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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.
thieves, the greedy, drunkards, revilers, swindlers—none of these will inherit the kingdom of God.
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.
thieves, the greedy, drunkards, revilers, swindlers—none of these will inherit the kingdom of God.Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, men who engage in illicit sex,
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.
Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine or for rulers to desire strong drink,
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: sexual immorality, impurity, debauchery,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.
Woe to those 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?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 debauchery, 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, 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; 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 does not catch you unexpectedly,
let us walk decently as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in illicit sex 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 an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler. 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.
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!
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.
But if that slave says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and 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 proceeds to eat your own supper, and one goes hungry and another becomes drunk.
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.
Woe to the proud garland of the drunkards of Ephraim and the fading flower of its glorious beauty, at the head of the fertile valley, those overcome with wine!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 force he will hurl them down to the earth.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 age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind, 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.
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.
Put to death, therefore, whatever in you is earthly: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry).
My brothers and sisters, 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.
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.”
I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, on the basis of God’s mercy, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your reasonable act of worship.
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 an official, observe carefully what is before you, and put a knife to your throat if you have a big appetite.Do not desire an official’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.
not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since you would then need to go out of the world.
A child who loves wisdom makes a parent glad, but a companion of prostitutes destroys wealth.
We who are strong ought to put up with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves.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, lest, having too much, you vomit it up.
Like obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires that you formerly had in ignorance.
“All things are permitted,” but not all things are beneficial. “All things are permitted,” 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.
To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
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.
Hear, my child, and be wise, and direct your mind in the way.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.
And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.’