Topic
Sobriety
16 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
These works date from 1896–1897 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Romans 12:3Nave · Torrey We should estimate our character and talents with
For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:6Nave · Torrey With watchfulness
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:8Nave · Torrey Required in — All saints
But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
- 1 Timothy 2:9Nave · Torrey Women should exhibit in dress
In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
- 1 Timothy 3:2Nave · Torrey Required in — God' s servants
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
- 1 Timothy 3:3Nave · Torrey Required in — God' s servants
Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
- 1 Timothy 3:11Nave · Torrey Required in — Wives of servants of God
Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
- Titus 1:8Nave · Torrey Required in — God' s servants
But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
- Titus 2:2Nave · Torrey Required in — Aged men
That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
- Titus 2:4Nave · Torrey Required in — Young women
That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
- Titus 2:6Nave · Torrey Required in — Young men
Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.
- Titus 2:12Nave · Torrey The gospel designed to teach
Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
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- 1 Peter 1:13 Nave · Torrey Commanded
- 1 Peter 4:7 Nave · Torrey With prayer
- 1 Peter 5:8 Nave · Torrey Commanded
- Titus 2:11 Torrey The gospel designed to teach
In the topical indexes
Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 19 references, grouped by sub-topic
- → (Clear thinking)
- → Commanded 1Pe 1:13; 5:8
- → The gospel designed to teach Tit 2:12
- → With watchfulness 1Th 5:6
- → With prayer 1Pe 4:7
- → Required in
- → Women should exhibit in dress 1Ti 2:9
- → We should estimate our character and talents with Ro 12:3
- → We should live in Tit 2:12
- → Motive for 1Pe 4:7; 5:8
- → See TEMPERANCE
- → See DRUNKENNESS
Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897) · 20 references, grouped by sub-topic
Texts: Nave's Topical Bible (1896); Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.