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 the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,

Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat,

Awake, you drunkards, and weep, and 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 will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.

Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.

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

So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.

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

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink,

Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.

And Eli said to her, “How long will you go on being drunk? Put your wine away from you.”

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you.idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Woe to those who rise early in the morning, that they may run after strong drink, who tarry late into the evening as wine inflames them!They have lyre and harp, tambourine and flute and wine at their feasts, but they do not regard the deeds of the Lord, or see the work of his hands.

Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat, for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food.Those who tarry long over wine; those who go to try mixed wine. Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder.Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart utter perverse things. You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, like one who lies on the top of a mast. “They struck me,” you will say, “but I was not hurt; they beat me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake? I must have another drink.”

For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.

Deacons likewise must be dignified, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for dishonest gain.

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink, lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted.

For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup with foaming wine, well mixed, and he pours out from it, and all the wicked of the earth shall drain it down to the dregs.

“But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap.

Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy.But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one.

Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress; let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more.

envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night.

Happy are you, O land, when your king is the son of the nobility, and your princes feast at the proper time, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

they reeled and staggered like drunken men and were at their wits’ end.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.

I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your ways.

Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things; and give me life in your ways.

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

and begins to beat his fellow servants and eats and drinks with drunkards,

But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and put him with the unfaithful.

For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

For in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal. One goes hungry, another gets drunk.

You will vomit up the morsels that you have eaten, and waste your pleasant words.

Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.

I searched with my heart how to cheer my body with wine—my heart still guiding me with wisdom—and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the children of man to do under heaven during the few days of their life.

Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.

Ah, the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim, and the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is on the head of the rich valley of those overcome with wine!For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.”For by people of strange lips and with a foreign tongue the Lord will speak to this people,to whom he has said, “This is rest; give rest to the weary; and this is repose”; yet they would not hear.And the word of the Lord will be to them precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little, that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you scoffers, who rule this people in Jerusalem!Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have an agreement, when the overwhelming whip passes through it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter”;therefore thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I am the one who has laid as a foundation in Zion, a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation: ‘Whoever believes will not be in haste.’And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plumb line; and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will overwhelm the shelter.”Then your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; when the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be beaten down by it.As often as it passes through it will take you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be sheer terror to understand the message. Behold, the Lord has one who is mighty and strong; like a storm of hail, a destroying tempest, like a storm of mighty, overflowing waters, he casts down to the earth with his hand.For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to wrap oneself in.For the Lord will rise up as on Mount Perazim; as in the Valley of Gibeon he will be roused; to do his deed—strange is his deed! and to work his work—alien is his work!Now therefore do not scoff, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord God of hosts against the whole land.Give ear, and hear my voice; give attention, and hear my speech.Does he who plows for sowing plow continually? Does he continually open and harrow his ground?When he has leveled its surface, does he not scatter dill, sow cumin, and put in wheat in rows and barley in its proper place, and emmer as the border? For he is rightly instructed; his God teaches him.Dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge, nor is a cart wheel rolled over cumin, but dill is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod.Does one crush grain for bread? No, he does not thresh it forever; when he drives his cart wheel over it with his horses, he does not crush it.This also comes from the Lord of hosts; he is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom.The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden underfoot;

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

His speech was smooth as butter, yet war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

The one who keeps the law is a son with understanding, but a companion of gluttons shames his father.

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

(No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.)

Folly is a joy to him who lacks sense, but a man of understanding walks straight ahead.

Whoever loves pleasure will be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil will not be rich.

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air.But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

for he will be great before the Lord. And he must not drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

A wise man is full of strength, and a man of knowledge enhances his might,

also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God’s gift to man.

Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand;

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.

Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.

Cease to hear instruction, my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge.

and give no opportunity to the devil.

Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.

Do not let my heart incline to any evil, to busy myself with wicked deeds in company with men who work iniquity, and let me not eat of their delicacies!

I tell you I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.”

For he satisfies the longing soul, and the hungry soul he fills with good things.

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?

The simple believes everything, but the prudent gives thought to his steps.

I must perform my vows to you, O God; I will render thank offerings to you. For you have delivered my soul from death, yes, my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds.”

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

When you sit down to eat with a ruler, observe carefully what is before you, Do not move an ancient landmark or enter the fields of the fatherless,for their Redeemer is strong; he will plead their cause against you. Apply your heart to instruction and your ear to words of knowledge.Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die. If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol. My son, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad.My inmost being will exult when your lips speak what is right. Let not your heart envy sinners, but continue in the fear of the Lord all the day. Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off. Hear, my son, and be wise, and direct your heart in the way. and put a knife to your throat if you are given to appetite.Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat, for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags. Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old. Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.Let your father and mother be glad; let her who bore you rejoice. My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways. For a prostitute is a deep pit; an adulteress is a narrow well. She lies in wait like a robber and increases the traitors among mankind.Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food.

For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.

“Come,” they say, “let me get wine; let us fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be like this day, great beyond measure.”

But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.

The wicked borrows but does not pay back, but the righteous is generous and gives;

let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more.

not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.

He who loves wisdom makes his father glad, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.

We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves.And again it is said, “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his people.” And again, “Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, and let all the peoples extol him.”And again Isaiah says, “The root of Jesse will come, even he who arises to rule the Gentiles; in him will the Gentiles hope.” May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope. I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another.But on some points I have written to you very boldly by way of reminder, because of the grace given me by Godto be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.In Christ Jesus, then, I have reason to be proud of my work for God.For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience—by word and deed,by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God—so that from Jerusalem and all the way around to Illyricum I have fulfilled the ministry of the gospel of Christ;Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.

But you, O God, will cast them down into the pit of destruction; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.

If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, lest you have your fill of it and vomit it.

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,

Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered.

As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,

“All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up.

These also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed by wine, they stagger with strong drink, they reel in vision, they stumble in giving judgment.

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

For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.

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

But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

He clothed himself with cursing as his coat; may it soak into his body like water, like oil into his bones!

Doing wrong is like a joke to a fool, but wisdom is pleasure to a man of understanding.

For each will have to bear his own load.

My soul melts away for sorrow; strengthen me according to your word!

No more do they drink wine with singing; strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.

Hear, my son, and be wise, and direct your heart in the way. and put a knife to your throat if you are given to appetite.Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat, for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.

Let them be put to shame and disappointed altogether who rejoice at my calamity! Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me!

Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a strong man shouting because of wine.

And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.”’

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