;1 Timothy 3:8Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money;Titus 1:7For 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 1:8but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled;Titus 2:2that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in patience:Titus 2:3and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;Titus 2:12instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world;2 Peter 1:5Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;2 Peter 1:6and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control patience; and in patience godliness;