Bible verses about "excess" | UKJV

¹⁶ This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, (o. pneuma) and all of you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

⁴ All of you adulterers and adulteresses, know all of you not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

²³ Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake and your often infirmities.

⁷ For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, not an attacker, not given to filthy illegal gain;

¹ Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

² And be not conformed to this world: but be all of you transformed by the renewing of your mind, that all of you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

³ For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

¹⁵ And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consists not in the abundance of the things which he possesses.

¹⁸ And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; (o. pneuma)

¹⁵ Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love (o. agape) of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶ For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. ¹⁷ And the world passes away, and the lust thereof: but he that does the will of God abides for ever.