102 Bible Verses about Alcohol

Wine is mocking, strong drink is noisy: and every one going astray by it will not be wise.

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

Good not to eat flesh, nor drink wine, nor in what thy brother stumbles, or is offended, or is weak.

From wine and strong drink he shall be separated; vinegar of wine and vinegar of strong drink he shall not drip and the steeping of grapes he shall not drink, and grapes fresh and dry, he shall not eat

Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach and thy frequent weaknesses.

Wine and strong drink thou shalt not drink, thou and thy sons with thee, in your going in to the tent of appointment; and ye shall not die: a law forever to your generations.

Fornication and wine and new wine will take away the heart.

Wo to the strong to drink wine, and men of strength to mix strong drink:

And give the silver for all which thy soul shall desire, in cattle and in sheep, and in wine, and in strong drink, and in all thy soul shall ask thee: and eat there before Jehovah thy God, and rejoice, thou, and thine house.

Wo to those rising early in the morning, they will follow strong drink; remaining in the evening, wine will inflame them.

And these also went astray by wine, and by strong drink they erred; the priest and the prophet went astray by strong drink, they were swallowed up from wine, they erred from strong drink, they went astray in seeing, they wavered in judgment.

Envyings, slaughters, drunkenness, revelries, and the like: to these which I foretell you, as I have also said before, that they doing such shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

To whom wo? to whom want? to whom strife? to whom complaint? to whom wounds gratuitously? to whom dark fleshings of the eyes? To those remaining at the wine; to those going to seek mixed wine. Thou shalt not look upon wine when it shall be red, when it shall give its eye in the cup, it will go about in uprightnesses.read more.
Its latter state it will bite as serpent, and sting as a viper. Thine eyes shall see strange women, and thy heart shall speak perverseness. And thou wert as he lying down in the heart of the sea, and as he lying down upon the head of the mast They struck me, I was not pained; they beat me, I knew not: when shall I awake? I will add, I will yet seek it.

Causing grass to spring up for the cattle, and the green herb for the service of man, to bring forth bread from the earth: And wine will gladden the heart of man, to cause the face to shine from oil, and bread will support the heart of man.

For he shall be great before the Lord, and wine and fermented liquor he should not drink; and with the Holy Spirit shall he be filled, even from his mother's womb.

Thy silver was for dross, thy wine adulterated with water.

For a cup in the hand of Jehovah, and the wine red, being full of mixed wine; and he will pour out from this: but its lees all the unjust of the earth shall suck out, they shall drink.

Awake, ye intoxicated, and weep; and wail, all ye drinking wine, on account of the new wine, for it was cut off from your mouth.

Jehovah of armies will make to all peoples in this mountain a drinking of fatness, a drinking of lees of wine, fatness of marrows, strained lees of wine.

And God will give to thee from the dew of the heavens, and from the fatness of the earth, and a multiude of corn and new wine.

And he will drink of the wine and he will be intoxicated, and will be uncovered within his tent

And now, watch now, and drink not wine and strong drink, and thou shalt not eat any thing unclean:

To whom wo? to whom want? to whom strife? to whom complaint? to whom wounds gratuitously? to whom dark fleshings of the eyes? To those remaining at the wine; to those going to seek mixed wine.

And the third day was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there: And Jesus was also called, and his disciples, to the wedding. And wine having failed, the mother of Jesus says to him, They have no wine.read more.
And Jesus says to her, What to me and thee, woman mine hour comes not yet. His mother says to the servants, Whatever he says to you, do. And six stone water-buckets were placed there, according to the purification of the Jews, containing each two or three measures. Jesus says to them, Fill the water-buckets with water. And they filled them even up over. And he says to them, Draw now, and carry to the superintendent of the feast. And they carried. And when the superintendent of the feast tasted the wine having been water, and knew not whence it is: (and the servants knew, having drawn the water;) the superintendent calls the bridegroom, And says to him, Every man sets good wine first; and when they be intoxicated, then inferior: thou hast kept the good wine till now. This beginning of signs did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested his glory; and his disciples believed on him.

Not for kings, O Lemuel, not for kings to drink and for princes the desire of strong drink: Lest he shall drink and forget what is prescribed, and change the judgment of all the sons of affliction.

And wine will gladden the heart of man, to cause the face to shine from oil, and bread will support the heart of man.

Wo! to him giving his neighbor drink, pouring out thy leathern bottle, and also to be drunken so as to look upon their nakedness.

As in the day, let us walk becomingly; not in revelries and drunkenness, not in coition and licentiousness, not in strife and envy.

For a bishop must be irreproachable, as steward of God; not self-sufficient, not prone to anger, not intemperate, not a striker, not occupied in sordid gain.

And others mocking. said, That they are filled with new wine.

And Melchise-dek, king of Salem, bringing forth bread and wine: and he is priest of the most high God.

Thou shalt not be with those drinking wine to excess, and with squanderers of flesh to them: For the drunkard and the squanderer shall be dispossessed: and slumber shall clothe with rags.

Curdled milk of the cow, and milk of the sheep, With the fat of lambs, And rams, sons of Bashan, and he goats, With the fat of kidneys of wheat; Thou shalt drink wine, the blood of the grape.

For the drunkard and the squanderer shall be dispossessed: and slumber shall clothe with rags.

Wo to those rising early in the morning, they will follow strong drink; remaining in the evening, wine will inflame them. And there was the harp and the lyre, the drum and the pipe, and the wine of their drinking's: but the work of Jehovah they will not look at, and the work of his hands they saw not

O to the crown of pride, wo to the hirelings of Ephraim! a flower falling away is the glory of his beauty which is upon the head of the valley of fatness of those smitten with wine.

A man of poverty loving joy: he loving wine and oil shall not be rich.

The aged women likewise, becoming holy in a serene state of mind, not accusers, not slaves to much wine, teachers of good;

Neither do they cast new wine into old wineskins: but if otherwise, the wine-skins burst, and the wine is poured out, and the wine-skins are destroyed; but they cast new wine into new wine-skins, and they are both preserved.

Nor thieves; nor covetous, nor intoxicated, nor railers, nor rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

And the vine will say to them, Left I my new wine-making, rejoicing God and men, and went I to wander about over the trees?

Whether therefore ye eat, whether ye drink, or what ye do, do ye all things to the glory of God.

Wine and strong drink thou shalt not drink, thou and thy sons with thee, in your going in to the tent of appointment; and ye shall not die: a law forever to your generations. And to separate between the holy and between the unholy, and between the unclean and between the clean: And to teach the sons of Israel all the laws which Jehovah spake to them by the hand of Moses.

And they said to the old men of of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he heard not to our voice; he is vile, and drinking to excess.

And Eli will say to her, How long wilt thou be intoxicated? remove thy wine from thee. And Hannah will answer and say, No, my lord, I a woman hard of spirit, and wine and strong drink I drank not, and I will pour out my soul before Jehovah.

Thou shalt not look upon wine when it shall be red, when it shall give its eye in the cup, it will go about in uprightnesses.

Ye shall give strong drink to him perishing, and wine to the bitter of soul He shall drink and forget his poverty, and shall no more remember his toil.

I examined in my heart to draw my flesh with wine, and my heart led in wisdom; and to lay hold upon folly till that I shall see what this good to the sons of man which they will do under the heavens the number of the days of their life.

Happy thou, O land: thy king the son of nobles, and thy chiefs shall eat in time, in strength and not in drinking.

They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to those drinking it

And the works of the flesh are manifest, which are; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness, Idolatry, charm, enmities, strifes, jealousies, wraths, intriguings, seditions, sects Envyings, slaughters, drunkenness, revelries, and the like: to these which I foretell you, as I have also said before, that they doing such shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

And thy storehouses shall be filled with abundance, and thy wine-vats shall break forth with new wine.

And he loved thee and blessed thee, and multiplied thee: and he blest the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy grain and thy new wine and thy new oil, and the young of thy cows and thy flocks of sheep, upon the land which he sware to thy fathers to give to thee.

And attend to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be loaded with dizziness, caused by excess, and drunkenness, and cares of life, and that day come upon you unexpectedly.

The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man a glutton, and wine drinker, a friend of publicans and sinful; and wisdom has been justified from her children.

Not for kings, O Lemuel, not for kings to drink and for princes the desire of strong drink: Lest he shall drink and forget what is prescribed, and change the judgment of all the sons of affliction. Ye shall give strong drink to him perishing, and wine to the bitter of soul

And I will cause those oppressing thee to eat their own flesh, and they shall drink their blood to the full as new wine: and all flesh shall know that I am Jehovah saving thee, and redeeming thee, the Mighty One of Jacob.

To those remaining at the wine; to those going to seek mixed wine.

And Lot will go up from Zoar and will dwell in the mountain, and his two daughters with him, for he will fear to dwell in Zoar; and he will dwell in a cave, he and his two daughters. And the first-born will say to the small, our father has become old, and not a man in the earth to come in to us according to the way of all the earth: Come, we will give to our father wine to drink, and we will lie down with him, and we shall preserve alive seed from our father.read more.
And they will give their father wine to drink in that night, and the first-born will go in and will lie down with her father; and he will not know in her lying down, and in her rising up. And it shall be on the morrow, and the first-born will say to the small, Behold, I lay down yesterday with my father: we will also give him wine to drink this night; and go thou, lie down with him, and we shall preserve alive seed from our father. And they will give their father wine to drink also in that night, and the small will arise and will he down with him, and he will not know in her lying down and her rising up. And the two daughters of Lot will conceive by their father. And the first-born will bring forth a son, and she will call his name Moab: this the father of Moab till this day. And the small also, she will bring forth a son, and she will call his name the son of my people: this the father of the sons of Ammon till this day.

And David will call for him, and he will eat before him and drink; and he will make him drunk: and he will go forth in the evening to lie upon his bed with the servants of his lord; and he will not go down to his house.

For they ate the bread of injustice, and they will drink the wine of violences:

Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thy heart right in the way. Thou shalt not be with those drinking wine to excess, and with squanderers of flesh to them:

Jehovah mingled in the midst of her a spirit of perversities) and they caused Egypt to wander in all its works as the intoxicated wanders in his vomit

And they shall not drink wine every priest in their going in to the inner enclosure.

And for my people they cast the lot: and they will give the boy for a harlot, and they sold the girl for wine; and they will drink

And Daniel will set up upon his heart that he will not be defiled with the dainties of the king, and with the wine of his drinking: and he will seek from the chief of the eunuchs that he shall not defile himself.

Or know ye not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God Be ye not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, Nor thieves; nor covetous, nor intoxicated, nor railers, nor rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

Deacons likewise grave, not speaking equivocally, not holding to much wine, not occupied in sordid gain;

For the prophets my heart was broken in the midst of me, and all my bones were relaxed; I was as a man intoxicated, and as a man wine passing over him, from the face of Jehovah, and from the face of the words of his holiness.

And now I wrote to you not to mix together, if any called a brother is a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or intoxicated, or rapacious; not to eat with such.

Not for kings, O Lemuel, not for kings to drink and for princes the desire of strong drink:

And I say to you, that I drink not from henceforth of this fruit of the vine, even till that day when I drink it new with you, in the kingdom of my Father.

And its libation, the fourth of an hin for the one lamb in the holy place: pouring out a libation, a strong drink to Jehovah.

And Noah will begin a man of the earth, and he will plant a vineyard. And he will drink of the wine and he will be intoxicated, and will be uncovered within his tent And Ham the father of Canaan will see the nakedness of his father, and he will declare to his two brethren withoutread more.
And Shem and Japheth will take a garment and they will put upon their two shoulders, and will go backwards and will cover the nakedness of their father: and their faces backwards, and they will not see the nakedness of their father. And Noah will awake from his wine and will know what his young son did to him. And he will say, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be to his brethren. And he will say, Praised Jehovah, God of Shem; Canaan shall be servant to him.

And I shall lead you forty years in the desert: your garments did not fall away from you, and thy shoe was not warn away from thy foot Bread ye ate not, and wine and strong drink ye drank not; so that ye shall know that I am Jehovah your God.

Their wine the wrath of dragons, And the fierce head of asps.

And David will say to Abigail, Blessed Jehovah the God of Israel who sent thee this day to meet me. And blessed thy discernment, and blessed thou who finished me this day from coming for bloods, and my hand saving for me. But yet Jehovah the God of Israel lives who withheld me from doing thee evil, for unless thou hastenedst and came to meet me, for if there was left to Nabal by the light of the morning him pissing against the wall.read more.
And David will take from her hand what she brought to him, and he said to her, Go up for peace to thy house; see, I heard to thy voice, and I will lift up thy face. And Abigail will go to Nabal; and behold, to him a drinking in his house as the drinking of a king; and Nabal's heart good with him, and he was intoxicated even greatly; and she announced not to him a word small and great till the light of the morning. And it will be in the morning in the wine coming forth from Nabal, and his wife will announce to him these words, and his heart will die in the midst of him, and he was for a stone. And it will be about ten days, and Jehovah will strike Nabal, and he will die.

And Absalom will command his boys, saying, See now, when the heart of Amnon is good with wine, and I said to you, Strike Amnon; and kill him; ye shall not be afraid, for I commanded you: be strong and be for sons of strength. And Absalom's boys will do to Amnon as Absalom commanded. And all the king's sons will rise up and ride each upon his mule and flee.

In the twentieth and sixth year, the year to Asa king of Judah, Elah, son of Baasha reigned over Israel in Tirzah, two years. And Zimri, captain of half his chariots will conspire against him, and he in Tirzah drinking strong drink in the house of Arza, who was over his house in Tirzah. And Zimri will come in and strike him and will kill him in the twentieth and seventh year to Asa king of Judah, and he will reign in his stead.

And it will be when he heard this word he was drinking, and the kings in the booths; and he will say to his servants, Set ye. And they will set against the city. And behold, one prophet drew near to Ahab king of Israel, and he will say, Thus said Jehovah, Sawest thou all this great multitude? Behold me giving it into thy hand this day and thou knewest that I am Jehovah. And Ahab will say, By whom? And he will say, Thus said Jehovah, By the boys of the chiefs of the provinces. And he will say, Who shall bind the war? And he will say, Thou.read more.
And he will review the boys of the chiefs of the provinces, and they will be two hundred and thirty: and after them he reviewed all the people, all the sons of Israel, seven thousand. And they will go forth at noon. And Ben-hadad was drinking strong drink in the booths, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings helping him. And the boys of the chiefs of the provinces will go forth at the first; and Ben-hadad will send and they will announce to him, saying, Men came forth from Shomeron. And he will say, If for peace they came forth, seize them living; and if for war they came forth, seize them living. And these came forth from the city, the boys of the chiefs of the provinces, and the strength which was after them. And they will strike a man his man: and Aram will flee, and Israel will pursue them: and Ben-hadad king of Aram, will escape upon a horse, and the horsemen. And the king of Israel will go forth and strike the horse and the chariot, and he struck upon Aram a great blow.

And the Lord Jehovah of armies in that day will call to weeping and to wailing, and to baldness and to girding with sackcloth: And behold, gladness and joy, killing cattle and slaughtering sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die.

With the feet shall the crown of pride, the hirelings of Ephraim, be trodden down.

For all tables were full of vomit, of filth without place.

And Noah will begin a man of the earth, and he will plant a vineyard. And he will drink of the wine and he will be intoxicated, and will be uncovered within his tent

And says to him, Every man sets good wine first; and when they be intoxicated, then inferior: thou hast kept the good wine till now.

And Jehovah will speak to Aaron, saying. Wine and strong drink thou shalt not drink, thou and thy sons with thee, in your going in to the tent of appointment; and ye shall not die: a law forever to your generations. And to separate between the holy and between the unholy, and between the unclean and between the clean:read more.
And to teach the sons of Israel all the laws which Jehovah spake to them by the hand of Moses.

Belshazzar the king made great food for a thousand of his nobles, and before the thousand he drank wine. Belshazzar said, in tasting the wine, to bring in for the vessels of gold and silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father brought forth from the temple that was in Jerusalem; and in them the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines, will drink. At that time they brought the vessels of gold that were brought forth from the temple of the house of God which was in Jerusalem; and in them they drank, the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines.read more.
They drank wine, and praised to the gods of gold and silver, brass, iron, wood and stone.

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not consideration for the flesh, for the passions.

All things are lawful to me, but all are not profitable: all are lawful to me, but I will not be exercised by power under any.

Bread ye ate not, and wine and strong drink ye drank not; so that ye shall know that I am Jehovah your God.

All the fat of the oil, and all the fat of the new wine, and of the grain, their first-fruits which they shall give to Jehovah, to thee I gave them.

And be ye not conformed to this life, but be transformed by the renovation of your mind, for you to prove what the good, and the pleasing, and the perfected will of God.

And joy and gladness was taken away from Carmel, and in the vineyards there shall be no shout for joy, there shall be no cry with a loud voice: and he treading shall not tread out wine in the wine-vat: I caused the vintage shout to cease.

Babel a cup of gold in the hand of Jehovah, making all the earth drunk: the nations drank from her wine; for this the nations will be foolish.

Go eat in joy thy bread, and drink thy wine in a good heart; for already God was satisfied with thy works.

And it was in that day the mountains shall drop new wine, and the hills shall flow milk, and all the channels of Judah shall flow waters, and a fountain shall come forth from the house of Jehovah, and it watered the valley of acacias.

Behold, the days coming, says Jehovah, the ploughing touched upon the harvesting, and the treading of grapes upon the drawing of the seed; and the mountains dropped new wine, and all the hills shall melt.

She slaughtered her slaughter; she mingled her wine; also she prepared her table.

In that day, A vineyard being red, sing to her.

And ye forsaking Jehovah, forgetting my holy mountain, and preparing a table for Gad, and filling up for fate from mixed wine.