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101 Bible verses about Alcohol
I want to share something powerful with you. Through Jesus, you can overcome sin and any obstacle you face. He came to save us and conquered every temptation without sinning. His sacrifice offers forgiveness, and his resurrection proves his power over death itself.
God's healing goes far beyond just managing cravings or vices; His immense power completely eradicates addiction. Jesus defeated the enemy and is ready to free you from despair and death.
All you have to do is allow the Holy Spirit to transform your life. No excuses. In Christ, you'll find the strength to overcome anything. Hang in there! You can be a living testament to Jesus' transforming power.
And do not choose to be inebriated by wine, for this is self-indulgence. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit,
All is lawful to me, but not all is expedient. All is lawful to me, but I will not be driven back by the authority of anyone.
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.
It is a luxurious thing, wine, and inebriation is tumultuous. Anyone who is delighted by this will not be wise.
And Noah, a good farmer, began to cultivate the land, and he planted a vineyard.And by drinking its wine, he became inebriated and was naked in his tent.
If we confess our sins, then he is faithful and just, so as to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all iniquity.
Be sober and vigilant. For your adversary, the devil, is like a roaring lion, traveling around and seeking those whom he might devour.
Come, let us inebriate him with wine, and let us sleep with him, so that we may be able to preserve offspring from our father."And so they gave their father wine to drink that night. And the elder went in, and she slept with her father. But he did not perceive it, neither when his daughter lay down, nor when she rose up.Likewise, the next day, the elder said to the younger: "Behold, yesterday I slept with my father, let us give him wine to drink yet again this night, and you will sleep with him, so that we may save offspring from our father."And then they gave their father wine to drink that night also, and the younger daughter went in, and slept with him. And not even then did he perceive when she lay down, or when she rose up.
Temptation should not take hold of you, except what is human. For God is faithful, and he will not permit you to be tempted beyond your ability. Instead, he will effect his Providence, even during temptation, so that you may be able to bear it.
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.
You shall not adore them, nor shall you worship them. I am the Lord your God: strong, zealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the sons to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
Be vigilant and pray, so that you may not enter into temptation. Indeed, the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."
"You shall not drink wine, nor anything that is able to inebriate you or your sons, when you enter into the tabernacle of the testimony, lest you die. For it is an everlasting precept in your generations.
For if we have been planted together, in the likeness of his death, so shall we also be, in the likeness of his resurrection.For we know this: that our former selves have been crucified together with him, so that the body which is of sin may be destroyed, and moreover, so that we may no longer serve sin.
For the grace of God our Savior has appeared to all men,instructing us to reject impiety and worldly desires, so that we may live soberly and justly and piously in this age,
shall abstain from wine and from anything which is able to inebriate. They shall not drink vinegar made from wine or from any other drink, nor anything pressed from the grape. They shall not eat grapes, neither fresh nor dried.
You did not eat bread, nor did you drink wine or liquor, so that you would know that I am the Lord your God.
Therefore, take care that you do not drink wine or strong drink. Neither shall you eat anything unclean.
But he responded: 'Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. Take care that you do not drink wine or strong drink. And you shall not consume anything unclean. For the boy shall be a Nazirite of God from his infancy, from his mother's womb, even until the day of his death.' "
and so he said to her: "How long will you be inebriated? You should take only a little wine, but instead you are drenched."Responding, Hannah said: "By no means, my lord. For I am an exceedingly unhappy woman, and I drank neither wine, nor anything that can inebriate. Instead, I have poured out my soul in the sight of the Lord.
And David called him, so that he might eat and drink before him, and he made him inebriated. And departing in the evening, he slept on his bedding, with the servants of his lord, and he did not go down to his own house.
Then Absalom commanded his servants, saying: "Observe when Amnon will have become drunk with wine. And when I say to you, 'Strike and kill him!' do not be afraid. For it is I who commands you. Be strong and valiant men."
And his servant Zimri, the commander of one half part the horsemen, rebelled against him. Now Elah was drinking at Tirzah, and he became inebriated in the house of Arza, the prefect of Tirzah.
And they went out at midday. But Benhadad was drinking; he was inebriated in his pavilion, and the thirty-two kings with him, who had arrived in order to assist him.
And they were in that place with David for three days, eating and drinking. For their brothers had made preparations for them.Also, there was Ishmaiah, from Gibeon, the strongest among the thirty and over the thirty; Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Jozabad, from Gederah;Moreover, those who were near to them, even as far as Issachar, and Zebulun, and Naphtali, were bringing, on donkeys and camels and mules and oxen, bread for their provisions, with grain, dried figs, dried grapes, wine, oil, and oxen and sheep, with all abundance. For indeed, there was joy in Israel.
Whoever loves a feast will be in deprivation. Whoever loves wine and fatness will not be enriched.
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.
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.
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.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.
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.
So then, go and eat your bread with rejoicing, and drink your wine with gladness. For your works are pleasing to God.
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.
Woe to you who are powerful at drinking wine, who are strong men in contriving inebriation!
Woe to the crown of arrogance, to the inebriated of Ephraim, and to the falling flower, the glory of his exultation, to those who were at the top of the very fat valley, staggering from wine.
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.
"Come, let us take wine, and be filled by inebriation. And as it is today, so shall it be tomorrow and for a long time."
And I placed before the sons of the house of the Rechabites bowls filled with wine, and chalices. And I said to them, "Drink wine."And they responded: "We will not drink wine. For Jonadab, the son of Rechab, our father, instructed us, saying: 'You shall not drink wine, you and your sons, in perpetuity.
But Daniel resolved in his heart that he would not be polluted with the king's meal, nor with the wine he drank, and he requested of the chief of the eunuchs that he might not be contaminated.
Belshazzar, the king, made a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and each one of them drank according to his age.But the queen, because of what had happened to the king and his nobles, entered the banquet house. And she spoke out, saying, "O king, live forever. Do not let your thoughts confuse you, neither should your face be altered.There is a man in your kingdom, who has the spirit of the holy gods within himself, and in the days of your father, knowledge and wisdom were found in him. For king Nebuchadnezzar, your father, appointed him leader of the astrologers, enchanters, Chaldeans, and soothsayers, even your father, I say to you, O king.For a greater spirit, and foresight, and understanding, and interpretation of dreams, and the revealing of secrets, and the solution to difficulties were found in him, that is, in Daniel, to whom the king gave the name Belteshazzar. Now, therefore, let Daniel be summoned, and he will explain the interpretation."Then Daniel was brought in before the king. And the king spoke to him, saying, "Are you Daniel, of the sons of the captivity of Judah, whom my father the king led out of Judea?I have heard of you, that you have the spirit of the gods, and that greater knowledge, as well as understanding and wisdom, have been found in you.And now the wise astrologers have entered into my presence, so as to read this writing and to reveal to me its interpretation. And they were not able to tell me the meaning of this writing.Furthermore, I have heard about you that you can interpret obscure things and solve difficulties. So then, if you succeed in reading the writing, and in revealing its interpretation, you will be clothed with purple, and you will have a chain of gold around your neck, and you will be the third leader in my kingdom."To this Daniel responded by saying directly to the king, "Your rewards should be for yourself, and the gifts of your house you may give to another, but I will read to you the writing, O king, and I will reveal to you its interpretation.O king, the Most High God gave to Nebuchadnezzar, your father, a kingdom and greatness, glory and honor.And because of the greatness that he gave to him, all peoples, tribes, and languages trembled and were afraid of him. Whomever he wished, he put to death; and whomever he wished, he destroyed; and whomever he wished, he exalted; and whomever he wished, he lowered.And so, when they were drunk, he instructed that the vessels of gold and silver should be brought, which Nebuchadnezzar, his father, had carried away from the temple, which was in Jerusalem, so that the king, and his nobles, and his wives, and the concubines, might drink from them.
But you have lifted yourself up against the Lord of heaven. And the vessels of his house have been presented before you. And you, and your nobles, and your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. Likewise, you have praised the gods of silver, and gold, and brass, iron, and wood and stone, who neither see, nor hear, nor feel, yet you have not glorified the God who holds your breath and all your ways in his hand.
Rouse yourselves, you drunkards, and weep and wail, all you who delight in drinking wine; for it has been cut off from your mouth.
And they have lain on garments taken in pledge next to every altar. And they drank the wine of the damned in the house of their God.
I wish that I were not a man who has breath, and that I rather spoke a lie. I will drop it down to you in wine and in drunkenness. And it will be this people on whom it will rain down.
And in the manner that wine deceives the heavy drinker, so will the arrogant man be deceived, and he will not be honored. He has enlarged his life like hellfire, and himself like death, and he is never fulfilled. And he will gather to himself all nations, and he will amass for himself all peoples.
Woe to anyone who gives a drink to a friend, releasing a drug and inebriating, so as to look upon their nakedness.
For John came neither eating nor drinking; and they say, 'He has a demon.'The Son of man came eating and drinking; and they say, 'Behold, a man who eats voraciously and who drinks wine, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.' But wisdom is justified by her sons."
and so, he begins to strike his fellow servants, and he eats and drinks with the inebriated:
For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will not drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.
For John the Baptist came, neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, 'He has a demon.'The Son of man came, eating and drinking, and you say, 'Behold, a voracious man and a drinker of wine, a friend of tax collectors and of sinners.'
And approaching him, he bound up his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them. And setting him on his pack animal, he brought him to an inn, and he took care of him.
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,
Let us walk honestly, as in the daylight, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in promiscuity and sexual immorality, not in contention and envy.
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, whether you eat or drink, or whatever else you may do, do everything for the glory of God.
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.
Therefore, let no one judge you as concerns food or drink, or a particular feast day, or feast days of new moons, or of Sabbaths.
Therefore, let us not sleep, as the rest do. Instead, we should be vigilant and sober.For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are inebriated, are inebriated in the night.But we, who are of the daylight, should be sober, being clothed with the breastplate of faith and of charity and having, as a helmet, the hope of salvation.
Therefore, it is necessary for a bishop to be beyond reproach, the husband of one wife, sober, prudent, gracious, chaste, hospitable, a teacher,not a drunkard, not combative but restrained, not quarrelsome, not covetous;
Similarly, deacons must be chaste, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not pursuing tainted profit,
Do not continue to drink only water, but make use of a little wine, for the sake of your stomach and your frequent infirmities.
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,
Old women, similarly, should be in holy attire, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teaching well,
For this reason, gird the waist of your mind, be sober, and hope perfectly in the grace that is offered to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ.
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.
The Lord has mixed a spirit of giddiness into its midst. And they have caused Egypt to err in all its works, like a drunken man who staggers and vomits.
I cried out to you from the ends of the earth. When my heart was in anguish, you exalted me on a rock. You have led me,
And you shall say to them: Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink, and be inebriated, and vomit, and fall down. And you shall not rise up before the face the sword that I will send among you.
Be stupefied and in wonder! Shake and quiver! Be inebriated, but not from wine! Stagger, but not from drunkenness!
Responding, Hannah said: "By no means, my lord. For I am an exceedingly unhappy woman, and I drank neither wine, nor anything that can inebriate. Instead, I have poured out my soul in the sight of the Lord.
They will grope as in the darkness, not the light, and he will make them stagger like drunkards.
Woe to you who are powerful at drinking wine, who are strong men in contriving inebriation!For you justify an impious man in exchange for bribes, and you carry away the justice of a just man from him.
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.
But if that evil servant has said in his heart, 'My lord has been delayed in returning,'and so, he begins to strike his fellow servants, and he eats and drinks with the inebriated:
Instead, I chastise my body, so as to redirect it into servitude. Otherwise, I might preach to others, but become myself an outcast.
And so, brothers, see to it that you walk cautiously, not like the foolish,but like the wise: atoning for this age, because this is an evil time.For this reason, do not choose to be imprudent. Instead, understand what is the will of God.And do not choose to be inebriated by wine, for this is self-indulgence. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit,
Pay attention to yourself and to doctrine. Pursue these things. For in doing so, you will save both yourself and those who listen to you.
But be careful not to let your liberty become a cause of sin to those who are weak.
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.
Perfect my steps in your paths, so that my footsteps may not be disturbed.I have cried out because you, O God, have listened to me. Incline your ear to me and heed my words.
Blessed is the land whose king is noble, and whose princes eat at the proper time, for refreshment and not for self-indulgence.
For I say to you, that I will not drink from the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God arrives."