Live Wisely

[13] Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. [14] But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. [15] This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. [16] For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. [17] But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. [18] And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.

Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.

See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,

Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

• Sobriety

But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;

To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

• Wisdom

Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.

• Sobriety

That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.

• Sobriety

Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

• Darkness

For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.

Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;