12 Bible Verses about Alcohol Abuse

Wine is a mocker! Strong drink leads to brawls. He who is intoxicated by it is not wise.

Lot was afraid to stay in Zoar. So he and his two daughters moved up into the hills and lived in a cave. The older daughter said to her sister: Our father is getting old. There are no men in the whole world to marry us so we can have children. Come, let us get our father drunk. Then we can sleep with him and have children by him.read more.
That night they gave him wine to drink. The older daughter had intercourse with him. But he was so drunk that he did not know it. The next day the older daughter said to her sister: I slept with him last night. Let us get him drunk again tonight, and you sleep with him. Then each of us will have a child by our father. So that night they got him drunk. The younger daughter had intercourse with him. Again he was so drunk that he did not know it.

Woe to the proud drunks who wear the crown of Ephraim for it is doomed! Its glory is fading like the crowns of flowers on their heads. They are at the entrance of a fertile valley. They are drunk from wine. Behold, Jehovah has a strong and mighty one (Assyria). He will cast down to the earth with military power. It will be like a destructive thunderstorm with hail and a mighty flood of water. The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under foot.

Let us walk honestly as in the daytime, not in rioting and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and loose conduct, not in strife and jealousy.

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither fornicators, nor people who worship idols, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor covetous (greedy), nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortionists, will inherit the kingdom of God.

Do not get drunk with wine, for that is a public act of violence, but be filled with the Spirit.

nor thieves, nor covetous (greedy), nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortionists, will inherit the kingdom of God.

These also stagger from wine and reel from beer. Priests and prophets stagger from beer and are befuddled with wine. They reel from beer. They stagger when seeing visions. They stumble when rendering decisions. The tables are covered with vomit and there is no spot without filth.

You are doomed! Heroes of the wine bottle! Brave and fearless when it comes to mixing drinks!

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has discord? Who has complaints? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? Those who stay long at the wine. They seek mixed wine. Do not look on the wine when it is red, when it shines in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.read more.
In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like a viper. Your eyes will see strange things and your heart (and mind) will utter perverse things. You will be like one who lies down in the middle of the sea; like one who lies on top of a mast. They struck me but I did not become sick. They beat me and I did not feel it. When will I awake? I will seek drink yet again.

How horrible it will be for those who get up early in the morning to look for a drink and who sit up late at night until they are drunk from wine.

Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion walks about, seeking whom he may devour (consume).