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, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

And do not be drunk with wine, which leads to immorality; but be filled with the Spirit;

Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:

Awake, you drunkards, and weep; and howl, all you drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, like a roaring lion, walks around, seeking whom he may devour:

Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything by which your brother stumbles, or is offended, or is made weak.

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

If the Son therefore shall make you free, you shall be free indeed.

Do not look upon the wine when it is red, when it shows its color in the cup, when it moves itself pleasantly.

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

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

And Eli said to her, How long will you be drunken? put away your wine from you.

Now the works of the flesh are plain, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, disagreements, jealousy, anger, strife, divisions, heresies,Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like: of which I tell you in advance, as I have also told you in time past, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflames them!And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.

Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

Who has woe? who has sorrow? who has contentions? who has babbling? who has wounds without cause? who has redness of eyes?Those who remain long at the wine; those who go to seek mixed wine.Do not look upon the wine when it is red, when it shows its color in the cup, when it moves itself pleasantly.At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.Your eyes shall behold strange women, and your heart shall speak perverse things.Yea, you shall be as he that lies down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lies upon the top of a mast.They have struck me, shall you say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

For the time of our life that is past is sufficient for us to have done the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in corrupt passions, lusts, excess of wine, reveling, banqueting, and abominable idolatries:

Likewise must the deacons be serious, not double tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy for unjust gain;

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of a mixture; and he pours out from it: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall squeeze them out, and drink them.

And be careful of yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be weighed down with gluttony, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in impurity and licentiousness, not in disputing and envying.But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof.

But now I have written to you not to keep company, if anyone that is called a brother is a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a scoffer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one not even to eat.

Give strong drink to him that is ready to perish, and wine to those that be of heavy hearts.Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like: of which I tell you in advance, as I have also told you in time past, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

For those who sleep sleep in the night; and those who are drunken are drunken in the night.

Blessed are you, O land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes eat at the right time, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father: but a foolish son is the grief of his mother.

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

I will meditate on your precepts, and have respect towards your ways.

Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity; and revive me in your way.

He who loves instruction loves knowledge: but he who hates reproof is stupid.

And shall begin to strike his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;

But if that servant says in his heart, My lord is delaying his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;The lord of that servant will come in a day when he is not looking for him, and at an hour that he is not aware of, and will cut him in pieces, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.

For the kingdom of God is not food and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

For in eating every one has his own supper before the other: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, and lose your sweet words.

Do not put your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

I sought in my heart to give myself to wine, yet acquainting my heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.

Dearly beloved, I appeal to you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are at the head of the fat valleys of those who are overcome with wine!Behold, the Lord has one who is mighty and strong, who as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall throw them down to the earth with his hand.The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under foot:

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.

He who keeps the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of dissolute men shames his father.

And be not conformed to this world: but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent illnesses.

Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walks uprightly.

He that loves pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loves wine and oil shall not be rich.

Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain it.And everyone who strives for the victory is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so I fight, not as one who beats the air:But I keep control of my body, and bring it into subjection: so that, when I have preached to others, I myself should not by any means be lost.

For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increases strength.

And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labor, it is the gift of God.

Let your moderation be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.

Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, unsanctified passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry,

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that listens to counsel is wise.

Brethren, if a man is overtaken in a fault, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; considering yourself, lest you also be tempted.

Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causes to err from the words of knowledge.

Neither give place to the devil.

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that rules his spirit than he that takes a city.

Do not turn my heart towards any evil thing, to practice wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.

But I say to you, I will not drink henceforth 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 fills the hungry soul with goodness.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

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

The simple believe every word: but the prudent man looks well to his going.

Your vows are upon me, O God: I will return praises to you.For you have delivered my soul from death: will you not deliver my feet from falling, 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 gluttonous, and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners. But wisdom is justified by her children.

The Son of man came eating and drinking; and you say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!

When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you:And put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.Do not desire his delicacies: for they are deceitful food.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary to one another: so that you cannot do the things that you would.

Come, they say, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be like this day, and much more abundant.

And he that doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not eat in faith: for whatever is not of faith is sin.

The wicked borrows, and does not pay back: but the righteous shows mercy, and gives.

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

Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then you would have to go out of the world.

He who loves wisdom brings joy to his father: but he that keeps company with harlots spends his wealth.

We then who are strong ought to bear with the concerns of the weak, and not to please ourselves.Let every one of us please his neighbor for his good and edification.

But you, O God, shall bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in you.

Have you found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for you, lest you be filled therewith, and vomit it.

Now the works of the flesh are plain, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

He who stops up his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.

As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful: all things are lawful for me, but not all things build up.

But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink have left the pathway; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up by wine, they have left the pathway through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

A violent man entices his neighbor, and leads him into the way that is not good.

For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

Your word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

But I keep control of my body, and bring it into subjection: so that, when I have preached to others, I myself should not by any means be lost.

As he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding has wisdom.

For every person shall bear his own burden.

My soul melts for sorrow: strengthen me according to your word.

They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to those who drink it.

Hear, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart in the way.Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at my hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonor that magnify themselves against me.

Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouts because of wine.

And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have plenty of goods laid up for many years; take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.

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