31 Bible Verses about Alcoholic Beverages

And wine -- it rejoiceth the heart of man, To cause the face to shine from oil, And bread -- the heart of man it supporteth.

He drinketh, and forgetteth his poverty, And his misery he remembereth not again.

Give strong drink to the perishing, And wine to the bitter in soul,

and thou hast given the money for any thing which thy soul desireth, for oxen, and for sheep, and for wine, and for strong drink, and for any thing which thy soul asketh, and thou hast eaten there before Jehovah thy God, and thou hast rejoiced, thou and thy house.

Go, eat with joy thy bread, and drink with a glad heart thy wine, for already hath God been pleased with thy works.

no longer be drinking water, but a little wine be using, because of thy stomach and of thine often infirmities;

from wine and strong drink he doth keep separate; vinegar of wine, and vinegar of strong drink he doth not drink, and any juice of grapes he doth not drink, and grapes moist or dry he doth not eat;

And, now, take heed, I pray thee, and do not drink wine, and strong drink, and do not eat any unclean thing,

Not for kings, O Lemuel, Not for kings, to drink wine, And for princes a desire of strong drink.

Woe to the mighty to drink wine, And men of strength to mingle strong drink.

Wine and strong drink thou dost not drink, thou, and thy sons with thee, in your going in unto the tent of meeting, and ye die not -- a statute age-during to your generations;

Wine is a scorner -- strong drink is noisy, And any going astray in it is not wise.

Ye are not able the cup of the Lord to drink, and the cup of demons; ye are not able of the table of the Lord to partake, and of the table of demons;

for he shall be great before the Lord, and wine and strong drink he may not drink, and of the Holy Spirit he shall be full, even from his mother's womb;

And they say, 'We do not drink wine: for Jonadab son of Rechab, our father, charged us, saying, Ye do not drink wine, ye and your sons -- unto the age;

Woe to him who is giving drink to his neighbour, Pouring out thy bottle, and also making drunk, In order to look on their nakedness.

With a song they drink not wine, Bitter is strong drink to those drinking it.

and its libation, a fourth of the hin for the one lamb; in the sanctuary cause thou a libation of strong drink to be poured out to Jehovah.

and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,

and he saith to me, Lo, thou art pregnant, and bearing a son, and now do not drink wine and strong drink, and do not eat any unclean thing, for a Nazarite to God is the youth from the womb till the day of his death.'

and drinketh of the wine, and is drunken, and uncovereth himself in the midst of the tent.

And no priest doth drink wine in their coming in unto the inner court.

why, have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or the assembly of God do ye despise, and shame those not having? what may I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I do not praise!

If, then, ye did die with the Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances? -- thou mayest not touch, nor taste, nor handle --

and I say to you, that I may not drink henceforth on this produce of the vine, till that day when I may drink it with you new in the reign of my Father.'

And they cause their father to drink wine on that night; and the first-born goeth in, and lieth with her father, and he hath not known in her lying down, or in her rising up.

bread ye have not eaten, and wine and strong drink ye have not drunk, so that ye know that I am Jehovah your God.

And he saith to them, 'Go, eat fat things, and drink sweet things, and sent portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for to-day is holy to our Lord, and be not grieved, for the joy of Jehovah is your strength.'

they gave him to drink vinegar mixed with gall, and having tasted, he would not drink.

of anything which cometh out from the wine-vine she doth not eat, and wine and strong drink she doth not drink, and any unclean thing she doth not eat; all that I have commanded her she doth observe.'

For thus said Jehovah: They whose judgment is not to drink of the cup, Do certainly drink, And thou art he that is entirely acquitted! Thou art not acquitted, for thou certainly drinkest.