6 Bible Verses about Intemperance

For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.

The one who keeps the law is a son with understanding, but a companion of gluttons shames his father.

suffering wrong as the wage for their wrongdoing. They count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, while they feast with you.

envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

King Belshazzar made a great feast for a thousand of his lords and drank wine in front of the thousand.

Like a thorn that goes up into the hand of a drunkard is a proverb in the mouth of fools.

Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine, and valiant men in mixing strong drink,

The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden underfoot;

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

For they are like entangled thorns, like drunkards as they drink; they are consumed like stubble fully dried.

and have cast lots for my people, and have traded a boy for a prostitute, and have sold a girl for wine and have drunk it.

But if that servant says to himself, 'My master is delayed in coming,' and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

For in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal. One goes hungry, another gets drunk.

And Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. So she told him nothing at all until the morning light.

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

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

"Come," they say, "let me get wine; let us fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be like this day, great beyond measure."

But his servant Zimri, commander of half his chariots, conspired against him. When he was at Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah,

He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in 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 Carkas, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of King Ahasuerus,

On the day of our king, the princes became sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with mockers.

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink, lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted.