31 Bible Verses about Alcoholic Beverages
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and wine to gladden the heart of man, oil to make his face shine and bread to strengthen man's heart.
let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more.
Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress;
and spend the money for whatever you desire--oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your appetite craves. And you shall eat there before the LORD your God and rejoice, you and your household.
Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.
(No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.)
he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar made from wine or strong drink and shall not drink any juice of grapes or eat grapes, fresh or dried.
Therefore be careful and drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean,
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink,
Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine, and valiant men in mixing strong drink,
"Drink no wine or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the tent of meeting, lest you die. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.
You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.
for he will be great before the Lord. And he must not drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.
But they answered, "We will drink no wine, for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, 'You shall not drink wine, neither you nor your sons forever.
"Woe to him who makes his neighbors drink-- you pour out your wrath and make them drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!
No more do they drink wine with singing; strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.
Its drink offering shall be a quarter of a hin for each lamb. In the Holy Place you shall pour out a drink offering of strong drink to the LORD.
And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,
but he said to me, 'Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. So then drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.'"
What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I commend you in this? No, I will not.
If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations-- "Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch"
I tell you I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom."
So they made their father drink wine that night. And the firstborn went in and lay with her father. He did not know when she lay down or when she arose.
You have not eaten bread, and you have not drunk wine or strong drink, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.
Then he said to them, "Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the LORD is your strength."
they offered him wine to drink, mixed with gall, but when he tasted it, he would not drink it.
She may not eat of anything that comes from the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, or eat any unclean thing. All that I commanded her let her observe."
For thus says the LORD: "If those who did not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, will you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you must drink.
