5 Bible Verses about Intemperance

For enough time of life has past for you to accomplish the will of the Gentiles, having gone in debaucheries, lusts, excesses of wine, revelings, drinking parties, and lawless idolatries.

He who keeps the law is a wise son, but he who is a companion of gluttons shames his father.

getting back a wage of unrighteousness. Men who consider soft living in the daytime to be pleasure, spots and blemishes reveling in their deceitfulness, feasting together with you,

envyings, murders, intoxications, revelings, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, as I also did forewarn, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.

[As] a thorn that goes up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink,

The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under foot.

Awake, ye drunkards, and weep, and wail, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.

For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.

and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.

But if that bondman should say in his heart, My lord is late to come, and should begin to beat the servant boys and the servant girls, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,

For each man proceeds to eat his own meal, and one is hungry and another is drunken.

And Abigail came to Nabal, and, behold, he held a feast in his house like the feast of a king. And Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

And when David had called him, he ate and drank before him, and he made him drunk. And at evening he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but did not go down to his house.

And they went out at noon. But Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings who helped him.

Come ye, [they say], I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink. And tomorrow shall be as this day, great beyond measure.

And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him. Now he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah.

And he drank of the wine, and was drunken. And he was uncovered within his tent.

On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains who ministered in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,

On the day of our king the rulers made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He stretched out his hand with scoffers.

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for rulers [to say], Where is strong drink? Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice [due] to any who is afflicted.