40 Bible Verses about alcoholism

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to take wine, or for rulers to say, Where is strong drink?

Let him have drink, and his need will go from his mind, and the memory of his trouble will be gone.

Come, they say, I will get wine, and we will take strong drink in full measure; and tomorrow will be like today, full of pleasure.

Give strong drink to him who is near to destruction, and wine to him whose soul is bitter:

And he took of the wine of it and was overcome by drink; and he was uncovered in his tent.

And you are to say to them, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Take of this cup and be overcome, and let it come out again from your lips, and from your fall you will never be lifted up again, because of the sword which I will send among you.

Do not take only water as your drink, but take a little wine for the good of your stomach, and because you are frequently ill.

And with the money get whatever you have a desire for, oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your soul's desire may be: and make a feast there before the Lord your God, and be glad, you and all your house;

For those who take delight in drink and feasting will come to be in need; and through love of sleep a man will be poorly clothed

Wine makes men foolish, and strong drink makes men come to blows; and whoever comes into error through these is not wise.

Do not be among those who give themselves to wine-drinking, or among those who make themselves full with meat:

Cursed are those who get up early in the morning to give themselves up to strong drink; who keep on drinking far into the night till they are heated with wine!

Come, take your bread with joy, and your wine with a glad heart. God has taken pleasure in your works.

There is no more drinking of wine with a song; strong drink will be bitter to those who take it.

And Hannah, answering him, said, No, my lord, I am a woman whose spirit is broken with sorrow: I have not taken wine or strong drink, but I have been opening my heart before the Lord.

And when you are feasting and drinking, are you not doing it only for yourselves?

Now then take care to have no wine or strong drink and to take no unclean thing for food;

A curse on him who gives his neighbour the wine of his wrath, making him overcome with strong drink from the cup of his passion, so that you may be a witness of their shame!

Cursed are those who are strong to take wine, and great in making mixed drinks!

In the same way, in the days of Lot; they were feasting and trading, they were planting and building;

They were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day of the overflowing of the waters, when Noah went into the ark, and they all came to destruction.

And do not take overmuch wine by which one may be overcome, but be full of the Spirit;

It is not possible for you, at the same time, to take the cup of the Lord and the cup of evil spirits; you may not take part in the table of the Lord and the table of evil spirits.

He is to keep himself from wine and strong drink, and take no mixed wine or strong drink or any drink made from grapes, or any grapes, green or dry.

Take no wine, or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the Tent of meeting, that it may not be the cause of death to you; this is an order for ever through all your generations.

The Son of man has come feasting, and they say, See, a lover of food and wine, a friend of tax-farmers and sinners! And wisdom is judged to be right by her works.

In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake.

Deacons, in the same way, are to be serious in their behaviour, not false in word, not given to taking much wine or greatly desiring the wealth of this world;

And Eli said to her, How long are you going to be the worse for drink? Put away the effects of your wine from you.

But he said to me, You are with child and will give birth to a son; and now do not take any wine or strong drink or let anything unclean be your food; for the child will be separate to God from his birth to the day of his death.

For he will be great in the eyes of the Lord; he will not take wine or strong drink; and he will be full of the Spirit of God from his birth.

For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

The Son of man came feasting, and you say, Here is a lover of food and wine, a friend of tax-farmers and sinners.

Because as in those days before the overflowing of the waters, they were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day when Noah went into the ark,

Envy, uncontrolled drinking and feasting, and such things: of which I give you word clearly, even as I did in the past, that they who do such things will have no part in the kingdom of God.

For a man puts himself in danger, if he takes part in the holy meal without being conscious that it is the Lord's body.

It is better not to take meat or wine or to do anything which might be a cause of trouble to your brother.

Keep your eyes from looking on the wine when it is red, when its colour is bright in the cup, when it goes smoothly down:

Who says, Oh! who says, Ah! who has violent arguments, who has grief, who has wounds without cause, whose eyes are dark?

Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images;