Bible Verses About Being Sober
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for being sober, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 186,685 votes, led by 1 Peter 5:8. Each passage links into the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Being Sober
1 Peter 5:85,912 votes
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
1 Peter 4:74,414 votes
But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
1 Thessalonians 5:63,593 votes
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
1 Peter 1:133,428 votes
Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
Ephesians 5:183,174 votes
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
Titus 2:23,144 votes
That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
1 Timothy 3:23,140 votes
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
Romans 12:32,917 votes
For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
Proverbs 20:12,737 votes
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
2 Timothy 4:52,573 votes
But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
Isaiah 5:112,529 votes
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
1 Corinthians 5:112,442 votes
But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
Galatians 5:212,307 votes
Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
James 4:72,262 votes
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Proverbs 23:29-352,203 votes
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
Titus 2:62,129 votes
Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.
Titus 2:122,035 votes
Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
Matthew 24:421,993 votes
Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
1 Corinthians 8:91,963 votes
But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.
Ephesians 6:111,919 votes
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Revelation 1:11,840 votes
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
1 Thessalonians 5:81,770 votes
But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
Revelation 12:91,742 votes
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Romans 12:21,728 votes
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Romans 13:131,692 votes
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.