31 Bible Verses about Alcoholic Beverages
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and wine that makes glad the heart of man, making his face to shine with oil and bread which sustains man's heart.
Give beer unto him that is ready to perish and wine unto those that have heavy hearts.
and thou shalt give that money for whatever thy soul desires, for cows or for sheep or for wine or for strong drink or for whatever thy soul desires; and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou and thine household.
Go, eat thy bread with joy and drink thy wine with a joyful heart that thy works might be acceptable unto God.
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
they shall separate themselves from wine and strong drink and shall drink no vinegar of wine or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall they drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes or dried.
Now keep thyself and drink no wine nor strong drink and eat no unclean thing.
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor is beer for princes
Woe unto those that are mighty to drink wine and men of strength to mingle strong drink;
Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee when ye go into the tabernacle of the testimony, lest ye die; it shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations;
Wine makes a mocker, and beer a reveler, and whoever errs concerning them shall never be wise.
Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; ye cannot be participants of the Lord's table and of the table of demons.
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.
But they said, We will drink no wine: for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no wine, neither ye, nor your sons for ever:
Woe unto him that gives his neighbours drink, that puts thy bottle to them, and makes them drunken also, that thou may look on their nakedness!
They shall not drink wine with a song; the drink shall be bitter to them that would drink it.
And the drink offering thereof shall be the fourth part of a hin with each lamb; thou shalt pour out the drink offering of superior wine unto the LORD in the sanctuary.
And be not drunk with wine, in which there is excess, but be filled with the Spirit,
but he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt 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.
and he drank of the wine and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
What? Do ye not have houses to eat and to drink in? or do ye despise the congregation of God and shame those that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.
For if ye are dead with the Christ to the elements of the world, why, as though living unto the world, do ye decree rites, touch not; taste not; handle not?
But I say unto you, I will not drink from now on of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.
And they made their father drink wine that night; and the firstborn went in and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
Ye have never eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.
Then he said unto them, Go, eat the fat, and drink sweet wine, and send portions unto those who have nothing prepared; for this day is holy unto our Lord, and not sad; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.
they gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall; and when he had tasted of it, he would not drink.
She may not eat of any thing that comes of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing; all that I commanded her let her keep.
For thus hath the LORD said: Behold, those who were not condemned to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and shalt thou be absolved of everything? Thou shalt not be absolved, but thou shalt surely drink of it.