The fruit of the Spirit is temperance. (Gal. 5:22 )
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. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. (1 Cor. 9:25-27 )
Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess: but be filled with the Spirit. (Eph. 5:18 )
If any man will come after me let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. (Matt. 16:24 )
Let us not sleep, as do others: but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. But let us, who are of the day, be sober. (1 Thes. 5:6-8) Denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world: looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. (Titus 2:12 , 13 )
