Bible Verses About Moderation
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for moderation, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,602 votes, led by 1 Corinthians 6:12. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Moderation
1 Corinthians 6:12151 votes
All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
Proverbs 25:27112 votes
It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
1 Corinthians 9:25105 votes
And 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.
Philippians 4:590 votes
Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
Galatians 5:1380 votes
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
Ephesians 5:1879 votes
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
Proverbs 25:1676 votes
Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
Titus 2:774 votes
In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,
Proverbs 20:169 votes
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
1 Peter 5:857 votes
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
1 Timothy 5:2355 votes
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.
Proverbs 23:20-2146 votes
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
Titus 2:340 votes
The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
Colossians 2:20-2335 votes
Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
Romans 14:2130 votes
It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
1 Timothy 3:830 votes
Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
Psalms 104:1529 votes
And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man’s heart.
Ephesians 5:18-2028 votes
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
1 Timothy 6:1028 votes
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Matthew 7:1225 votes
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
Galatians 5:2125 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.
1 Corinthians 5:1121 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.
Psalms 150:1-620 votes
Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.
Ephesians 5:118 votes
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
Luke 7:3417 votes
The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
What does the Bible say about moderation?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 6:12 on the subject of moderation. Across 1,602 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 25:27, 1 Corinthians 9:25, Philippians 4:5. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.