Sobriety in the Bible

(Clear thinking) Commanded

• 1 Peter 1:13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
• 1 Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

⇒Definition of sobriety

The gospel designed to teach

• Titus 2:12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

⇒"Sobriety" Bible Outline

With watchfulness

• 1 Thessalonians 5:6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

⇒See also McClintock and Strong Cyclopedia for Sobriety.

With prayer

• 1 Peter 4:7 But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.

Required in

God's servants

• 1 Timothy 3:2-3 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; 3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
• Titus 1:8 But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;

Wives of servants of God

• 1 Timothy 3:11 Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

Aged men

• Titus 2:2 That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.

Young men

• Titus 2:6 Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.

Young women

• Titus 2:4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

All saints

• 1 Thessalonians 5:6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
• 1 Thessalonians 5:8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.

Women should exhibit in dress

• 1 Timothy 2:9 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;

We should estimate our character and talents with

• Romans 12:3 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.

We should live in

• Titus 2:12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

Motive for

• 1 Peter 4:7 But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
• 1 Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

See TEMPERANCE

See DRUNKENNESS