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 ones, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor rapacious ones shall inherit the kingdom of God.

And “do not be drunk with wine,” in which is debauchery, but be filled by the Spirit, Prov. 23:31

Be not among heavy drinkers of wine, with a glutton of flesh to themselves,

Awake, drunkards, and weep. And wail, all wine drinkers, over the grape must, for it is cut off from your mouth.

for the drunkard and the one being a glutton lose all, and with drowsiness shall clothe one with rags.

Be self-controlled. Be watchful, because your adversary the devil walks about as a roaring lion seeking someone he may devour;

Or do you not know that unjust ones will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be led astray, neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor boy-abusers, nor homosexuals,nor thieves, nor covetous ones, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor rapacious ones shall inherit the kingdom of God.

It is good not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything by which your brother stumbles, or is caused to stumble, or is weak.

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Therefore, if the Son sets you free, you are free indeed.

Do not look at the wine when it is red, when it gives its sparkle in the cup, when it goes down smoothly,

They grope in the dark, and there is no light; and He makes them stagger like a drunkard.

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for rulers to lust for fermented drink,

Wine is a mocker, strong liquor is stirring, and each one straying by it is not being wise.

And Eli said to her, Until when will you be drunken? Put away your wine from you.

Now the works of the flesh are clearly revealed, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lustfulness,idolatry, sorcery, enmities, fightings, jealousies, angers, intrigues, dissensions, heresies,envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revelings, and things like these; of which I tell you beforehand, even as I also said before, that the ones practicing such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Woe to those who rise early in the morninog pursue fermented drink, tarrying in the twilight while wine inflames them!And the lyre and the harp, the timbrel and flute, and wine are at their feasts, but they do not look upon the work of Jehovah; yea, they do see. Therefore My people will go into exile without knowledge, and his men of glory into famine; and his multitude is parched with thirst.

Be not among heavy drinkers of wine, with a glutton of flesh to themselves,for the drunkard and the one being a glutton lose all, and with drowsiness shall clothe one with rags.

To whom is woe, to whom is sorrow? To whom are there contentions, to whom is babbling? To whom are wounds without cause? To whom are brilliant eyes?Those who stay long at the wine, those who go to seek mixed wine.Do not look at the wine when it is red, when it gives its sparkle in the cup, when it goes down smoothly,at its last it bites like a snake, and it stings like a viper.Your eyes shall look on strange women, and your heart shall speak perverse things;yes, you shall be as one who lies down in the heart of the sea, or as he who lies on the top of a mast,saying, They struck me! I was not sick! They beat me, yet I did not know. When I awaken I will add to it, I will still seek it.

For the time of life having passed is sufficient for us to have worked out the will of the nations, having gone on in wantonness, lusts, drunkennesses, revelries, carousings, and lawless idolatries;

Likewise, deacons are to be honorable, not double-tongued, not being given to much wine, not eager for ill gain,

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for rulers to lust for fermented drink,lest they drink and forget what is decreed, and pervert the right of all sons of affliction.

For a cup is in the hand of Jehovah; and the wine foams; it is fully mixed, and He pours out from it; surely all the wicked ones of the earth must drink and drain its dregs.

But take heed to yourselves that your hearts not be loaded down with headaches, and drinking, and anxieties of life, and that day come suddenly upon you.

Let us walk becomingly, as in the day, not in revelries and drunkenness, not in cohabitations and lustful acts, not in strife and envy.But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not make forethought of the flesh, for its lusts.

But now I wrote to you not to associate intimately; if anyone being named a brother and is either a fornicator, or a covetous one, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a rapacious one, with such a one not to eat.

Give fermented drink to one perishing, and wine to the bitter of soul,let him drink and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revelings, and things like these; of which I tell you beforehand, even as I also said before, that the ones practicing such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

For the ones sleeping sleep by night, and the ones being drunk are drunk by night.

Blessed are you, O land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your leaders eat in due time, in strength, and not in drinking.

they reel and stagger like a drunken man, and all their wisdom is swallowed up;

The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son makes a father rejoice, but a son who is a fool is a mother’s sorrow.

You prepare a table for me before ones distressing me; You anoint my head with oil; my cup runs over.

I will meditate in Your precepts and I will regard Your paths.

Turn my eyes from seeing vanity; in Your way give me life.

Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge, but he hating chastisement is one of stupidity.

and begins to beat his fellow slaves, and to eat and to drink with the ones being drunk.

But if that slave should say in his heart, My lord delays to come, and should begin to beat the men servants and the female servants, and to eat and to drink and be drunk,the lord of that slave will come in the day in which he does not expect, and in an hour which he does not know. And He will cut him in two and will put his portion with the unbelievers.

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

For each one takes his own supper first in order to eat; and one is hungry, and another drunken.

You shall vomit the bit you have eaten and spoil your pleasant words.

Put not your trust in nobles, in a son of man, for there is no salvation in him.

I searched in my heart how to draw out my flesh with wine, and leading my heart in wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, until I might see where the good for the sons of men is, that which they should do under the heavens the number of days of their life.

Beloved ones, I exhort you as foreigners and aliens to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul;

Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and the fading flower, the glory of his beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley of those smitten with wine!Behold, a strong and mighty one is to the Lord, like a hailstorm, a destroying storm; like a storm of mighty waters overflowing; He sets down to the earth with His hand.The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trampled down by feet.

Then whether you eat or drink, or anything you do, do all things to the glory of God.

The butterings of his mouth were smooth, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, but they were as drawn swords.

One keeping the law is a wise son, but one feeding those being worthless shames his father.

And be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, in order to prove by you what is the good and pleasing and perfect will of God.

No longer drink water, but use a little wine on account of your stomach and your frequent infirmities.

Foolishness is joy to him who lacks understanding, but a man of understanding directs his going.

A man who loves pleasure shall have poverty, he who loves wine and oil shall not be rich.

Do you not know that those running in a stadium indeed all run, but one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain.But everyone striving controls himself in all things. Then the ones truly that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.Therefore, so I run, as not uncertainly; so I fight, as not beating air;but I buffet my body and enslave it, lest having preached to others I myself might be disapproved.

For he shall be great in the eyes of the Lord, and he shall not drink wine or strong drink. And he will be filled of the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

A wise warrior is in strength: yes, a man of knowledge firms up power.

And also every man that eats and drinks, and sees good in his labor, it is the gift of God.

Let your kind spirit be known to all men. The Lord is near.

Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion; bad lust, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

The way of a foolish one is right in his own eyes, but he who listens to advice is wise.

Brothers, if a man is taken in some deviation, you, the spiritual ones, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering yourself, that you not also be tempted.

My son, cease to hear the chastening only to stray from the words of knowledge.

nor give place to the devil.

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

Do not let my heart turn aside to any evil thing, to thrust out deeds in wickedness with men who do iniquity; and do not let me eat of their delicacies.

But I say to you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine after this, not until that day when I drink it new with you in the kingdom of My Father.

He satisfies the thirsty soul, and He fills the hungry soul with good.

Therefore, brothers, I call on you through the compassions of God to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service.

Do you not know that you are a temple of God, and the Spirit of God dwells in you?

One of simplicity believes every word, but the prudent one considers his step.

On me, O God, are Your vows; I will render to You thank offerings.For You have delivered my soul from death. Are You not keeping my feet from falling, to 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 wine drinker, and a friend of tax collectors, and of sinners. And wisdom was justified of her children.

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, Behold, a man, a glutton and a winedrinker, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.

When you sit down to eat with a ruler; considering, consider what is before you,and put a knife to your throat if you are an owner of a soul.Do not desire his delicacies, for it is the bread of lies.

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

Come, and let me take wine, and let us gulp down fermented liquor; and tomorrow shall be as this day, great, exceedingly abundant.

But the one doubting, if he eats, he has been condemned, because it is not of faith; and all which is not of faith is sin.

The wicked one borrows and never repays, but the righteous one is gracious and giving.

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

and not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous one, or with rapacious ones, or with idolaters, since then you must go out of the world.

A man who loves wisdom gladdens his father, but one feeding ones doing adultery wastes wealth.

But we, the powerful ones, ought to bear the weaknesses of the ones not powerful, and not to please ourselves.For let each one of us please his neighbor for good, to building up.

But You, O God, will bring them down to the pit of destruction; men of blood and deceit will not live out half their days; but I will trust in You.

Have you found honey? Eat only your fill lest you be satiated and vomit it out.

Now the works of the flesh are clearly revealed, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lustfulness,

One shutting his ears at the cry of the poor one, he himself shall also call and shall not be answered.

as children of obedience, not being conformed yourselves to your former lusts in your ignorance,

All things are lawful to me, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful to me, but not all things build up.

But also these also have erred by wine, and have strayed through fermented liquor; priest and prophet have erred through fermented liquor; they are swallowed from wine; they stagger from fermented liquor; they err in vision; they stumble in judgment;

A man of violence lures his neighbor, and causes him to go 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 buffet my body and enslave it, lest having preached to others I myself might be disapproved.

And he put on cursing as his garment, and it came within him like water, and like oil into his bones.

To work out evil devices is as laughter to the fool; so wisdom is to a man of understanding.

For each one will bear his own load.

My soul weeps with grief; Lift me up according to Your Word.

They shall not drink wine with the song; fermented liquor shall be bitter to those who drink it.

My son, hear you, and be wise, and advance your heart in the way.Be not among heavy drinkers of wine, with a glutton of flesh to themselves,for the drunkard and the one being a glutton lose all, and with drowsiness shall clothe one with rags.

Let them be ashamed and be confounded together, the ones who rejoice at my evil; let them be clothed with shame and dishonor, the ones who magnify themselves against me.

Then the Lord awoke, as a sleeping one, like a mighty man rejoicing with wine.

And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take rest, eat, drink, and be glad.

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