6 Bible Verses about Intemperance

For the time of life which is past is enough for us to have worked out the will of the nations, having gone on in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, parties, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

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

being about to receive the wages of unrighteousness, deeming indulgence as pleasure in the daytime, and reveling in spots and blemishes, feasting along with you in their deceits,

envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revelings, and things like these; of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that they who 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.

As a thorn goes up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

Woe to those mighty to drink wine, and brave men to mix strong drink;

The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trampled under foot;

Awake, drunkards, and weep; and howl, all drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

For as thorns are woven together, and as their drunkards are drunken, they shall be devoured like stubble fully dry.

And they have cast lots for My people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, so that they might drink.

But if that servant says in his heart, My lord delays his coming, and shall begin to beat the male servants and women servants, and to eat and drink and to be drunk,

For in eating each one takes his own supper first; and one is hungry, and another drunken.

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 drunk. And she did not tell him anything, more or less, until the morning light.

And when David had called him, he ate and drank before him. And he made him drunk. And at evening he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.

And they went out at noon. But Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the booths, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings who helped him.

They say, come, Let us take wine, and let us gulp strong drink; and tomorrow shall be like today, and much more abundant.

And his servant Zimri, commander of half his chariots, plotted against him; and he was in Tirzah drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza the steward of his house in Tirzah.

And he drank of the wine and was drunk. And he was uncovered inside his tent.

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 eunuchs who served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,

In the day of our king, the rulers have sickened themselves with the heat of wine. He stretches out his hand with scorners.

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes to lust for strong drink; lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.