6 Bible Verses about Intemperance
Most Relevant Verses
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the LORD which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?
And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light. But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone. And it came to pass about ten days after, that the LORD smote Nabal, that he died.
From Thematic Bible
Intemperance » Examples of » Excess, general references to
For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.
And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
Intemperance » Examples of » Drunkards, general references to
As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
Intemperance » Examples of » Other examples
And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;
For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
Intemperance » Examples of » Nabal
And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
Intemperance » Examples of » Uriah
And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house.
Intemperance » Examples of » benhadad
And they went out at noon. But Benhadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him.
Intemperance » Examples of » Watchmen of israel
Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.
Intemperance » Examples of » Elah
And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza steward of his house in Tirzah.
Intemperance » Examples of » Noah
Intemperance » Examples of » Ahasuerus
On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,
Intemperance » Examples of » Kings of israel
In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
Kings » Specially warned against » Intemperance
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink: Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
