Quotes about Temperance
A fool vents all his anger, but a wise man holds it back.
- Proverbs 29:11
Do not spend your strength on women or your vigor on those who ruin kings.
- Proverbs 31:3
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to crave strong drink,
- Proverbs 31:4
Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger settles in the lap of a fool.
- Ecclesiastes 7:9
Do not be overly righteous, and do not make yourself too wise. Why should you destroy yourself?
- Ecclesiastes 7:16
They no longer sing and drink wine; strong drink is bitter to those who consume it.
- Isaiah 24:9
But suppose that servant says in his heart, ‘My master will be a long time in coming,’ and he begins to beat the menservants and maidservants, and to eat and drink and get drunk.
- Luke 12:45
Since these things are undeniable, you ought to be calm and not do anything rash.
- Acts 19:36
But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.
- 1 Corinthians 5:11
Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good to abstain from sexual relations.
- 1 Corinthians 7:1
But if they cannot control themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
- 1 Corinthians 7:9
Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and to drink, and got up to indulge in revelry.”
- 1 Corinthians 10:7