Bible Verses about “everything in moderation”
The Bible contains 43 verses about everything in moderation across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?”
“For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.”
“Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things [are] honest, whatsoever things [are] just, whatsoever things [are] pure, whatsoever things [are] lovely, whatsoever things [are] of good report; if [there be] any virtue, and if [there be] any praise, think on these things.”
“¶ 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;”
“¶ To every [thing there is] a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:”
“A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;”
“A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.”
“A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up [that which is] planted;”
“A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;”
“¶ All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.”
“A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;”
“A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;”
“A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;”
“And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they [do it] to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.”
“For every creature of God [is] good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:”
“For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.”
“Forbidding to marry, [and commanding] to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.”
“Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;”
“Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord [is] at hand.”
“¶ All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.”
“For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth [cometh] knowledge and understanding.”
“If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as [for] hid treasures;”
“Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.”
“Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, [and] liftest up thy voice for understanding;”
“So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, [and] apply thine heart to understanding;”
“He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: [he is] a buckler to them that walk uprightly.”
“¶ My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;”
“Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:”
“Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; [yea], every good path.”
“Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.”
“He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.”
“¶ When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;”
“To deliver thee from the way of the evil [man], from the man that speaketh froward things;”
“To deliver thee from the strange woman, [even] from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words;”
“For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.”
“None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.”
“That thou mayest walk in the way of good [men], and keep the paths of the righteous.”
“For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.”
“But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.”
“Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;”
“Who rejoice to do evil, [and] delight in the frowardness of the wicked;”
“Whose ways [are] crooked, and [they] froward in their paths:”