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 the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God.

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

Be not among winebibbers, or among gluttonous eaters of meat;

Awake, you drunkards, and weep; and wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of 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 a man with rags.

Be sober, be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking some one to devour.

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

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, and will forgive 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; and he makes them stagger like a drunken man.

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.

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: fornication, impurity, licentiousness,Now I, Paul, say to you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you.idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, party spirit,envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Woe to those who rise early in the morning, that they may run after strong drink, who tarry late into the evening till wine inflames them!They have lyre and harp, timbrel and flute and wine at their feasts; but they do not regard the deeds of the Lord, or see the work of his hands.

Be not among winebibbers, or among gluttonous eaters of meat;for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe a man 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 his delicacies, for they are deceptive food.Those who tarry long over wine, those who go to try mixed wine.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.”

Let the time that is past suffice for 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 addicted to much wine, not greedy for gain;

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; and he will pour a draught from it, and all the wicked of the earth shall drain it down to the dregs.

“But take heed to yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a snare;

let us conduct ourselves becomingly as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy.But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

But rather I wrote to you not to associate with any one who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or robber—not even to eat with such a one.

Give strong drink to him 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 the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

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

Happy are you, O land, when your king is the son of free men, and your princes feast at the proper time, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

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

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of my enemies; thou anointest my head with oil, my cup overflows.

I will meditate on thy precepts, and fix my eyes on thy ways.

Turn my eyes from looking at vanities; and give me life in thy ways.

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eats and drinks with the drunken,

But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will punish him, 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 in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal, and one is hungry and another is drunk.

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

Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, 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, till I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under heaven during the few days of their life.

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

Woe to the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is on the head of the rich valley 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.”Nay, but by men of strange lips and with an alien tongue the Lord 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; 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, “Behold, I am laying in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation: ‘He who believes will not be in haste.’And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plummet; and 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.Behold, the Lord has one who is mighty and strong; like a storm of hail, a destroying tempest, like a storm of mighty, overflowing waters, he will cast down to the earth with violence.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 be wroth 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, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord God of hosts upon the whole land.Give ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.Does he who plows for sowing plow continually? does he continually open and harrow his ground?When he has leveled its surface, does he not scatter dill, sow cummin, and put in wheat in rows and barley in its proper place, and spelt as the border?For he is instructed aright; his God teaches him.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.Does one crush bread grain? No, he does not thresh it for ever; when he drives his cart wheel over it with his horses, he does not crush it.This also comes from the Lord of hosts; he is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden under foot;

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

His speech was smoother than butter, yet war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

He who keeps the law is a wise son, but a companion of gluttons shames his father.

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

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

Folly is a joy to him who has no sense, but a man of understanding walks aright.

He who loves pleasure will be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil will not be rich.

Do you not know that in a race all the runners compete, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.Well, I do not run aimlessly, I do not box as one beating the air;but I pommel my body and subdue it, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

for he will be great before the Lord, and he shall drink no wine nor strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.

A wise man is mightier than a strong man, and a man of knowledge than he who has strength;

also that it is God's gift to man that every one should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil.

Let all men know your forbearance. The Lord is at hand.

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.

Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Look to yourself, lest you too be tempted.

Cease, my son, to hear instruction only to stray from the words of knowledge.

and give no opportunity to the devil.

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

Incline not my heart to any evil, to busy myself with wicked deeds in company with men who work iniquity; and let me not eat of their dainties!

I tell you I shall not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.”

For he satisfies him who is thirsty, and the hungry he fills with good things.

I appeal to you therefore, brethren, 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 believes everything, but the prudent looks where he is going.

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

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

The Son of man has come eating and drinking; and you say, ‘Behold, 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 enter the fields of the fatherless;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 a child; if you beat him with a rod, he will not die.If you beat him with the rod you will save his life from Sheol.My son, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad.My soul will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.Let not your heart envy sinners, but continue in the fear of the Lord all the day.Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.Hear, my son, and be wise, and direct your mind in the way.and put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to appetite.Be not among winebibbers, or among gluttonous eaters of meat;for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.Hearken 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 son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways. For a harlot is a deep pit; an adventuress is a narrow well.She lies in wait like a robber and increases the faithless among men.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 his delicacies, for they are deceptive food.

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

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

But he who has doubts is condemned, if he eats, because he does not act from faith; for whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.

The wicked borrows, and cannot pay back, but the righteous is generous and gives;

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 then you would need to go out of the world.

He who loves wisdom makes his father glad, but one who keeps company with harlots squanders his substance.

We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves;and again it is said, “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his people”;and again, “Praise the Lord, all Gentiles, and let all the peoples praise him”;and further Isaiah says, “The root of Jesse shall come, he who rises to rule the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles hope.”May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.I myself am satisfied about you, my brethren, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another.But on some points I have written to you very 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 be proud of my work for God.For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has wrought through me to win obedience from the Gentiles, by word and deed,by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Holy Spirit, so that from Jerusalem and as far round as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ,let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to edify him.

But thou, O God, wilt cast them down into the lowest pit; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in thee.

If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, lest you be sated with it and vomit it.

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

He who closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself cry out and not be heard.

As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,

“All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “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.

A man of violence entices his neighbor and leads him 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 have laid up thy word in my heart, that I might not sin against thee.

but I pommel my body and subdue it, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

He clothed himself with cursing as his coat, may it soak into his body like water, like oil into his bones!

It is like sport to a fool to do wrong, but wise conduct is pleasure to a man of understanding.

For each man will have to bear his own load.

My soul melts away for sorrow; strengthen me according to thy word!

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

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

Let them be put to shame and confusion altogether who rejoice at my calamity! Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me!

Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a strong man shouting because of wine.

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

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