| Mat 23:25 | Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. - Mat 23:25 | God looks at the Heart. Men look at the facade. |
| Eph 5:18 | And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; - Eph 5:18 | One of the Fruit of the Spirit is Temperance (self control). Excess is to be avoided in all things but especially in those things which cloud our Minds and subject us to Satan's influence. Being Drunk is being under the influence. Being Sober is being clear headed. Alcohol and drugs are not the only things that can bring one under the influence of Satan, The MysteryOfGod, the MysteryOfChrist is accomplish as we are Filled with the HolySpirit and serve Christ in His Power |
| 1Pe 4:3 | For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: - 1Pe 4:3 | All that is past should be forgotten. |
| 1Pe 4:4 | Wherein they think it strange that you run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you: - 1Pe 4:4 | Repentance is turning away from one thing to face another thing. We can't concern ourselves with what the Heathen think of us. |