Bible Dictionary: Being Sober

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Greek

3525. nepho -- to be sober, to abstain from wine
... 3525 ("be sober, unintoxicated") refers to having (clear judgment), enabling someone
to be ... one's wits (faculties) about them," which is the opposite of being . ...
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1594. eknepho -- to become sober (after drunkenness)
... wholly out of" and 3525 , "be sober") -- properly, delivered out of drunkenness
and to sobriety (seriousness), ie with the awareness of being responsibly aware ...
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4994. sophronizo -- to recall one to his senses, admonish
... fron-id'-zo) Short Definition: I admonish Definition: I make sober-minded, admonish,
control. Cognate: 4994 (from 4998 , "truly ") -- being radically-moderate ...
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4998. sophron -- of sound mind, self-controlled
... temperate Definition: of sound mind, self-controlled, temperate, sober-minded, modest ...
correctly (divinely) balanced (which is far more than being "the middle of ...
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Topical Bible Verses

2 Timothy 4:5
But watch you in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of your ministry.
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1 Peter 5:8
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour:
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1 Peter 4:7
But the end of all things is at hand: be you therefore sober, and watch to prayer.
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Ephesians 5:18
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
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Proverbs 20:1
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
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Library

Hope Perfectly
... exhortations which precede that to hope are subsidiary to it, for we ought to read,
'Wherefore, girding up the loins of your mind, and being sober, hope.' That ...
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Rom. xii. 1
... meaning by sobriety (sophrosune) here not that virtue which contrasts with lewdness,
nor the being free from intemperance, but being sober and healthful in mind ...
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"Behold what Indignation. "
... what good things ye have been seduced, and by whom ye have been deceived, and for
what punishment ye are prepared; and thus, your mind being sober, and kindled ...
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2 Timothy iii. 16, 17
... How? by being sober and watchful. This might have sufficed for the consolation of
his disciples, but he further adds the rewards. And what are these? ...
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"Be Ye Therefore Sober, and Watch unto Prayer. "
... That prayer may be in good health, a man must keep a diet and be sober, sobriety
conduces so much to its well-being, and insobriety makes prayer fail. ...
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Instability
... it a strange thing for a man to boast that he made no profession of being a gentleman,
or no profession of being honest, or no profession of being sober, or no ...
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Sober Thinking
... estimate of themselves. This sober estimate is here regarded as being important
chiefly as an aid to right service. It is immediately ...
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Of the Conversion of Evodius, and the Death of his Mother when ...
... For when she, as being a sober maiden, was as usual bidden by her parents to draw
wine from the cask, the vessel being held under the opening, before she ...
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From Fasts Absolute Tertullian Comes to Partial Ones and ...
... or ascend unto the sacrificial altar; and ye shall not die." [1074] So true is it,
that such as shall have ministered in the Church, being not sober, shall "die ...
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A Discourse Concerning the Being and Attributes of God
... X. Proposition X. That the self-existent being must be all-powerful. XI. ... Fifthly,
As this revelation, to the judgment of right and sober reason,. XV. ...
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