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.

thieves, the greedy, drunkards, revilers, robbers—none of these will inherit the kingdom of God.

Do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit,

Do not be among winebibbers, or among gluttonous eaters of meat;

Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; and wail, all you wine-drinkers, over the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.

for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them with rags.

Discipline yourselves, keep alert. Like a roaring lion your adversary the devil prowls around, looking for someone to devour.

it is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that makes your brother or sister stumble.

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

So if the Son makes 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; he makes them stagger like a drunkard.

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

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

So Eli said to her, “How long will you make a drunken spectacle of yourself? Put away your wine.”

Now the works of the flesh are obvious: fornication, impurity, licentiousness,Listen! I, Paul, am telling you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you.idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, anger, quarrels, dissensions, factions,envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. I am warning you, as I warned you before: those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Ah, you who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger in the evening to be inflamed by wine,whose feasts consist of lyre and harp, tambourine and flute and wine, but who do not regard the deeds of the Lord, or see the work of his hands!

Do not be among winebibbers, or among gluttonous eaters of meat;for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness 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 the ruler's delicacies, for they are deceptive food.Those who linger late over wine, those who keep trying mixed wines.Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind 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 will seek another drink.”

You have already spent enough time in doing what the Gentiles like to do, living in licentiousness, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry.

Deacons likewise must be serious, not double-tongued, not indulging in much wine, not greedy for money;

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

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

“Be on guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life, and that day catch you unexpectedly,

let us live honorably as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy.Instead, 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 or sister who is sexually immoral or greedy, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or robber. Do not even eat with such a one.

Give strong drink to 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, carousing, and things like these. I am warning you, as I warned you before: those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

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

Happy are you, O land, when your king is a nobleman, and your princes feast at the proper time— for strength, and not for drunkenness!

they reeled and staggered like drunkards, and were at their wits' end.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise child makes a glad father, but a foolish child is a mother's grief.

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 vanities; give me life in your ways.

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but those who hate to be rebuked are stupid.

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

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

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

For when the time comes to eat, each of you goes ahead with your own supper, and one goes hungry and another becomes drunk.

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

Do not put your trust in princes, in mortals, in whom there is no help.

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

Beloved, I urge you as aliens and exiles to abstain from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul.

Ah, the proud garland of the drunkards of Ephraim, and the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is on the head of those bloated with rich food, 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.” Truly, with stammering lip and with alien tongue he 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.Therefore 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;” in order 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 scourge 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, See, I am laying in Zion a foundation stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation: “One who trusts will not panic.”And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plummet; 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.See, the Lord has one who is mighty and strong; like a storm of hail, a destroying tempest, like a storm of mighty, overflowing waters; with his hand he will hurl them down to the earth.For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on it, and the covering too narrow to wrap oneself in it.For the Lord will rise up as on Mount Perazim, he will rage as in the valley of Gibeon; to do his deed—strange is his deed! and to work his work—alien is his work!Now therefore do not scoff, or your bonds will be made stronger; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord God of hosts upon the whole land.Listen, and hear my voice; Pay attention, and hear my speech.Do those who plow for sowing plow continually? Do they continually open and harrow their ground?When they have leveled its surface, do they not scatter dill, sow cummin, and plant wheat in rows and barley in its proper place, and spelt as the border?For they are well instructed; their God teaches them.Dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge, nor is a cart wheel rolled over cummin; but dill is beaten out with a stick, and cummin with a rod.Grain is crushed for bread, but one does not thresh it forever; one drives the cart wheel and horses over it, but does not pulverize it.This also comes from the Lord of hosts; he is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.Trampled under foot will be the proud garland of the drunkards of Ephraim.

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.

with speech smoother than butter, but with a heart set on war; with words that were softer than oil, but in fact were drawn swords.

Those who keep the law are wise children, but companions of gluttons shame their parents.

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God—what is good and acceptable and perfect.

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

Folly is a joy to one who has no sense, but a person of understanding walks straight ahead.

Whoever loves pleasure will suffer want; whoever loves wine and oil will not be rich.

Do you not know that in a race the runners all compete, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win it.Athletes exercise self-control in all things; they do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable one.So I do not run aimlessly, nor do I box as though beating the air;but I punish my body and enslave it, so that after proclaiming to others I myself should not be disqualified.

for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He must never drink wine or strong drink; even before his birth he will be filled with the Holy Spirit.

Wise warriors are mightier than strong ones, and those who have knowledge than those who have strength;

moreover, it is God's gift that all should eat and drink and take pleasure in all their toil.

Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near.

Put to death, therefore, whatever in you is earthly: fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry).

Fools think their own way is right, but the wise listen to advice.

My friends, if anyone is detected in a transgression, you who have received the Spirit should restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness. Take care that you yourselves are not tempted.

Cease straying, my child, from the words of knowledge, in order that you may hear instruction.

and do not make room for the devil.

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and one whose temper is controlled than one who captures a city.

Do not turn my heart to any evil, to busy myself with wicked deeds in company with those who work iniquity; do not let me eat of their delicacies.

I tell you, I will never again drink 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 thirsty, and the hungry he fills with good things.

I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, 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 believe everything, but the clever consider their steps.

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

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

the Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look, 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 remove an ancient landmark or encroach on the fields of orphans,for their redeemer is strong; he will plead their cause against you.Apply your mind to instruction and your ear to words of knowledge.Do not withhold discipline from your children; if you beat them with a rod, they will not die.If you beat them with the rod, you will save their lives from Sheol.My child, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad.My soul will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always continue in the fear of the Lord.Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.Hear, my child, and be wise, and direct your mind in the way.and put a knife to your throat if you have a big appetite.Do not be among winebibbers, or among gluttonous eaters of meat;for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them with rags.Listen to your father who begot you, 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 begets a wise son will be glad in him.Let your father and mother be glad; let her who bore you rejoice.My child, 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 number of the faithless.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 the ruler's delicacies, for they are deceptive food.

For what the flesh desires is opposed to the Spirit, and what the Spirit desires is opposed to the flesh; for these are opposed to each other, to prevent you from doing what you want.

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

But those who have doubts are condemned if they eat, because they do not act from faith; for whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.

The wicked borrow, and do not pay back, but the righteous are generous and keep giving;

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

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

A child who loves wisdom makes a parent glad, but to keep company with prostitutes is to squander one's substance.

We who are strong ought to put up with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves.and again he says, “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his people”;and again, “Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, and let all the peoples praise him”;and again Isaiah says, “The root of Jesse shall come, the one who rises to rule the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles shall hope.”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.I myself feel confident about you, my brothers and sisters, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another.Nevertheless on some points I have written to you rather 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 boast of my work for God.For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to win obedience from the Gentiles, by word and deed,by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem and as far around as Illyricum I have fully proclaimed the good news of Christ.Each of us must please our neighbor for the good purpose of building up the neighbor.

But you, O God, will cast them down into the lowest pit; the bloodthirsty and treacherous shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.

If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, or else, having too much, you will vomit it.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious: fornication, impurity, licentiousness,

If you close your ear to the cry of the poor, you will cry out and not be heard.

Like obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires that you formerly had in ignorance.

“All things are lawful,” but not all things are beneficial. “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 confused with wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in giving judgment.

The violent entice their neighbors, and lead them in a way that is not good.

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

I treasure your word in my heart, so that I may not sin against you.

but I punish my body and enslave it, so that after proclaiming to others I myself should not 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 sport to a fool, but wise conduct is pleasure to a person of understanding.

For all must carry their own loads.

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

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

Hear, my child, and be wise, and direct your mind in the way.and put a knife to your throat if you have a big appetite.Do not be among winebibbers, or among gluttonous eaters of meat;for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them with rags.

Let all those who rejoice at my calamity be put to shame and confusion; let those who exalt themselves against me be clothed with shame and dishonor.

Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a warrior 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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