Sobriety

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

(Clear thinking)

Commanded

• 1 Peter 1:13 Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
• 1 Peter 5:8 Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

The gospel designed to teach

• Titus 2:12 It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

With watchfulness

• 1 Thessalonians 5:6 So then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain awake and sober.

With prayer

• 1 Peter 4:7 The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear-minded and sober, so that you can pray.

Required in

God' s servants

• 1 Timothy 3:2–3 An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not dependent on wine, not violent but gentle, peaceable, and free of the love of money.
• Titus 1:8 Instead, he must be hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.

Wives of servants of God

• 1 Timothy 3:11 In the same way, the women must be dignified, not slanderers, but temperate and faithful in all things.

Aged men

• Titus 2:2 Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, and sound in faith, love, and perseverance.

Young men

• Titus 2:6 In the same way, urge the younger men to be self-controlled.

Young women

• Titus 2:4 In this way they can train the young women to love their husbands and children,

All saints

• 1 Thessalonians 5:6 So then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain awake and sober.
• 1 Thessalonians 5:8 But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and the helmet of our hope of salvation.

Women should exhibit in dress

• 1 Timothy 2:9 Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes,

We should estimate our character and talents with

• Romans 12:3 For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but think of yourself with sober judgment, according to the measure of faith God has given you.

We should live in

• Titus 2:12 It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

Motive for

• 1 Peter 4:7 The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear-minded and sober, so that you can pray.
• 1 Peter 5:8 Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

See Temperance

See Drunkenness