Bible Verses about “being sober”
The Bible contains 8 verses about being sober across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“¶ Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:”
“And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;”
“A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;”
“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.”
“¶ 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;”
“That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.”
“¶ But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.”
“¶ Therefore let us not sleep, as [do] others; but let us watch and be sober.”