6 Bible Verses about Intoxication
Most Relevant Verses
And do not be drunk with wine (in which is dissipation), but be filled by the Spirit,
To whom [is] woe? To whom [is] sorrow? To whom [are] quarrels? To whom [is] complaint? To whom [are] wounds without cause? To whom [is] redness of [the] eyes?
Wake up, drunkards, and weep! Wail, all drinkers of wine, over the new wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.
From Thematic Bible
Intoxication » Examples of » 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.
Intoxication » Examples of » Other examples
For my people they cast lots, and {they traded} the male child for the prostitute, and the female child they sold for wine and they drank [it].
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,
For [when you] eat [it], each one of you goes ahead to take his own supper, and one is hungry and another is drunk.
Intoxication » Examples of » Nabal
Then Abigail went to Nabal, and look, {he was holding a feast} in his house like the feast of the king. {Nabal was enjoying himself}, and he [was] very drunk, so she did not tell him a thing, {nothing at all}, until the light of morning.
Intoxication » Examples of » Uriah
David invited him, and he ate and drank in his presence {so that he became drunk}, and he went out in the evening to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.
Intoxication » Examples of » benhadad
They went out at noon while Ben-Hadad [was] drinking [himself] drunk in the tents, he and the thirty-two kings helping him.
Intoxication » Examples of » Watchmen of israel
"Come, let me take wine, and let us carouse [with] intoxicating drink, and tomorrow will be like today, {very great indeed}."
Intoxication » Examples of » Elah
His servant Zimri the commander of half of the chariots conspired against him. Now he had been in Tirzah drinking [himself] drunk in the house of Arza who was over the palace in Tirzah.
Intoxication » Examples of » Noah
And he drank some of the wine and became drunk, and he exposed himself in the midst of his tent.
Intoxication » Examples of » Ahasuerus
On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he said to Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, seven of the eunuchs attending King Ahasuerus,
Intoxication » Examples of » Kings of israel
[On] the day of our king, the princes became sick [with] the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with mockers.