15 Bible Verses about alcoholism

Do not continue to drink nothing but water, but take a little wine for your stomach's sake, and your frequent attacks of illness.

"The same was true in the time of Lot; they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building;

"Men were eating and drinking; they were marrying and being married, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

Do not be drunk with wine, in which is riotous living, but drink deep in the Spirit,

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

and the Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Lo, a glutton and a wine-drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners!' Nevertheless, Wisdom is justified by her deeds."

Deacons, likewise, must be serious, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of gain,

"For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, "He shall drink neither wine nor strong drink, "He shall be filled with the Holy Spirit from the hour of his birth,

For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of 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 publicans and sinners!'

For just as in the days before the deluge they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the very day when Noah entered the ark,

envy, drunkenness, revellings, and things like these. I tell you beforehand, as I have already told you, that those who practise such sins shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

For whoever eats and drinks without discerning the body, eats and drinks condemnation to himself.

The right course is not to eat meat, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything through which your brother is made to stumble.

For the time past of life may suffice us to have worked the will of the Gentiles, when we spent our life in lasciviousness, lusts, hard drinking, revelry, banqueting, and abominable idol worship.