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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 greedy persons, not drunkards, not abusive persons, not swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
Wake up, drunkards, and weep! Wail, all drinkers of wine, over the new wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.
For the drunkard and gluttonous, they will become poor, and with rags, drowsiness will clothe them.
Be sober; be on the alert. Your adversary the devil walks around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.
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.
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.
It is not for the kings, O Lemuel; drinking wine is not for the kings, nor is strong drink for rulers.
Then Eli said to her, “How long will you behave like someone who is drunk? Put away your wine!”
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.
Ah! Those who rise early in the morning, they pursue strong drink. Those who linger in the evening, wine inflames them.And there will be lyre and harp, tambourine and flute, and wine at their feasts, but they do not look at the deeds of Yahweh, and they do not see the work of his hands.
Do not be among drinkers of wine, among gluttonous eaters of their meat.For the drunkard and gluttonous, they will become poor, and with rags, drowsiness will clothe them.
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.Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart will speak perverse things.And you will be like him who lies down in the heart of the sea, and like him who lies down on top of a mast.“They struck me; I was not hurt. They beat me; I did not know it. When I will awake, I will continue; I will seek it again.”
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,
Deacons likewise must be dignified, not insincere, not devoted to much wine, not fond of dishonest gain,
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.
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.
“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
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 put on the Lord Jesus Christ and do not make provision for the desires of the flesh.
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.
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.
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.
For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night.
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.
The proverbs of Solomon: A wise child makes a father glad, but a foolish child grieves his mother.
You prepare before me a table in the presence of my oppressors. You anoint my head with oil; my cup is overflowing.
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,the master of that slave will come on a day that he does not expect and at an hour that he does not know, and will cut him in two and assign his place with the unbelievers.
For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
For when you eat it, each one of you goes ahead to take his own supper, and one is hungry and another is drunk.
Your morsel you have eaten, you will vomit it up, and you will waste your pleasant words.
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.
Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and temporary residents to abstain from fleshly desires which wage war against your soul,
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!For it is blah-blah upon blah-blah, blah-blah upon blah-blah, gah-gah upon gah-gah, gah-gah upon gah-gah, a little here, a little there.For he will speak with stammering and another tongue to this people,to whom he has said, “This is rest; give rest to the weary; and this is repose”; yet they were not willing to hear.And to them the word of Yahweh will be blah-blah upon blah-blah blah-blah upon blah-blah gah-gah upon gah-gah gah-gah upon gah-gah, a little here, a little there, so that they may go and stumble backward and be broken and ensnared and captured.Therefore hear the word of Yahweh, men of mockery, rulers of these people in Jerusalem:Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, and we have made an agreement with Sheol. The overwhelming flood, when it passes through, will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves in falsehood.”Therefore the Lord Yahweh says this: “Look! I am laying a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a founded foundation: ‘The one who trusts will not panic.’And I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line; and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will flood over the hiding place.And your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; you will become a trampling place for the overwhelming flood when it passes through.As often as it passes through, it will take you, for morning by morning it will pass through, in the day and in the night, and understanding the message will be only terror.”Look! The Lord has a mighty and strong one, like a rainstorm of hail, a wind storm of destruction, like a rainstorm of mighty overflowing waters, he will put them to the earth with his hand.For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the covering is too narrow when wrapping oneself.For Yahweh will rise up as at Mount Perazim; he will rave as in the valley at Gibeon to do his deed—his deed is strange— and to work his work—his work is alien!And now you must not scoff, or your bonds will be strong, for I have heard from the Lord, Yahweh of hosts: complete destruction decreed upon all the land.Listen, and hear my voice! Listen attentively, and hear my word!Is it all day that the plowman plows, opens to sow seed, harrows his ground?When he has leveled its surface, does he not scatter dill, and sow cumin seed, and plant wheat in planted rows, and barley in an appointed place, and spelt grain as its border?And his God instructs him about the prescription; he teaches him.For dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge, nor is a wheel of a utility cart rolled over cumin, but dill is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod.Grain is crushed fine, but certainly one does not thresh it forever; and one drives the wheel of his cart, but his horses do not crush it.This also comes forth from Yahweh of hosts. He is wonderful in advice; he makes great wisdom.The garland of the pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trampled by feet,
Therefore, whether you eat or you drink or whatever you do, do all things for the glory of God.
The buttery words of his mouth were smooth, but there was battle in his heart. His words were smoother than oil, but they were drawn swords.
He who keeps instruction is a child of understanding, but the companion of gluttons will shame his father.
And do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, so that you may approve what is the good and well-pleasing and perfect will of God.
(No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for your stomach and your frequent illnesses.)
Folly is a joy to him who lacks sense, and a person of understanding will walk upright.
A man of want is he who loves pleasure; he who loves wine and oil will not become rich.
Do you not know that those who run in the stadium all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.And everyone who competes exercises self-control in all things. Thus those do so in order that they may receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable one.Therefore I run in this way, not as running aimlessly; I box in this way, not as beating the air.But I discipline my body and subjugate it, lest somehow after preaching to others, I myself should become disqualified.
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.
And for anyone to eat and drink, that is, to enjoy the fruit of all his toil, this also is a gift of God.
Therefore put to death what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustful passion, evil desire, and greediness, which is idolatry,
Brothers, even if a person is caught in some trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a person in a spirit of humility, looking out for yourself, lest you also be tempted.
Cease to listen to instruction, my child, and you will stray from sayings of knowledge.
He who is slow to anger is better than him who is mighty, and he who controls his spirit than him who captures a city.
Do not incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice wicked deeds with men who do iniquity; and do not let me eat of their delicacies.
But I tell you, from now on I will never drink of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in the kingdom of my Father.”
Therefore I exhort you, brothers, through the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service.
My vows to you, O God, are binding upon me. I will pay thank offerings to you,because you have delivered my soul from death. Have you not kept my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
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.”
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!’
When you sit to eat with a ruler, you shall surely observe what is before you,Do not remove an ancient boundary marker, and on the fields of orphans do not encroach;For their redeemer is strong, he himself will plead their cause against you.Apply your heart to instruction, and your ear to sayings of knowledge.Do not withhold discipline from a child, if you will beat him with the rod, he will not die.As for you, with the rod you shall beat him, and his life you will save from Sheol.My child, if your heart is wise, my heart will be glad—even me!And my insides will rejoice when your lips speak what is upright.May your heart not envy the sinners, but live in fear of Yahweh all day.Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.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.For the drunkard and gluttonous, they will become poor, and with rags, drowsiness will clothe them.Listen to your father—he who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.Buy truth and do not sell it, wisdom and instruction and understanding.The father of the righteous will surely rejoice; he who bears a wise person will be happy with him.May your father and your mother be glad, and may she who bore you rejoice.My child, may you give your heart to me, and may your eyes delight in my ways.For a deep pit is a prostitute, and a narrow well is an adulteress.She is also like a robber lying in wait, and the faithless among mankind she increases.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.
For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh, for these are in opposition to one another, so that whatever you want, you may not do these things.
“Come, let me take wine, and let us carouse with intoxicating drink, and tomorrow will be like today, very great indeed.”
But the one who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not do so from faith, and everything that is not from faith is sin.
By no means did I mean the sexually immoral people of this world or the greedy people and swindlers or idolaters, since then you would have to depart out of the world.
A man who loves wisdom will make his parents glad, but the friend of prostitutes will squander his wealth.
But we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.And again it says, “Rejoice, Gentiles, with his people.”And again, “Praise the Lord, all the Gentiles, and let all the peoples praise him.”And again Isaiah says, “The root of Jesse will come, even the one who rises to rule over the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles will put their hope.”Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.Now I myself also am convinced about you, my brothers, that you yourselves also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to instruct one another.But I have written to you more boldly on some points, so as to remind you again because of the grace that has been given to me by God,with the result that I am a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving the gospel of God as a priest, in order that the offering of the Gentiles may become acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.Therefore I have a reason for boasting in Christ Jesus regarding the things concerning God.For I will not dare to speak about anything except that which Christ has accomplished through me, resulting in the obedience of the Gentiles by word and deed,by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit, so that from Jerusalem and traveling around as far as Illyricum I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.Let each one of us please his neighbor for his good, for the purpose of edification.
But you, O God, you will bring them down to the pit of corruption. The men of bloodshed and deceit will not live half their days, but I will trust you.
If you find honey, eat what is sufficient for you, lest you have your fill of it and vomit it out.
Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are sexual immorality, impurity, licentiousness,
He who closes his ear from the cry of the poor, he also will cry out and not be heard.
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former desires you used to conform to in your ignorance,
All things are permitted, but not all things are profitable. All things are permitted, but not all things build up.
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,
A person of violence will entice his neighbor and cause him to walk on a way that is not good.
But I discipline my body and subjugate it, lest somehow after preaching to others, I myself should become disqualified.
Because he wore a curse as his robe, let it enter his body like water, and into his bones like oil.
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.For the drunkard and gluttonous, they will become poor, and with rags, drowsiness will clothe them.
Let them be shamed and abashed altogether, who rejoice at my misfortune. Let them put on shame and insult, who magnify themselves against me.
Then the Lord awoke like one who had been asleep, awoke like a warrior who had been drunk with wine.
And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have many possessions stored up for many years. Relax, eat, drink, celebrate!” ’