Sobriety
Bible Usage:
- sobriety used twice.
- First Reference: 1 Timothy 2:9
- Last Reference: 1 Timothy 2:15
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: Yes
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: No
Strongs Concordance:
- G4997 Used 2 times
Commanded
1 Peter 1:13; 1 Peter 5:8
The gospel designed to teach
Titus 2:12
With watchfulness
1 Thessalonians 5:6
With prayer
1 Peter 4:7
Required in:
Ministers
1 Timothy 3:2-3; Titus 1:8
Wives of ministers
1 Timothy 3:11
Aged men
Titus 2:2
Young men
Titus 2:6
Young women
Titus 2:4
All saints
1 Thessalonians 5:6; 1 Thessalonians 5:8
Women should exhibit in dress
1 Timothy 2:9
We should estimate our character and talents with
Romans 12:3
We should live in
Titus 2:12
Motive for
1 Peter 4:7; 1 Peter 5:8
Temperance; Drunkenness
SOBRI'ETY, noun [Latin sobrietas, from sobrius.]
1. Habitual soberness or temperance in the use of spirituous liquors; as when we say. a man of sobriety
2. Freedom from intoxication. Public sobriety is a relative duty.
3. Habitual freedom from enthusiasm, inordinate passion or overheated imagination; calmness; coolness; as the sobriety of riper years; the sobriety of age.
4. Seriousness; gravity without sadness or melancholy. Mirth makes them not mad, nor sobriety sad.