40 Bible Verses about alcoholism

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

He shall drink and forget his poverty, and shall no more remember his toil.

Come ye, I will take wine, and we will drink strong drink to excess; and the morrow being as this day, the remainder great exceedingly.

Ye shall give strong drink to him perishing, and wine to the bitter of soul

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

And say to them, thus said Jehovah of armies, God of Israel, Drink ye and be drunken, and vomit and fall, and ye shall not rise from the face of the sword which I sent in the midst of you.

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

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.

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

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

Thou shalt not be with those drinking wine to excess, and with squanderers of flesh to them:

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

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

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

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.

And when ye shall eat, and when ye shall drink, are ye not eating, and are ye not drinking?

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

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

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

And likewise as it was in the days of Lot; they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;

They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, till the day which Noe came into the ark, and the overflow came, and destroyed all.

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

Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: ye cannot partake of the table of the Lord, and the table of demons.

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

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.

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.

Its latter state it will bite as serpent, and sting as a viper.

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

And Eli will say to her, How long wilt thou be intoxicated? remove thy wine from thee.

And he will say to me, Behold, thee conceiving, and thou bearest a son; and now drink not wine and strong drink, and thou shalt not eat any thing unclean, for the boy shall be consecrated to God from the womb, even to the day of his death.

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.

For the kingdom of God is not food and drink; but justice, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

The Son of man came eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a man, a glutton, and wine-drinker, a friend of publicans and sinful.

For as they were in the days of the inundation, eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noe came into the ark,

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.

For he eating and drinking unworthily, eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.

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

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.

To whom wo? to whom want? to whom strife? to whom complaint? to whom wounds gratuitously? to whom dark fleshings of the eyes?

For the time of life passed over sufficient for us to have wrought the will of the nations, having gone in licentiousness, eager desires, drunkenness, revellings, drinkings, and criminal idolatries: