40 Bible Verses about alcoholism

Not for kings, O Lemuel, Not for kings, to drink wine, And for princes a desire of strong drink.

He drinketh, and forgetteth his poverty, And his misery he remembereth not again.

Come ye, I take wine, And we drink, quaff strong drink, And as this day hath been to-morrow, Great -- exceeding abundant!'

Give strong drink to the perishing, And wine to the bitter in soul,

and drinketh of the wine, and is drunken, and uncovereth himself in the midst of the tent.

And thou hast said unto them: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts God of Israel, Drink ye, yea drink abundantly, And vomit, and fall, and rise not, Because of the sword that I am sending among you.

no longer be drinking water, but a little wine be using, because of thy stomach and of thine often infirmities;

and thou hast given the money for any thing which thy soul desireth, for oxen, and for sheep, and for wine, and for strong drink, and for any thing which thy soul asketh, and thou hast eaten there before Jehovah thy God, and thou hast rejoiced, thou and thy house.

For the quaffer and glutton become poor, And drowsiness clotheth with rags.

Wine is a scorner -- strong drink is noisy, And any going astray in it is not wise.

Be not thou among quaffers of wine, Among gluttonous ones of flesh,

Woe to those rising early in the morning, Strong drink they pursue! Tarrying in twilight, wine inflameth them!

Go, eat with joy thy bread, and drink with a glad heart thy wine, for already hath God been pleased with thy works.

With a song they drink not wine, Bitter is strong drink to those drinking it.

And Hannah answereth and saith, 'No, my lord, A woman sharply pained in spirit I am, and wine and strong drink I have not drunk, and I pour out my soul before Jehovah;

When ye fasted with mourning in the fifth and in the seventh months -- even these seventy years -- did ye keep the fast to Me -- Me? And when ye eat, and when ye drink, is it not ye who are eating, and ye who are drinking?

And, now, take heed, I pray thee, and do not drink wine, and strong drink, and do not eat any unclean thing,

Woe to him who is giving drink to his neighbour, Pouring out thy bottle, and also making drunk, In order to look on their nakedness.

Woe to the mighty to drink wine, And men of strength to mingle strong drink.

in like manner also, as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building;

they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were given in marriage, till the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the deluge came, and destroyed all;

and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,

Ye are not able the cup of the Lord to drink, and the cup of demons; ye are not able of the table of the Lord to partake, and of the table of demons;

from wine and strong drink he doth keep separate; vinegar of wine, and vinegar of strong drink he doth not drink, and any juice of grapes he doth not drink, and grapes moist or dry he doth not eat;

Wine and strong drink thou dost not drink, thou, and thy sons with thee, in your going in unto the tent of meeting, and ye die not -- a statute age-during to your generations;

the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, Lo, a man, a glutton, and a wine-drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners, and wisdom was justified of her children.'

Its latter end -- as a serpent it biteth, And as a basilisk it stingeth.

Ministrants -- in like manner grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not given to filthy lucre,

And Eli saith unto her, 'Until when are thou drunken? turn aside thy wine from thee.'

and he saith to me, Lo, thou art pregnant, and bearing a son, and now do not drink wine and strong drink, and do not eat any unclean thing, for a Nazarite to God is the youth from the womb till the day of his death.'

for he shall be great before the Lord, and wine and strong drink he may not drink, and of the Holy Spirit he shall be full, even from his mother's womb;

for the reign of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit;

the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and ye say, Lo, a man, a glutton, and a wine drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners;

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

envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.

for he who is eating and drinking unworthily, judgment to himself he doth eat and drink -- not discerning the body of the Lord.

Right it is not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything in which thy brother doth stumble, or is made to fall, or is weak.

See not wine when it showeth itself red, When it giveth in the cup its colour, It goeth up and down through the upright.

Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? who hath plaint? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?

for sufficient to us is the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revellings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries,