15 Bible Verses about alcoholism
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Discontinue the drinking of bare water, take a litle wine out of regard to your weak stomach, and your frequent indispositions.
and as it was in the days of Lot, they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building:
eating and drinking, marriages and matches was the business till the very day that Noah entred into the ark, when the flood came and overwhelm'd them all.
do not drink to excess, for that tends to dissoluteness, but be regal'd with spiritual entertainments:
you should not drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: you should not be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of demons.
the son of man does not abstain from eating and drinking, and they cry there's a glutton, and a sot, a friend of publicans and sinners: "but wisdom is justified by her children."
The deacons too must be grave, not double tongued, not addicted to drinking, or sordid gain,
he shall appear as a divine messenger. he shall drink neither wine, nor any other strong liquor: he shall be filled with the holy spirit, even from his infancy:
for the gospel dispensation does not consist in meats and drinks, but in piety and peace, and spiritual joy.
the son of man appears indifferent to any kind of meat or drink: yet you say, he is a glutton and a tipler, a friend of publicans and loose people.
for as at the time that usher'd in the deluge, they were eating and drinking, marrying themselves and their children, till the day that Noe entred into the ark,
drunkenness, revellings, and such like, concerning which I forewarn you now, as heretofore I have done, that they who practise such vices, shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
for he that eats and drinks in a disrespectful manner, not discriminating the Lord's body, eateth and drinketh to his own punishment.
it is better to abstain from flesh, and wine, and every thing whereby your brother is in danger of falling off.
for the time past of your lives may suffice, to have liv'd in conformity to the Gentile customs, in impurity, licentiousness, sottishness, in dissolute festivals, and the criminal rites of idolaters.