Bible verses about "temperance" | JuliaSmith

¹ If thou shalt sit to eat with a ruler, understanding, thou shalt understand what is before thee. ² And put a knife to thy swallow if thou the possessor of a soul. ³ Thou shalt not long for his dainties: and it is the bread of lies.

²⁵ And every one contending for the prize, has self command in all things. These surely therefore that they might receive a corruptible crown; and we an incorruptible.

¹⁶ Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and the spirit of God dwells in you? ¹⁷ If any one destroy the temple of God, him will God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which ye are.

³ And not only, but also we boast in affliction: knowing that affliction works perseverance; ⁴ And perseverance, proof; and proof, hope. ⁵ And hope shames not; for the love of God has been poured in our hearts by the Holy Spirit given us. ⁶ For yet Christ, we being weak, Recording to the time died for the impious.

⁹ Or know ye not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God Be ye not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, ¹⁰ Nor thieves; nor covetous, nor intoxicated, nor railers, nor rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ And these were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were consecrated, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

¹ Dearly beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if they are of God: for many false prophets have come out into the world. ² In this ye know the spirit of God: Every spirit which acknowledges Jesus Christ having come in the flesh is of God: ³ And every spirit which acknowledges not Jesus Christ having come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that of antichrist which ye have heard comes; and now is already in the world. ⁴ Ye are of God, little children, and have conquered them: for greater is he in you, than he in the world. ⁵ They are of the world: for this they speak of the world, and the world hears them. ⁶ We are of God: he knowing God hears us; he is not of God who hears us not. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. ⁷ Dearly beloved, we should love one another: for love is of God; and every one loving has been born of God, and knows God. ⁸ He not loving knows not God; for God is love. ⁹ In this was the love of God manifested in us, that God has sent his only born Son into the world, that we might live by him. ¹⁰ In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins. ¹¹ Dearly beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. ¹² None has ever seen God. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love is completed in us. ¹³ In this we know that we remain in him, and he in us, for he has given us of his Spirit. ¹⁴ And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his. Son a Saviour of the world. ¹⁵ Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God. ¹⁶ And we have known and have believed the love which God has in us. God is love; and he remaining in love remains in God, and God in him. ¹⁷ In this has love been completed with us, that we might have freedom of speech in the day of judgment: for as he is, so are we in this world. ¹⁸ Fear is not in love; but perfected love casts out fear: for fear has restraint. And he fearing has not been perfected in love. ¹⁹ We should love him, for he first loved us. ²⁰ If any say, I love God, and hate his brother, he is a liar: for he not loving his brother whom he has seen, God whom he has not seen, how can he love? ²¹ And this command have we from him, That he loving God love his brother also.

¹⁶ And I say, Walk in Spirit, and complete not the desire of the flesh.

¹³ I am strong for all things in Christ strengthening me.

¹ I Beseech you therefore, brethren, by the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, your reasonable service. ² And be ye not conformed to this life, but be transformed by the renovation of your mind, for you to prove what the good, and the pleasing, and the perfected will of God.

¹⁴ But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not consideration for the flesh, for the passions.

⁸ Be abstemious, watch; for your adversary the accuser, as a roaring lion, walks around, seeking whom he might swallow down:

¹⁶ Thou didst find honey; eat thy sufficiency, lest thou shalt be satiated, and thou vomit it forth.

²² And the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith, ²³ Meekness, temperance: against such is no law. ²⁴ And they of Christ have crucified the flesh with the passions and desires. ²⁵ If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

⁶ And in knowledge self-control; and in self-control patience; and in patience devotion;

²⁷ But I give my body a blow under the eyes, and reduce to bondage: lest having proclaimed to others, I myself be rejected.

¹² Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and eager worldly desires, we should live discreetly, and justly, and religiously, in the time now;

²³ Meekness, temperance: against such is no law.