Bible Verses about “everything in moderation”
The Bible contains 43 verses about everything in moderation across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,”
“for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.”
“Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.”
“Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.”
“Don't be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,”
“For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:”
“a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;”
“a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.”
“a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;”
“a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;”
“"All things are lawful for me," but not all things are expedient. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be brought under the power of anything.”
“a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;”
“a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;”
“a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;”
“Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.”
“For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.”
“For it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.”
“forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.”
“through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;”
“Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.”
“"All things are lawful for me," but not all things are profitable. "All things are lawful for me," but not all things build up.”
“For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.”
“If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:”
“then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.”
“Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;”
“So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;”
“He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity;”
“My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you;”
“Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,”
“Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.”
“who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:”
“that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.”
“For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.”
“to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things;”
“To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;”
“for her house leads down to death, her paths to the dead.”
“None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:”
“that you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.”
“For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.”
“But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.”
“who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;”
“who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil;”
“who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths:”