101 Bible verses about Alcohol

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And do not be drunk with wine (in which is dissipation), but be filled by the Spirit,

For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.

All things are permitted for me, but not all things are profitable. All things are permitted for me, but I will not be controlled by anything.

So if the son sets you free, you will be truly free.

nor thieves, nor greedy persons, not drunkards, not abusive persons, not swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and any who go astray by it are not wise.

And Noah began to be a man of the ground, and he planted a vineyard.And he drank some of the wine and became drunk, and he exposed himself in the midst of his tent.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, so that he will forgive us our sins and will cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Therefore subject yourselves to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Be sober; be on the alert. Your adversary the devil walks around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.

Come, let us give our father wine to drink and let us lie with him that we may secure descendants through our father.”And they gave their father wine to drink that night, and the firstborn went and lay with her father, but he did not know when she lay down or when she got up.And it happened that, the next day the firstborn said to the younger one, “Look, I laid with my father last night. Let us give him wine to drink also tonight, then go and lie with him that we may secure descendants through our father.”And they gave their father wine to drink again that night, and the younger got up and lay with him, but he did not know when she lay down or when she got up.

Temptation has not come upon you except what is common to humanity. But God is faithful, who will not permit you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but will also make a way out together with the temptation, so that you may be able to endure it.

It is good not to eat meat or to drink wine or to do anything by which your brother stumbles or is offended or is weakened.

You will not bow down to them, and you will not serve them, because I am Yahweh your God, a jealous God, punishing the guilt of the parents on the children on the third and on the fourth generations of those hating me,

Stay awake and pray that you will not enter into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak!”

“You and your sons with you may not drink wine or strong drink when you come to the tent of assembly, so that you will not die—it is a lasting statute for your generations—

For if we have become identified with him in the likeness of his death, certainly also we will be identified with him in the likeness of his resurrection,knowing this, that our old man was crucified together with him, in order that the body of sin may be done away with, that we may no longer be enslaved to sin.

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people,training us in order that, denying impiety and worldly desires, we may live self-controlled and righteously and godly in the present age,

he will abstain from wine and fermented drink; he will not drink wine vinegar or vinegar of fermented drink; he will not drink the fruit juice of grapes or eat fresh or dry grapes.

You have not eaten bread, and you have not drunk wine and strong drink, so that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.

So then, be careful and do not drink wine or strong drink, and do not eat anything unclean,

And he said to me, ‘Look, you will conceive and bear a son, so then, do not drink wine or strong drink, and do not eat anything unclean, for the boy will be a Nazirite of God from birth until the day of his death.’ ”

Then Eli said to her, “How long will you behave like someone who is drunk? Put away your wine!”But Hannah answered and said, “No, my lord. I am a woman deeply distressed, but I have not drunk wine or strong drink. Rather, I have poured out my soul before Yahweh.

David invited him, and he ate and drank in his presence so that he became drunk, and he went out in the evening to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.

Absalom commanded his servants, saying, “Please watch. At the moment the heart of Amnon is tipsy with wine, then I shall say to you, ‘Strike Amnon down,’ and you shall kill him! Don’t be afraid. Is it not I myself who has commanded you? Be courageous and be valiant!

His servant Zimri the commander of half of the chariots conspired against him. Now he had been in Tirzah drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza who was over the palace in Tirzah.

They went out at noon while Ben-Hadad was drinking himself drunk in the tents, he and the thirty-two kings helping him.

And they were there with David three days, eating and drinking, for their kinsmen were prepared for them.Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty warrior among the thirty who was over the thirty; Jeremiah; Jahaziel; Johanan; Jozabad the Gederathite;And also their relatives, as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought food on donkeys, on camels, on mules, and on oxen—provisions of flour, cakes of figs, raisin cakes, wine and oil, cattle and sheep in abundance, for there was great joy in Israel.

For there is a cup in the hand of Yahweh with wine that foams, fully mixed, and he pours out from this. Surely all the wicked of the land will quaff it down to its dregs.

and wine that makes glad the heart of man, so that their faces shine from oil, and bread that strengthens the heart of man.

For they ate the bread of wickedness, and they drank the wine of violence.

A man of want is he who loves pleasure; he who loves wine and oil will not become rich.

You, my child, hear and be wise, and direct your heart on the road.and you shall put a knife to your throat if you have a big appetite.Do not be among drinkers of wine, among gluttonous eaters of their meat.

To whom is woe? To whom is sorrow? To whom are quarrels? To whom is complaint? To whom are wounds without cause? To whom is redness of the eyes?Do not desire his delicacies, for it is food of deception.To those who linger over wine, to those who come to try mixed wine.

Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles on the cup, going down smoothly.In the end, it will bite like a serpent, and it will sting like an adder.

It is not for the kings, O Lemuel; drinking wine is not for the kings, nor is strong drink for rulers.

Or else he will drink and forget what has been decreed, and he will pervert the rights of all the afflicted.Give strong drink to him who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress.He will drink and forget his poverty, and his misery he will not remember any more.

I also explored the effects of indulging my flesh with wine. My mind guiding me with wisdom, I investigated folly so that I might discover what is good under heaven for humans to do during the days of their lives.

Go—eat your food with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart! For God already has approved your deeds.

Ah! Those who rise early in the morning, they pursue strong drink. Those who linger in the evening, wine inflames them.

Ah! Heroes at drinking wine, and men of capability at mixing strong drink!

They do not drink wine with song; strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.

Ah! The garland of the pride of the drunkards of Ephraim and the withering flower of the glory of his beauty, which is at the head of the rich valley, ones overcome with wine!

And these also stagger because of wine and stagger because of strong drink; priest and prophet stagger because of strong drink; they are confused because of wine. They stagger because of strong drink; they err in vision. They stagger in the rendering of a decision,

“Come, let me take wine, and let us carouse with intoxicating drink, and tomorrow will be like today, very great indeed.”

Then I set before the house of the Rechabites bowls full of wine and cups, and I said to them, “Drink wine.”But they answered, “We will not drink wine, for Jonadab, the son of Rechab, our ancestor, commanded us, saying, ‘You shall not drink wine, you or your children, forever.

And no priest shall drink wine when they come into the inner courtyard.

Now Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the fine food of the king, and with the wine that he drank, and so he requested from the commander of the court officials permission so that he would not defile himself.

Belshazzar the king made a great festival for a thousand of his lords, and in the presence of the thousand lords he was drinking wine.Because of the words of the king and his lords, the queen came into the banqueting hall and the queen spoke up and said, “O king, live forever, and let not your thoughts terrify you and do not let your facial expressions grow pale.There is a man in your kingdom who has the spirit of the holy gods in him. And in the days of your predecessor, enlightenment and insight and wisdom like the wisdom of the gods was found in him; and, O king, Nebuchadnezzar your predecessor appointed him as chief of the magicians, the conjurers, the astrologers, and the diviners. Your predecessor the king did thisbecause there was found in him an excellent spirit and understanding and insight for interpreting dreams and explaining riddles and solving riddles; that is, in Daniel whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now, let Daniel be called and he will tell the explanation.”Then Daniel was brought in before the king, and the king spoke and said to Daniel, “You are Daniel who are one of the exiles of Judah whom my predecessor, the king, brought from Judah.And I have heard that a spirit of the gods is in you and enlightenment and insight and excellent wisdom was found in you.And now the wise men and the conjurers were brought in before me so that they could read this writing in order to make its explanation known to me, but they were not able to disclose the explanation of the matter.But I have heard concerning you that you are able to produce interpretations and to solve riddles; now if you are able to read the writing and to make known its explanation to me, you will be clothed in purple and a necklace of gold will be placed around your neck and you will rule as third in command in the kingdom.”Then Daniel answered and said before the king, “Let your gifts be for yourself or your rewards give to another; nevertheless, I will read the writing to the king and I will make known to him the explanation.O king, the Most High God gave the kingdom and the greatness and the glory and the majesty to Nebuchadnezzar your predecessor.And because of the greatness that he gave to him, all the peoples, the nations and languages trembled and feared before him; whomever he wanted he killed, and whomever he wanted he let live, and whomever he wanted he honored, and whomever he wanted he humbled.When he tasted the wine, Belshazzar commanded that they bring the vessels of gold and silver that Nebuchadnezzar his predecessor had taken from the temple that was in Jerusalem, so that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines may drink from them.

And now you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven, and the vessels of his temple you have brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have been drinking wine from them, and you have praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone that do not see and do not hear and do not know, but the God who holds your life in his hand and all of your ways come from him, you have not honored.

whoredom. Wine and new wine take away the understanding.

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

They stretch themselves out beside every altar on clothing taken in pledge and they drink wine, bought with fines imposed, in the house of their God.

If a man walks about in a spirit of deception and lies, saying “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” then he would be a preacher for this people!

How much less the defiant; the arrogant, treacherous man? He who broadens his throat like Sheol, and who, like death, is not satisfied, and who gathers to himself all the nations, and harvested for himself all the peoples, will not succeed.

Woe to him who gives a drink to his neighbors, pouring out your wrath and also making them drunk in order to see 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 is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.”

and he begins to beat his fellow slaves and eats and drinks with drunkards,

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he must never drink wine or beer, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit while he is still in his mother’s womb.

For John the Baptist has come not eating bread or drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon!’The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a man who is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

And he came up and bandaged his wounds, pouring on olive oil and wine, and he put him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him.

But if that slave should say to himself, ‘My master is taking a long time to return,’ and he begins to beat the male slaves and the female slaves and to eat and drink and get drunk,

Let us live decently, as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and licentiousness, not in strife and jealousy.

But now I have written to you not to associate with any so-called brother, if he is a sexually immoral person or a greedy person or an idolater or an abusive person or a drunkard or a swindler—with such a person not even to eat.

Therefore, whether you eat or you drink or whatever you do, do all things for the glory of God.

Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are sexual immorality, impurity, licentiousness,Look! I, Paul, tell you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing!idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, factions,envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, things which I am telling you in advance, just as I said before, that the ones who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Let your gentleness be made known to all people. The Lord is near.

Therefore do not let anyone judge you with reference to eating or drinking or participation in a feast or a new moon or a Sabbath,

So then, we must not sleep like the rest, but must be on the alert and be self-controlled.For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night.But because we are of the day, we must be sober, by putting on the breastplate of faith and love and as a helmet the hope of salvation,

Therefore the overseer must be irreproachable, the husband of one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, skillful in teaching,not addicted to wine, not a violent person, but gentle, peaceable, not loving money,

Deacons likewise must be dignified, not insincere, not devoted to much wine, not fond of dishonest gain,

(No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for your stomach and your frequent illnesses.)

For it is necessary for the overseer to be blameless as God’s steward, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not addicted to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain,

Older women likewise are to be reverent in their behavior, not slanderous, not enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good,

Therefore, when you have prepared your minds for action by being self-controlled, put your hope completely in the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

For the time that has passed was sufficient to do what the Gentiles desire to do, having lived in licentiousness, evil desires, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties, and wanton idolatries,

Their wine is the poison of snakes, and the deadly poison of horned vipers.

Yahweh has mixed a spirit of confusion into her midst, and they have caused Egypt to stagger in all of its doings, as when a drunkard staggers in his vomit.

You have shown your people hard things; You have given us wine that staggers.

“And you shall say to them, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, “Drink and become drunk, and vomit, and fall, and you must not rise because of the presence of the sword that I am sending among you.” ’

Give strong drink to him who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress.

They reeled and staggered like a drunkard, and they were at their wits’ end.

Be astonished and be amazed! Blind yourselves and be blinded! They are drunk but not from wine; they stagger but not from strong drink.

But Hannah answered and said, “No, my lord. I am a woman deeply distressed, but I have not drunk wine or strong drink. Rather, I have poured out my soul before Yahweh.

They grope in the dark without light, and he makes them stagger like a drunkard.

Ah! Heroes at drinking wine, and men of capability at mixing strong drink!Those who acquit the guilty because of a bribe and remove the justice of the innocent from him.

Those sitting at the gate talk about me as also the songs of the drunkards.

Give strong drink to him who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress.He will drink and forget his poverty, and his misery he will not remember any more.

But if that evil slave should say to himself, ‘My master is staying away for a long time,’and he begins to beat his fellow slaves and eats and drinks with drunkards,

But I discipline my body and subjugate it, lest somehow after preaching to others, I myself should become disqualified.

Therefore, consider carefully how you live, not as unwise but as wise,making the most of the time because the days are evil.Because of this do not become foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.And do not be drunk with wine (in which is dissipation), but be filled by the Spirit,

Fix your attention on yourself and on your teaching. Continue in them, for by doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

But watch out lest somehow this right of yours becomes a cause for stumbling to the weak.

“But take care for yourselves, lest your hearts are weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of daily life, and that day come upon you suddenly

Yahweh is the portion which is my share and my cup. You hold my lot.The measuring lines have fallen for me in pleasant places. Yes, my inheritance is delightful for me.

You prepare before me a table in the presence of my oppressors. You anoint my head with oil; my cup is overflowing.

Blessed are you, O land, when your king is a son of nobility and your princes feast at the proper time— to gain strength and not to get drunk.

For I tell you, from now on I will not drink of the product of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”

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