15 Bible Verses about alcoholism
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Stop drinking nothing but water; take a little wine for the good of your digestion and for your frequent attacks of illness.
Or as it was in Lot's time; they went on eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, and building,
People went on eating, drinking, marrying, and being married up to the very day that Noah got into the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all.
Do not get drunk on wine, for that is profligacy, but be filled with the Spirit,
You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot eat at the table of the Lord and at the table of demons.
Now that the Son of Man has come, he does eat and drink, and people say, 'Look at him! A glutton and a drinker, the companion of tax-collectors and irreligious people!' And yet Wisdom is vindicated by her actions!"
Assistants, in turn, must be serious, straightforward men, not addicted to wine or dishonest gain,
For he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He will drink no wine or strong drink, but he will be filled with the holy Spirit from his very birth,
The Kingdom of God is not a matter of what we eat or drink, but of uprightness, peace, and happiness through the possession of the holy Spirit.
Now that the Son of Man has come, he does eat and drink, and you say, 'Look at him! A glutton and a drinker, the companion of tax-collectors and irreligious people!'
For just as in those days before the flood people were eating and drinking, marrying and being married, until the very day Noah entered the ark,
envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you as I did before that people who do such things will have no share in the Kingdom of God.
For anyone who eats and drinks, eats and drinks a judgment upon himself if he does not recognize the body.
The right thing to do is to eat no meat at all and to drink no wine or do anything else if it hurts your brother's conscience.
You have spent time enough in the past in doing as the heathen like to do, indulging in sensuality, passion, drunkenness, carousing, dissipation, and detestable idolatry.