Bible Verses about

Temperate Habits Taught


1 Timothy 3:2

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

Titus 2:2

That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.

1 Timothy 3:11

Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

Titus 1:8

But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;

Titus 2:3

The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

1 Corinthians 13:11

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

James 3:1

My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.

Proverbs 23:1-3

When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.

Titus 2:2-12

That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. read more

Titus 2:4

That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,