King James Bible Dictionary

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.