40 Bible Verses about alcoholism

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:

Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

Come you, they say, I will bring wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.

Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.

And he drank of the wine, and was drunk; and he was uncovered within his tent.

Therefore you shall say unto them, Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink, and be drunken, and vomit, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.

Drink no longer water only, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake and your frequent illnesses.

And you shall bestow that money for whatsoever your soul desires, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever your soul desires: and you shall eat there before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice, you, and your household,

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

Be not among winebibbers; among gluttonous eaters of meat:

Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflames them!

Go your way, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God now accepts your works.

They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD.

And when you did eat, and when you did drink, did not you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

Now therefore beware, I pray you, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:

Woe unto him that gives his neighbor drink, that presses your wineskin to him, and makes him drunk also, that you may look on his nakedness!

Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mix strong drink:

Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;

They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

And be not drunk with wine, in which is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

You cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: you cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of demons.

He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.

Do not drink wine nor strong drink, you, nor your sons with you, when you go into the tabernacle of meeting, lest you die: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations:

The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.

At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.

Likewise must the deacons be grave, not double tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of dishonest gain;

And Eli said unto her, How long will you be drunk? put away your wine from you.

But he said unto me, Behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death.

For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.

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

The Son of man has come eating and drinking; and you say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!

For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark,

Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like: of which I tell you beforehand, as I have also told you in time past, that they who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

For he that eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.

It is good neither to eat meat, nor to drink wine, nor anything by which your brother stumbles, or is offended, or is made weak.

Look not you upon the wine when it is red, when it gives its color in the cup, when it moves itself aright.

Who has woe? who has sorrow? who has contentions? who has babbling? who has wounds without cause? who has redness of eyes?

For the time past of our life will suffice us to have done the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in licentiousness, lusts, excess of wine, reveling, carousing, and abominable idolatries: