6 Bible Verses about Intemperance

For the time past is sufficient for us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, walking in lasciviousness, lusts, wine-drinking, revels, drinkings, and unhallowed idolatries.

Whoso observeth the law is a son that hath understanding; but he that is a companion of profligates bringeth shame to his father.

receiving the reward of unrighteousness; accounting ephemeral indulgence pleasure; spots and blemishes, rioting in their own deceits, feasting with you;

envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these; as to which I tell you beforehand, even as I also have said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit God's kingdom.

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

As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a proverb in the mouth of fools.

Woe unto them that are mighty for drinking wine, and men valiant to mix strong drink;

The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under feet;

Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine: for it is cut off from your mouth.

Though they be tangled together as thorns, and be as drenched from their drink, they shall be devoured as dry stubble, completely.

and they have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, and have drunk it.

But if that bondman should say in his heart, My lord delays to come, and begin to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and to drink and to be drunken,

For each one in eating takes his own supper before others, and one is hungry and another drinks to excess.

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 drunken to excess; so she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

And David invited him, and he ate and drank before him; and he made him drunk. And in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, but did not go down to his house.

And they went out at noon; and Ben-Hadad drank himself drunk in the tents, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings that helped him.

Come, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to-morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.

And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him; and he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was the steward of his house in Tirzah;

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

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

In the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine: he stretched out his hand to scorners.

It is not for kings, Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for rulers to say, Where is the strong drink? lest they drink And forget the law, And pervert the judgment of any of the children of affliction.