Bible Verses About Excess

“For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.”

“As God’s steward, an overseer must be above reproach — not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not greedy for money.”

“If you find honey, eat just what you need, lest you have too much and vomit it up.”

“The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at this glutton and drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is vindicated by her actions.”

“Let your gentleness be apparent to all. The Lord is near.”

“Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.”