16 Now I am saying, Walk in spirit, and you should under no circumstances be consummating the lust of the flesh."
Bible verses about "excess" | CLV
Galatians 5:16
James 4:4
4 Adulterers and adulteresses! Are you not aware that the friendship of this world is enmity with God? Whosoever, then should intend to be a friend of the world is constituted an enemy of God."
1 Timothy 5:23
23 No longer drink water only, but be using a sip of wine for your stomach and your frequent infirmities."
Titus 1:7
7 for the supervisor must be unimpeachable as an administrator of God, not given to self-gratification, not irritable, no toper, not quarrelsome, not avaricious;"
Proverbs 20:1
1 Wine is a mocker; an intoxicant is a discomfiter; And anyone led into error by it is not wise.
Romans 12:2
2 and not to be configured to this eon, but to be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for you to be testing what is the will of God, good and well pleasing and perfect."
1 Peter 4:3
3 For sufficient is the time which has passed by to have effected the intention of the nations, having gone on in wantonness, lusts, debauches, revelries, drinking bouts, and illicit idolatries,
Luke 12:15
15 Now He said to them, "See and guard against all greed, for one's life is not in the superfluity of his possessions."
Ephesians 5:18
18 And be not drunk with wine, in which is profligacy, but be filled full with spirit,
1 John 2:15-17
15 Be not loving the world, neither that which is in the world. If ever anyone is loving the world, the love of the Father is not in him,
16 for everything that is in the world, the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of living, is not of the Father, but is of the world."
17 And the world is passing by, and its desire, yet he who is doing the will of God is remaining for the eon."