TOPICAL BIBLE
Temperance
29 references in this topic.
Esther 1:7and the giving of drink in vessels of gold, and the vessels are divers vessels, and the royal wine is abundant, as a memorial of the king.Esther 1:8And the drinking is according to law, none is pressing, for so hath the king appointed for every chief one of his house, to do according to the pleasure of man and man.Proverbs 23:1When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Thou considerest diligently that which is before thee,Proverbs 23:2And thou hast put a knife to thy throat, If thou art a man of appetite.Proverbs 23:3Have no desire to his dainties, seeing it is lying food.Proverbs 25:16Honey thou hast found—eat thy sufficiency, Lest thou be satiated with it, and hast vomited it.Daniel 1:8And Daniel purposeth in his heart that he will not pollute himself with the king’s portion of food, and with the wine of his drinking, and he seeketh of the chief of the eunuchs that he may not pollute himself.Daniel 1:12‘Try, I pray thee, thy servants, ten days; and they give to us of the vegetables, and we eat, and water, and we drink;Daniel 1:13and our appearance is seen before thee, and the appearance of the lads who are eating the king’s portion of food, and as thou seest—deal with thy servants.’Daniel 1:14And he hearkeneth to them, to this word, and trieth them ten days:Daniel 1:15and at the end of ten days their appearance hath appeared better and fatter in flesh then any of the lads who are eating the king’s portion of food.Daniel 1:16And the Meltzar is taking away their portion of food, and the wine of their drink, and is giving to them vegetables.Romans 13:14but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and for the flesh take no forethought—for desires.1 Corinthians 9:25and every one who is striving, is in all things temperate; these, indeed, then, that a corruptible crown they may receive, but we an incorruptible;1 Corinthians 9:27but I chastise my body, and bring it into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others—I myself may become disapproved.Philippians 4:5let your forbearance be known to all men; the Lord is near;1 Thessalonians 5:6so, then, we may not sleep as also the others, but watch and be sober,1 Thessalonians 5:7for those sleeping, by night do sleep, and those making themselves drunk, by night are drunken,1 Thessalonians 5:8and we, being of the day—let us be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and an helmet—a hope of salvation,1 Timothy 3:2it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,1 Timothy 3:3not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,1 Timothy 3:8Ministrants—in like manner grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not given to filthy lucre,Titus 1:7for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre;Titus 1:8but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,Titus 2:2aged men to be temperate, grave, sober, sound in the faith, in the love, in the endurance;Titus 2:3aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers,Titus 2:12teaching us, that denying the impiety and the worldly desires, soberly and righteously and piously we may live in the present age,2 Peter 1:5And this same also—all diligence having brought in besides, superadd in your faith the worthiness, and in the worthiness the knowledge,2 Peter 1:6and in the knowledge the temperance, and in the temperance the endurance, and in the endurance the piety,
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