Sobriety

How Nave’s arranged it

• (Clear thinking)
• Commanded1 Peter 1:131 Peter 5:8
• The gospel designed to teachTitus 2:12
• With watchfulness1 Thessalonians 5:6
• With prayer1 Peter 4:7
• Required in
• God' s servants1 Timothy 3:21 Timothy 3:3Titus 1:8
• Wives of servants of God1 Timothy 3:11
• Aged menTitus 2:2
• Young menTitus 2:6
• Young womenTitus 2:4
• All saints1 Thessalonians 5:61 Thessalonians 5:8

The passages, in Bible order (15)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 15 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Romans 12:3

   For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but think of yourself with sober judgment, according to the measure of faith God has given you.

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   “Those, therefore, who desert the preaching of the Church, call in question the knowledge of the holy presbyters, not taking into consideration of how much greater consequence is a religious man, even in a private station, than a blasphemous and impudent sophist.

   “For I say, through the grace given unto me,.... The Ethiopic version reads, the grace of God: and so two of Stephens's copies.

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2. 1 Thessalonians 5:6

   So then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain awake and sober.

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   “Wherefore also the Lord enjoins "to watch," so that our soul may never be perturbed with passion, even in dreams; but also to keep the life of the night pure and stainless, as if spent in the day. For assimilation to God, as far as we can, is preserving the mind in its relation to the same things... Wherefore the mysteries are for the most part celebrated by night, indicating the withdrawal of the soul from the body, which takes place by night. "Let us not then sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

   “Therefore let us not sleep as do others....

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3. 1 Thessalonians 5:8

   But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and the helmet of our hope of salvation.

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   “But if we must also examine the statement, "And it was night," so that it has not been interjected to no purpose by the Evangelist, we must say that the perceptible night at that time was symbolic, an image of the night that was in Judas's soul when Satan, the darkness that lies over the abyss, entered him.

   “Sleeping here the apostle calls those who remain in evil, as being immovable toward virtue and immersed in dreamlike delusions. Such, indeed, are the affairs of the present life, in no way differing from the visions of sleep. Furthermore, by drunkenness he means not only …

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4. 1 Timothy 2:9

   Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes,

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   “Let us then hold fast modesty and that moderation which adds to the beauty of the whole of life. For it is no light thing in every matter to preserve due measure and to bring about order, wherein that is plainly conspicuous which we call "decorum," or what is seemly. This is so closely connected with what is virtuous that one cannot separate the two.… This seemliness which we offer to God we may believe to be far better than other things.

   “In like manner also,....

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5. 1 Timothy 3:2

   An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

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   “And the Apostle has established a law, saying: "If any man be without reproach the husband of one wife." So then he who is without blame the husband of one wife comes within the rule for undertaking the priestly office; he, however, who has married again has no guilt of pollution, but is disqualified for the priestly prerogative.

   “A bishop then must be blameless,.... Or "an elder", as the Syriac version renders it; not that it can be expected that such an one should be entirely free from sin, or be blameless in the sight of God; but that he should be one, who is so before men, and has not been guilty of any notorious and flagitious crime; and particularly, is not chargeable with the vices hereafter mentioned or hinted at. So the priests under the law were to be without blemish, even in their bodies, Lev 21:17 to which the apostle may here allude.

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6. 1 Timothy 3:3

   not dependent on wine, not violent but gentle, peaceable, and free of the love of money.

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   “Let your breath never smell of wine, lest the philosopher's words be said to you, "Instead of offering me a kiss, you are giving me a taste of wine." Priests given to wine are both condemned by the apostle and forbidden by the old law.… Whatever intoxicates and disturbs the balance of the mind, avoid as you would wine. I do not say that we are to condemn what is a creature of God.

   “Not given to wine,....

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7. 1 Timothy 3:11

   In the same way, the women must be dignified, not slanderers, but temperate and faithful in all things.

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   “Women likewise must be honorable, not slanderers, but sober-minded, faithful in all things. Women, not just any women, but deaconesses. For what did Paul wish to mention among the clergy, women of any kind? not slanderous. What was said above: not to be double-tongued. but …

   “Even so must their wives be grave,....

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8. Titus 1:8

   Instead, he must be hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.

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   "But [he should be] hospitable, a lover of good, chaste, just, holy, continent or abstinent, one who holds to the correct doctrine, faithful in speech, so that [he] is able to comfort [others] in sound doctrine and refute those who contradict it." Above all, hospitality is required of a future bishop. For if everyone wishes to hear it from the Gospel: "I was a stranger and you took me in" (Matt. 25:35): how much more should a bishop, whose house should be a common inn for everyone!

   “But a lover of hospitality,....

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9. Titus 2:2

   Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, and sound in faith, love, and perseverance.

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   “Older men should be sober, honorable, chaste, sound in faith, love, and patience.

   “That the aged men be sober,....

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10. Titus 2:4

    In this way they can train the young women to love their husbands and children,

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    “Similarly, with holy habits, not inciting, not serving much wine; teaching well, that they may instruct young women towards chastity, that they may love their husbands, that they may love their children: modest, chaste, having diligence of the house, kind, submissive to their husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed. Although the apostle Peter has commanded that husbands should give honor to their wives as to a weaker vessel, nevertheless it is not to be judged that a wife, who has a weak vessel of the body, is at once weaker also in soul.

    “so that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be self-controlled, pure, homemakers, kind, submissive to their own husbands, so that the word of God may not be reviled. so that they may train the young women. …

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11. Titus 2:6

    In the same way, urge the younger men to be self-controlled.

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    “Similarly, exhort the youth to be pure in all things, setting yourself as an example of good works in teaching, integrity and chastity, in sound and irreproachable speech, so that the outsider may respect us, having nothing bad to say about us.

    “Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded. Temperate, chaste, modest, moderate, wise, and prudent in all things: this is said to Titus, as being his province to instruct and exhort the young men; as it were proper and convenient for aged women to teach the young women how they should behave and conduct themselves.

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12. Titus 2:12

    It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

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    “This grace has shone upon all men in order to instruct us to renounce impiety and worldly desires and to live chastely, justly, and piously in this world. However, to deny impiety and worldly desires, as we have explained above, they confess to knowing God, but deny it by their deeds. I believe that this can be understood through opposing arguments. Therefore, worldly desires are those that are suggested by the prince of this world, and since they belong to this world, they pass through it like a cloud.

    “Teaching us,....

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13. 1 Peter 1:13

    Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

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    "Wherefore, girding up your loins," "serve the Lord in fear" and truth, as those who have forsaken the vain, empty talk and error of the multitude, and "believed in Him who raised up our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead, and gave Him glory," and a throne at His right hand. To Him all things in heaven and on earth are subject. Him every spirit serves. He comes as the Judge of the living and the dead. His blood will God require of those who do not believe in Him.

    “Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind,....

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14. 1 Peter 4:7

    The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear-minded and sober, so that you can pray.

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    "For whosoever does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh, is antichrist;" and whosoever does not confess the testimony of the cross, is of the devil; and whosoever perverts the oracles of the Lord to his own lusts, and says that there is neither a resurrection nor a judgment, he is the first-born of Satan.

    “But the end of all things is at hand,.... With respect to particular persons, the end of life, and which is the end of all things in this world to a man, is near at hand; which is but as an hand's breadth, passes away like a tale that is told, and is but as a vapour which appears for a while, and then vanishes away.

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15. 1 Peter 5:8

    Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

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    “Be sober, be vigilant,.... The apostle had exhorted to each of these before; see 1Pe 1:13 but thought fit to repeat them; sobriety and watchfulness being exceeding necessary and useful in the Christian life; and the one cannot well be without the other: unless a man is sober in body and mind, he will not be watchful, either over himself or others, or against the snares of sin, Satan, and the world; and if he is not on his watch and guard, he is liable to every sin and temptation.

    “That the devil wanders over all the earth under heaven and ranges about like a mad dog, seeking whom he may devour, we learn from the story of Job.

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