40 Bible Verses about alcoholism

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes to lust for strong drink;

Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

They say, come, Let us take wine, and let us gulp strong drink; and tomorrow shall be like today, and much more abundant.

Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish, and wine to those who are of heavy hearts.

And he drank of the wine and was drunk. And he was uncovered inside his tent.

So you shall say to them, So says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel: Drink and be drunk, and vomit, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.

Drink water no longer, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake, and for your frequent infirmities.

And you shall pay that silver for whatever your soul desires, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul desires. And you shall eat there before Jehovah your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household

for the drunkard and the glutton lose all, and sleepiness shall clothe a man with rags.

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whoever goes astray by it is not wise.

Do not be among those who drink much wine, among gluttons for flesh for themselves,

Woe to those who rise up early in the morning to go after strong drink; tarrying in the twilight while wine inflames them!

Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God now is pleased with your works.

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

And Hannah answered, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have neither drunk wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before Jehovah.

And when you ate, and when you drank, was it not for you the eaters, and for you, the drinkers?

And now, please take heed, and do not drink wine nor strong drink, and do not eat any unclean thing.

Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring out your wineskin, and also making him drunk, that you may look on their nakedness!

Woe to those mighty to drink wine, and brave men to mix strong drink;

So also as it was in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;

They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark; and the flood came and destroyed them all.

And do not be drunk with wine, in which is excess, but be filled with the Spirit,

You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot be partakers of the Lord's table and of a table of demons.

he shall separate from wine and strong drink and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink; neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes or dried.

Do not drink wine nor strong drink, neither you nor your sons with you, when you go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest you die, a statute forever throughout your generations.

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man who is a glutton and a winebibber, a friend of tax-collectors and sinners. But wisdom was justified by her children.

At the last it bites like an asp and stings like an adder.

Likewise the deacons are to be reverent, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of ill gain,

And Eli said to her, How long will you be drunken? Put away your wine from you!

But He said to me, Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. And now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing, for the boy shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.

For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall neither drink wine nor strong drink. And he shall be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.

for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, Behold a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of tax-collectors and sinners!

For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered into the ark.

envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revelings, and things like these; of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

For he who eats and drinks unworthily eats and drinks condemnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.

It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything by which your brother stumbles, or is offended, or is made weak.

Do not look upon the wine when it is red, when it gives its color in the cup, when it goes down smoothly

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has fighting? Who has babbling? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?

For the time of life which is past is enough for us to have worked out the will of the nations, having gone on in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, parties, carousings, and abominable idolatries.