101 Bible Verses about Drunkards

I want to talk to you about something that might be hitting close to home: the struggle with alcohol. It can lead us down some pretty rough paths, hurting ourselves and those around us. It's important to really think about the ripple effect our choices have, you know? We have to own our actions.

If you're finding yourself in situations where alcohol is taking control, please know there's support out there. Don't hesitate to reach out and get the help you need to stay safe and healthy.

From my perspective, alcoholism, like any addiction, is a form of idolatry. Anything we turn to instead of God to fill that deep need in our hearts becomes an idol, and ultimately, a spiritual chain.

I want to share something that can truly set you free from this struggle. It's the power of Christ's blood. I believe it's strong enough to cleanse you, detoxify you, and make you a new person. There's real freedom waiting for you.

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

Don’t be amongst ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat;

Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.

for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

Don’t look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.

They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

It is not for kings, Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for princes to say, ‘Where is strong drink?’

Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

Eli said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Get rid of your wine!”

Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,

envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practise such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink, who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!

The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don’t respect the work of the LORD, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.

Don’t be amongst ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat;

for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?

Don’t be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.

Those who stay long at the wine; those who go to seek out mixed wine.

Don’t look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.

In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.

Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing things.

Yes, you will be as he who lies down in the middle of the sea, or as he who lies on top of the rigging:

“They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don’t feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I will look for more.”

For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money,

It is not for kings, Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for princes to say, ‘Where is strong drink?’

lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.

For in the LORD’s hand there is a cup, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours it out. Indeed the wicked of the earth drink and drink it to its very dregs.

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish, and wine to the bitter in soul.

Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practise such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

Happy are you, land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.

I will meditate on your precepts, and consider your ways.

Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards,

But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My lord delays his coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink and to be drunken,

then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn’t expecting him and in an hour that he doesn’t know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.

You will vomit up the morsel which you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.

Don’t put your trust in princes, in a son of man in whom there is no help.

I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,

Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!

For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little.

But he will speak to this nation with stammering lips and in another language,

to whom he said, “This is the resting place. Give rest to the weary,” and “This is the refreshing;” yet they would not hear.

Therefore the LORD’s word will be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, fall backward, be broken, be snared, and be taken.

Therefore hear the LORD’s word, you scoffers, that rule this people in Jerusalem:

“Because you have said, ‘We have made a covenant with death, and we are in agreement with Sheol. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.’”

Therefore the Lord GOD says, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.

I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding place.

Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand. When the overflowing scourge passes through, then you will be trampled down by it.

As often as it passes through, it will seize you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be nothing but terror to understand the message.”

Behold, the Lord has one who is mighty and strong. Like a storm of hail, a destroying storm, and like a storm of mighty waters overflowing, he will cast them down to the earth with his hand.

For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to wrap oneself in.

For the LORD will rise up as on Mount Perazim. He will be angry as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his unusual work, and bring to pass his act, his extraordinary act.

Now therefore don’t be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, GOD of Armies, on the whole earth.

Give ear, and hear my voice! Listen, and hear my speech!

Does he who ploughs to sow plough continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods?

When he has levelled its surface, doesn’t he plant the dill, and scatter the cumin seed, and put in the wheat in rows, the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in its place?

For his God instructs him in right judgement and teaches him.

For the dill isn’t threshed with a sharp instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned over the cumin; but the dill is beaten out with a stick, and the cumin with a rod.

Bread flour must be ground; so he will not always be threshing it. Although he drives the wheel of his threshing cart over it, his horses don’t grind it.

This also comes out from the LORD of Armies, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.

The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden under foot.

Whether therefore you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

Whoever keeps the law is a wise son; but he who is a companion of gluttons shames his father.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities.

Folly is joy to one who is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding keeps his way straight.

He who loves pleasure will be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil won’t be rich.

Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, so that you may win.

Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

A wise man has great power. A knowledgeable man increases strength,

Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labour, is the gift of God.

Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

If you stop listening to instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.

and don’t give place to the devil.

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practise deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.

But I tell you that I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on, until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father’s Kingdom.”

For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

Don’t you know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

A simple man believes everything, but the prudent man carefully considers his ways.

Your vows are on me, God. I will give thank offerings to you.

For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you;

Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,

for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.

Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.

Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol.

My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine.

Yes, my heart will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.

Don’t let your heart envy sinners, but rather fear the LORD all day long.

Indeed surely there is a future hope, and your hope will not be cut off.

Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path!

put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to appetite.

Don’t be amongst ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat;

for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.

Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.

Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice!

My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well.

Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful amongst men.

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?

Don’t be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

“Come,” they say, “I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be as today, great beyond measure.”

But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.

The wicked borrow, and don’t pay back, but the righteous give generously.

Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, or with the covetous and extortionists, or with idolaters, for then you would have to leave the world.

Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father; but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Again he says, “Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people.”

Again, “Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles! Let all the peoples praise him.”

Again, Isaiah says, “There will be the root of Jesse, he who arises to rule over the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles will hope.”

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope in the power of the Holy Spirit.

I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

But I write the more boldly to you in part as reminding you, because of the grace that was given to me by God,

that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.

For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God’s Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;

Let each one of us please his neighbour for that which is good, to be building him up.

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it.

Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up.

They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgement.

A man of violence entices his neighbour, and leads him in a way that is not good.

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.

He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. It came into his inward parts like water, like oil into his bones.

It is a fool’s pleasure to do wickedness, but wisdom is a man of understanding’s pleasure.

For each man will bear his own burden.

My soul is weary with sorrow; strengthen me according to your word.

They will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it.

Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path!

put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to appetite.

Don’t be amongst ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat;

for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonour who magnify themselves against me.

Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.

I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.”’

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