40 Bible Verses about alcoholism

It is not for kings, Lemuel; it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes to say, 'Where is strong drink?'

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

"Come," [say they], "I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, [a day] great beyond measure."

Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish; and wine to the bitter in soul:

He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent.

You shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Drink, and be drunk, vomit, fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.

Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake and your frequent infirmities.

and you shall bestow the money for whatever your soul desires, for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you; and you shall eat there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.

for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

Wine is a mocker, and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

Don't be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:

Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!

Go your way -- eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.

They will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it.

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

When you eat, and when you drink, don't you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

Now therefore please beware and drink no wine nor strong drink, and don't eat any unclean thing:

"Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!

Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at mixing strong drink;

Likewise, even as it happened in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;

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

Don't be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

You can't both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can't both partake of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons.

he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of fermented drink, neither shall he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried.

"Drink no wine nor strong drink, you, nor your sons with you, when you go into the Tent of Meeting, that you don't die: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations:

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' But wisdom is justified by her children."

In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.

Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money;

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, and eat not any unclean thing; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.'"

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.

for the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, 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 drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!'

For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship,

envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy way eats and drinks judgment to himself, if he doesn't discern the Lord's body.

It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

Don't look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?

For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.