15 Bible Verses about alcoholism

[Give up being a total abstainer; take a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent attacks of illness.]

Or just as it was in the days of Lot; they were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting and building,

they were eating, drinking, marrying and being married, till the day Noah entered the ark ??then came the deluge and destroyed them all.

and do not get drunk with wine ??that means profligacy ??but be filled with the Spirit,

You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and also the cup of daemons; you cannot partake of the table of the Lord and also of the table of daemons.

the Son of man has come eating and drinking, and men say, 'Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of taxgatherers and sinners!' Nevertheless, Wisdom is vindicated by all that she does."

Deacons in turn are to be serious men; they are not to be tale-bearers or addicted to drink or pilfering;

for he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, he will drink neither wine nor strong drink, he will be filled with the holy Spirit from his very birth;

The Reign of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, it means righteousness, peace, and joy in the holy Spirit;

the Son of man has come eating and drinking, and you say, 'Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of taxgatherers and sinners!'

For as in the days before the deluge people ate and drank, married and were married, till the day Noah entered the ark;

envy, [murder], drinking bouts, revelry, and the like; I tell you beforehand as I have told you already, that people who indulge in such practices will never inherit the Realm of God.

For he who eats and drinks without a proper sense of the Body, eats and drinks to his own condemnation.

the right course is to abstain from flesh or wine or indeed anything that your brother feels to be a stumbling-block.

It is quite enough to have done as pagans choose to do, during the time gone by! You used to lead lives of sensuality, lust, carousing, revelry, dissipation and illicit idolatry,