35 Bible Verses about drunkards
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nor thieves, nor greedy persons, not drunkards, not abusive persons, not swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
For the drunkard and gluttonous, they will become poor, and [with] rags, drowsiness will clothe them
Wake up, drunkards, and weep! Wail, all drinkers of wine, over the new wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.
They reeled and staggered like a drunkard, and {they were at their wits' end}.
For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night.
and he begins to beat his fellow slaves and eats and drinks with drunkards,
envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, [things] which I am telling you [in advance], just as I said before, that the ones who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Behold, a man [who is] a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' But wisdom is vindicated by her deeds."
For like entangled thorns, and like their drink which is drunk, they will be consumed like fully dry chaff.
Ah! The garland of the pride of the drunkards of Ephraim and [the] withering flower of the glory of his beauty, which [is] at [the] head of {the rich valley}, {ones overcome} with wine!
The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, 'Behold, a man [who is] a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!'
And do not be drunk with wine (in which is dissipation), but be filled by the Spirit,
But now I have written to you not to associate with any so-called brother, if he is a sexually immoral person or a greedy person or an idolater or an abusive person or a drunkard or a swindler--with such a person not even to eat.
And he drank some of the wine and became drunk, and he exposed himself in the midst of his tent.
and they shall say to the elders of his city, 'This our son [is] stubborn and rebellious; {he does not obey us}, [and] he is a glutton and a drunkard.'
Be astonished and be amazed! Blind yourselves and be blinded! They are drunk but not [from] wine; they stagger but not [from] strong drink.
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Neither sexually immoral people, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor passive homosexual partners, nor dominant homosexual partners,
Then you shall say to them, 'Thus says Yahweh: "Look, I [am] about to fill all the inhabitants of this land, and the kings who sit on David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem [with] drunkenness.
[The] earth staggers to and fro like the drunkard, and it sways like hut, and its transgression is heavy upon it, and it falls and does not rise again.
Yahweh has mixed a spirit of confusion into her midst, and they have caused Egypt to stagger in all of its doings, as {when a drunkard staggers} in his vomit.
For these [men] are not drunk, as you assume, because it is the third hour of the day.
Ah! Those who rise early in the morning, they pursue strong drink. Those who linger in the evening, wine inflames them.
"Come, let me take wine, and let us carouse [with] intoxicating drink, and tomorrow will be like today, {very great indeed}."
Then Eli said to her, "How long will you behave like someone [who is] drunk? Put away your wine!"
Woe to [him who] gives a drink to his neighbors, pouring out your wrath and also making [them] drunk in order to see their nakedness!
[Like] a thorn that goes up in the hand of a drunkard, so [is] a proverb in the mouth of fools.
They grope [in] the dark {without} light, and he makes them stagger like a drunkard.
Now Hannah had been speaking in her heart; her lips [were] moving, but her voice could not be heard, so Eli considered her [to be] drunk.
For the time that has passed [was] sufficient {to do what the Gentiles desire to do}, having lived in licentiousness, [evil] desires, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties, and wanton idolatries,
"They struck me; I was not hurt. They beat me; I did not know [it]. When I will awake, I will continue; I will seek it again."
But if that slave should say {to himself}, 'My master is taking a long time to return,' and he begins to beat the male slaves and the female slaves and to eat and drink and get drunk,
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Drunkards » Drunkards, general references to
[Like] a thorn that goes up in the hand of a drunkard, so [is] a proverb in the mouth of fools.
The garland of the pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trampled by feet,
Wake up, drunkards, and weep! Wail, all drinkers of wine, over the new wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.
For like entangled thorns, and like their drink which is drunk, they will be consumed like fully dry chaff.