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105 Bible Verses about Drunkenness
The Bible offers a lot of guidance about alcohol. Leviticus 10:91 says, "You and your sons are not to drink wine or other fermented drink whenever you go into the tent of meeting, or you will die. This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come." This passage doesn't mean we can't ever have a drink. Alcohol itself isn't sinful.
However, the Bible is very clear that we should steer clear of drunkenness and addiction. Ephesians 5:182 tells us, "Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit." And 1 Corinthians 6:123 reminds us, "‘I have the right to do anything,’ you say—but not everything is beneficial. ‘I have the right to do anything’—but I will not be mastered by anything."
So, think about it. While enjoying a drink might not be wrong in itself, it's important to be mindful and make sure it's not controlling you. It's about living a life that honors God and allows the Holy Spirit to guide you.
And do not choose to be inebriated by wine, for this is self-indulgence. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit,
Let us walk honestly, as in the daylight, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in promiscuity and sexual immorality, not in contention and envy.
nor the effeminate, nor males who sleep with males, nor thieves, nor the avaricious, nor the inebriated, nor slanderers, nor the rapacious shall possess the kingdom of God.
Therefore, take care that you do not drink wine or strong drink. Neither shall you eat anything unclean.
Woe to you who rise up in the morning to pursue drunkenness, and to drink even until evening, so as to be inflamed with wine.
It is a luxurious thing, wine, and inebriation is tumultuous. Anyone who is delighted by this will not be wise.
It is good to refrain from eating meat and from drinking wine, and from anything by which your brother is offended, or led astray, or weakened.
envy, murder, inebriation, carousing, and similar things. About these things, I continue to preach to you, as I have preached to you: that those who act in this way shall not obtain the kingdom of God.
Woe to anyone who gives a drink to a friend, releasing a drug and inebriating, so as to look upon their nakedness.
For those who waste time drinking, and who surrender themselves to symbols, will be consumed. And those who sleep will be clothed in rags.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest; they are: fornication, lust, homosexuality, self-indulgence,Behold, I, Paul, say to you, that if you have been circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you.the serving of idols, drug use, hostility, contentiousness, jealousy, wrath, quarrels, dissensions, divisions,envy, murder, inebriation, carousing, and similar things. About these things, I continue to preach to you, as I have preached to you: that those who act in this way shall not obtain the kingdom of God.
Woe to you who are powerful at drinking wine, who are strong men in contriving inebriation!
Similarly, deacons must be chaste, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not pursuing tainted profit,
Who has woe? Whose father has woe? Who has quarrels? Who falls into pits? Who has wounds without cause? Who has watery eyes?Do not desire his foods, in which is the bread of deceit.Is it not those who linger over wine, and who strive to be drinking from their cups?Do not gaze into the wine when it turns gold, when its color shines in the glass. It enters pleasantly,but in the end, it will bite like a snake, and it will spread poison like a king of snakes.Your eyes will see women who are outsiders, and your heart will utter perversities.And you will be like someone sleeping in the middle of the sea, and like a pilot, fast asleep, who has lost his hold on the helm.And you will say: "They have beaten me, but I did not feel pain. They have dragged me, and I did not realize it. When will I awaken and find more wine?"
Woe to you who rise up in the morning to pursue drunkenness, and to drink even until evening, so as to be inflamed with wine.Harp and lyre and timbrel and pipe, as well as wine, are at your feasts. But you do not respect the work of the Lord, nor do you consider the works of his hands.
Do not be willing to be in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in the carousings of those who gather to feed on flesh.For those who waste time drinking, and who surrender themselves to symbols, will be consumed. And those who sleep will be clothed in rags.
Be sober and vigilant. For your adversary, the devil, is like a roaring lion, traveling around and seeking those whom he might devour.
he allowed no man to harm them, and he reproved kings on their behalf.Do not be willing to touch my Christ, and do not be willing to malign my prophets.
Not to kings, O Lamuel, not to kings give wine. For there are no secrets where drunkenness reigns.And perhaps they may drink and forget judgments, and alter the case of the sons of the poor.
But be attentive to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts may be weighed down by self-indulgence and inebriation and the cares of this life. And then that day may overwhelm you suddenly.
But now I have written to you: do not associate with anyone who is called a brother and yet is a fornicator, or greedy, or a servant of idolatry, or a slanderer, or inebriated, or a robber. With such a one as this, do not even take food.
Therefore, may my mouth not speak the works of men. I have kept to difficult ways because of the words of your lips.
Yet truly, these also have been ignorant due to wine, and they have gone astray due to inebriation. The priest and the prophet have been ignorant because of inebriation. They have been absorbed by wine. They have staggered in drunkenness. They have not known the One who sees. They have been ignorant of judgment.
They will grope as in the darkness, not the light, and he will make them stagger like drunkards.
Blessed is the land whose king is noble, and whose princes eat at the proper time, for refreshment and not for self-indulgence.
and so, he begins to strike his fellow servants, and he eats and drinks with the inebriated:
When you sit down to eat with a leader, pay close attention to what has been set before your face,Do not touch the boundaries of little ones, and do not enter into the field of the fatherless.For their close relative is strong, and he will judge their case against you.Let your heart enter into doctrine, and let your ears enter into words of knowledge.Do not be willing to take away discipline from a child. For if you strike him with the rod, he will not die.You will strike him with the rod, and so shall you deliver his soul from Hell.My son, if your soul will become wise, my heart will be glad with you.And my temperament will exult, when your lips will have spoken what is upright.Let not your heart compete with sinners. But be in the fear of the Lord all day long.For you will have hope in the end, and your expectation will not be taken away.Listen, my son, and be wise, and direct your soul along the way.and put a knife to your throat, if, in such a way, you could hold your soul in your own power.Do not be willing to be in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in the carousings of those who gather to feed on flesh.For those who waste time drinking, and who surrender themselves to symbols, will be consumed. And those who sleep will be clothed in rags.Listen to your father, who conceived you. And do not despise your mother, when she is old.Purchase truth, and do not sell wisdom, or doctrine, or understanding.The father of the just exults in gladness; he who has conceived the wise will rejoice in him.Let your father and your mother be joyful, and may she who conceived you exult.My son, offer me your heart, and let your eyes keep to my ways.For a loose woman is a deep pit, and a foreign woman is a constricted well.She lies in wait along the way like a robber. And the incautious one whom she sees, she will put to death.Who has woe? Whose father has woe? Who has quarrels? Who falls into pits? Who has wounds without cause? Who has watery eyes?Do not desire his foods, in which is the bread of deceit.
But if that servant will have said in his heart, 'My Lord has made a delay in his return,' and if he has begun to strike the men and women servants, and to eat and drink, and to be inebriated,
And do not choose to be inebriated by wine, for this is self-indulgence. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit,speaking among yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual canticles, singing and reciting psalms to the Lord in your hearts,And walk in love, just as Christ also loved us and delivered himself for us, as an oblation and a sacrifice to God, with a fragrance of sweetness.giving thanks always for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God the Father.
Give strong drink to the grieving, and wine to those who are bitter in soul.Let them drink, and forget their needs, and remember their sorrow no more.
The man who loves wisdom rejoices his father. But whoever nurtures promiscuous women will lose his substance.
Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever else you may do, do everything for the glory of God.
Old women, similarly, should be in holy attire, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teaching well,
For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but rather justice and peace and joy, in the Holy Spirit.
It is a luxurious thing, wine, and inebriation is tumultuous. Anyone who is delighted by this will not be wise.Diverse weights, diverse measures: both are abominable with God.A child may be understood by his interests: whether his works may be clean and upright.The hearing ear and the seeing eye: the Lord has made them both.Do not love sleep, lest deprivation oppress you. Open your eyes and be satisfied with bread."It is bad, it is bad," says every buyer; and when he has withdrawn, then he will boast.There is gold, and there are a multitude of jewels. But lips of knowledge are a precious vessel.Take away the vestments of him who stands up to vouch for a stranger, and take a pledge from him instead of from outsiders.The bread of lies is sweet to a man. But afterwards, his mouth will be filled with pebbles.Plans are strengthened by counsels. And wars are to be handled by governments.Do not become involved with him who reveals mysteries, and who walks deceitfully, and who enlarges his lips.Just like the roaring of a lion, so also is the dread of a king. Whoever provokes him sins in his own soul.
But I say to you, I will not drink again from this fruit of the vine, until that day when I will drink it new with you in the kingdom of my Father."
I decided in my heart to withdraw my flesh from wine, so that I might bring my mind to wisdom, and turn away from foolishness, until I see what is useful for the sons of men, and what they ought to do under the sun, during the number of the days of their life.
For the time that has passed is sufficient to have fulfilled the will of the Gentiles, those who have walked in luxuries, lusts, intoxication, feasting, drinking, and the illicit worship of idols.
Do not eat with an envious man, and do not desire his foods.For, like a seer and an interpreter of dreams, he presumes what he does not know. "Eat and drink," he will say to you; and his mind is not with you.The foods that you had eaten, you will vomit up. And you will lose the beauty in your words.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest; they are: fornication, lust, homosexuality, self-indulgence,
A Psalm of David, in commemoration of the Sabbath.O Lord, all my desire is before you, and my groaning before you has not been hidden.My heart has been disturbed. My strength has abandoned me, and the light of my eyes has abandoned me, and it is not with me.My friends and my neighbors have drawn near and stood against me. And those who were next to me stood far apart. And those who sought my soul used violence.And those who sought evil accusations against me were speaking emptiness. And they practiced deceitfulness all day long.But, like someone deaf, I did not hear. And I was like someone mute, not opening his mouth.And I became like a man who does not hear, and who has no reproofs in his mouth.For in you, Lord, I have hoped. You will listen to me, O Lord my God.For I said, "Lest at any time, my enemies might rejoice over me," and, "While my feet are being shaken, they have spoken great things against me."For I have been prepared for scourges, and my sorrow is ever before me.For I will announce my iniquity, and I will think about my sin.O Lord, do not rebuke me in your fury, nor chastise me in your wrath.
And do not choose to be conformed to this age, but instead choose to be reformed in the newness of your mind, so that you may demonstrate what is the will of God: what is good, and what is well-pleasing, and what is perfect.
Do not continue to drink only water, but make use of a little wine, for the sake of your stomach and your frequent infirmities.
Let us walk honestly, as in the daylight, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in promiscuity and sexual immorality, not in contention and envy.Instead, be clothed with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in its desires.
Judgments are prepared for those who ridicule. And striking hammers are prepared for the bodies of the foolish.
And you will say: "They have beaten me, but I did not feel pain. They have dragged me, and I did not realize it. When will I awaken and find more wine?"
For this is a gift from God: when each man eats and drinks, and sees the good results of his labor.
To David himself. Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, you are exceedingly great. You have clothed yourself with confession and beauty;You spring forth fountains in steep valleys. The waters will cross through the midst of the mountains.All the wild beasts of the field will drink. The wild donkeys will anticipate in their thirst.Above them, the flying things of the air will dwell. From the midst of the rocks, they will utter voices.You irrigate the mountains from your heights. The earth will be satiated from the fruit of your works,producing grass for cattle and herbs for the service of men. So may you draw bread from the earth,and wine, in order to cheer the heart of man. Then he may gladden his face with oil, and bread will confirm the heart of man.The trees of the field will be saturated, along with the cedars of Lebanon, which he planted.There, the sparrows will make their nests. The leader of them is the house of the heron.The heights of the hills are for the deer; the rock is a refuge for the hedgehog.He has made the moon for seasons; the sun knows its setting.you are dressed with light like a garment, while you stretch out heaven like a tent.
Or do you not know that your bodies are the Temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?Or do you not know that the saints from this age shall judge it? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you unworthy, then, to judge even the smallest matters?For you have been bought at a great price. Glorify and carry God in your body.
My son, do not forget my law, but let your heart guard my precepts.and then your storehouses will be filled with abundance, and your presses shall overflow with wine.My son, do not discard the discipline of the Lord, and do not fall away when you are corrected by him.For whomever the Lord loves, he corrects, and just as a father does with a son, he wins him over.Blessed is the man who finds wisdom and who advances to prudence.Her acquisition is better than trading in silver, and her fruit is better than the first and purest gold.She is more precious than all riches, and all that can be desired cannot prevail in comparison to her.Length of days is at her right hand, and at her left hand is wealth and glory.Her ways are beautiful ways, and all her paths are peaceful.She is a tree of life to those who overtake her, and he who shall take hold of her is blessed.The Lord founded the earth on wisdom. He secured the heavens with prudence.For they shall set before you length of days, and years of life, and peace.
Their infirmities have been multiplied; after this, they acted more quickly. I will not gather for their convocations of blood, nor will I remember their names with my lips.
Furthermore, since we also have so great a cloud of witnesses over us, let us set aside every burden and sin which may surround us, and advance, through patience, to the struggle offered to us.And indeed, for a few days and according to their own wishes, they instructed us. But he does so to our benefit, so that we may receive his sanctification.Now every discipline, in the present time, does not seem a gladness, of course, but a grief. But afterwards, it will repay a most peaceful fruit of justice to those who become trained in it.Because of this, lift up your lazy hands and your lax knees,and straighten the path of your feet, so that no one, being lame, may wander astray, but instead may be healed.Pursue peace with everyone. Pursue sanctity, without which no one shall see God.Be contemplative, lest anyone lack the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness spring up and impede you, and by it, many might be defiled,lest any fornicator or worldly person be like Esau, who, for the sake of one meal, sold his birthright.For you know that afterwards, when he desired to inherit the benediction, he was rejected. For he found no place for repentance, even though he had sought it with tears.But you have not drawn near to a tangible mountain, or a burning fire, or a whirlwind, or a mist, or a storm,or the sound of a trumpet, or a voice of words. Those who had experienced these things excused themselves, lest the Word be spoken to them.Let us gaze upon Jesus, as the Author and the completion of our faith, who, having joy laid out before him, endured the cross, disregarding the shame, and who now sits at the right hand of the throne of God.
Do you not know that you are the Temple of God, and that the Spirit of God lives within you?But if anyone violates the Temple of God, God will destroy him. For the Temple of God is holy, and you are that Temple.
A Canticle Psalm. On the day of the Sabbath.For behold your enemies, O Lord, for behold your enemies will perish, and all those who work iniquity will be dispersed.And my horn will be exalted like that of the single-horned beast, and my old age will be exalted in fruitful mercy.And my eye has looked down upon my enemies, and my ear will hear of the malignant rising up against me.The just one will flourish like the palm tree. He will be multiplied like the cedar of Lebanon.Those planted in the house of the Lord will flourish in the courts of the house of our God.They will still be multiplied in a fruitful old age, and they will endure well,so that they may announce that the Lord our God is righteous and that there is no iniquity in him.It is good to confess to the Lord and to sing psalms to your name, O Most High:
Whoever is patient is governed by much prudence. But whoever is impatient exalts his foolishness.
For this is said by the Most High, the Sublime One, who dwells in eternity. And his name is Holy, for he dwells in the exalted and holy place, and he acts with a restrained and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
Most beloved, I beg you, as new arrivals and sojourners, to abstain from carnal desires, which battle against the soul.
And if your right eye causes you to sin, root it out and cast it away from you. For it is better for you that one of your members perish, than that your whole body be cast into Hell."Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it away from you. For it is better for you that one of your members perish, than that your whole body go into Hell.
Would a man be able to conceal fire in his bosom, so that his garments would not burn?Or could he walk over burning coals, so that his feet would not be burned?So also, he who enters to the wife of his neighbor shall not be clean when he touches her.
For if your brother is grieved because of your food, you are not now walking according to love. Do not allow your food to destroy him for whom Christ died.
Do you not know that, of those who run in a race, all of them, certainly, are runners, but only one achieves the prize. Similarly, you must run, so that you may achieve.And one who competes in a contest abstains from all things. And they do this, of course, so that they may achieve a corruptible crown. But we do this, so that we may achieve what is incorruptible.And so I run, but not with uncertainty. And so I fight, but not by flailing in the air.Instead, I chastise my body, so as to redirect it into servitude. Otherwise, I might preach to others, but become myself an outcast.
And a bishop, as a steward of God, must be without offense: not arrogant, not short-tempered, not a drunkard, not violent, not desiring tainted profit,
A patient man is better than a strong one. And whoever rules his soul is better than one who assaults cities.
For those who want to become rich fall into temptation and into the snare of the devil and into many useless and harmful desires, which submerge men in destruction and in perdition.
Be vigilant and pray, so that you may not enter into temptation. Indeed, the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."
And so, I beg you, brothers, by the mercy of God, that you offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, with the subservience of your mind.loving one another with fraternal charity, surpassing one another in honor:in solicitude, not lazy; in spirit, fervent; serving the Lord;in hope, rejoicing; in tribulation, enduring; in prayer, ever-willing;in the difficulties of the saints, sharing; in hospitality, attentive.Bless those who are persecuting you: bless, and do not curse.Rejoice with those who are rejoicing. Weep with those who are weeping.Be of the same mind toward one another: not savoring what is exalted, but consenting in humility. Do not choose to seem wise to yourself.Render to no one harm for harm. Provide good things, not only in the sight of God, but also in the sight of all men.If it is possible, in so far as you are able, be at peace with all men.Do not defend yourselves, dearest ones. Instead, step aside from wrath. For it is written: "Vengeance is mine. I shall give retribution, says the Lord."And do not choose to be conformed to this age, but instead choose to be reformed in the newness of your mind, so that you may demonstrate what is the will of God: what is good, and what is well-pleasing, and what is perfect.
But the fruit of the Spirit is charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, forbearance,
A merciful man benefits his own soul. But whoever is cruel casts out even his close relatives.
For a foolish man speaks foolishness and his heart works iniquity in order to accomplish deception. And he speaks to the Lord deceitfully, so as to empty the soul of the hungry and to take away drink from the thirsty.
Unto the end. A Psalm of David. Judge me, Lord, for I have been walking in my innocence, and by hoping in the Lord, I will not be weakened.in whose hands are iniquities: their right hand has been filled by bribes.But as for me, I have been walking in my innocence. Redeem me, and have mercy on me.My foot has stood firm in the straight path. In the churches, I will bless you, O Lord.Examine me, Lord, and test me: enkindle my temperament and my heart.
Let your heart enter into doctrine, and let your ears enter into words of knowledge.Do not be willing to take away discipline from a child. For if you strike him with the rod, he will not die.You will strike him with the rod, and so shall you deliver his soul from Hell.
And that servant, who knew the will of his Lord, and who did not prepare and did not act according to his will, will be beaten many times over.Yet he who did not know, and who acted in a way that deserves a beating, will be beaten fewer times. So then, of all to whom much has been given, much will be required. And of those to whom much has been entrusted, even more will be asked.
envy, murder, inebriation, carousing, and similar things. About these things, I continue to preach to you, as I have preached to you: that those who act in this way shall not obtain the kingdom of God.But the fruit of the Spirit is charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, forbearance,
Be anxious about nothing. But in all things, with prayer and supplication, with acts of thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to God.And so shall the peace of God, which exceeds all understanding, guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of holiness is prudence.
Therefore, let us not sleep, as the rest do. Instead, we should be vigilant and sober.
You have discovered honey; eat what is sufficient for you, lest perhaps, being filled up, you may vomit it.
Therefore, let not sin reign in your mortal body, such that you would obey its desires.Nor should you offer the parts of your body as instruments of iniquity for sin. Instead, offer yourselves to God, as if you were living after death, and offer the parts of your body as instruments of justice for God.
And so, let us not be deficient in doing good. For in due time, we shall reap without fail.