Sobriety

“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.”

“Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.”

“It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age,”

“So then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain awake and sober.”

“The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear-minded and sober, so that you can pray.”

“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.”

“Instead, he must be hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.”