Bible Verses about “temperance”
The Bible contains 40 verses about temperance across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.”
“I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.”
“Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.”
“Beloved, don't believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.”
“Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.”
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,”
“gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.”
“But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.”
“There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.”
“He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.”
“But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh.”
“If a man says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn't love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?”
“Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.”
“but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.”
“You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.”
“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.”
“Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.”
“instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world;”
“We love him, because he first loved us.”
“We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.”
“If we live by the Spirit, let's also walk by the Spirit.”
“and every spirit who doesn't confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God, and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.”
“By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,”
“but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled;”
“This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.”
“and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control patience; and in patience godliness;”
“Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.”
“In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.”
“No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.”
“We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn't listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.”
“put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.”
“They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.”
“By this God's love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.”
“We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.”
“In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.”
“Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.”
“By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.”
“Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it.”
“When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you;”
“Don't be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.”