Bible Verses about “being sober”

“Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.”

“Don't be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,”

“The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;”

“For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.”

“Therefore, prepare your minds for action, be sober and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ--”

“that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in patience:”

“But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.”

“so then let's not sleep, as the rest do, but let's watch and be sober.”