6 Bible Verses about Intemperance

For there has already been enough time spent in doing what the pagans choose to do: carrying on in unrestrained behavior, evil desires, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and lawless idolatry.

A discerning son keeps the law,
but a companion of gluttons humiliates his father.

suffering harm as the payment for unrighteousness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, delighting in their deceptions as they feast with you.

envy, drunkenness, carousing, and anything similar. I tell you about these things in advance—as I told you before—that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

King Belshazzar held a great feast for 1,000 of his nobles and drank wine in their presence.

A proverb in the mouth of a fool
is like a stick with thorns,
brandished by the hand of a drunkard.

Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine,
who are fearless at mixing beer,

The majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards
will be trampled underfoot.

Wake up, you drunkards, and weep;
wail, all you wine drinkers,
because of the sweet wine,
for it has been taken from your mouth.

For they will be consumed
like entangled thorns,
like the drink of a drunkard
and like straw that is fully dry.

They cast lots for My people;
they bartered a boy for a prostitute
and sold a girl for wine to drink.

But if that slave says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’ and starts to beat the male and female slaves, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

For at the meal, each one eats his own supper ahead of others. So one person is hungry while another gets drunk!

Then Abigail went to Nabal, and there he was in his house, holding a feast fit for a king. Nabal was in a good mood and very drunk, so she didn’t say anything to him until morning light.

Then David invited Uriah to eat and drink with him, and David got him drunk. He went out in the evening to lie down on his cot with his master’s servants, but he did not go home.

They marched out at noon while Ben-hadad and the 32 kings who were helping him were getting drunk in the tents.

“Come, let me get some wine,
let’s guzzle some beer;
and tomorrow will be like today,
only far better!”

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His servant Zimri, commander of half his chariots, conspired against him while Elah was in Tirzah getting drunk in the house of Arza, who was in charge of the household at Tirzah.

He drank some of the wine, became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent.

On the seventh day, when the king was feeling good from the wine, Ahasuerus commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carkas, the seven eunuchs who personally served him,

On the day of our king,
the princes are sick with the heat of wine—
there is a conspiracy with traitors.

It is not for kings, Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine or for rulers [to desire] beer. Otherwise, they will drink, forget what is decreed, and pervert justice for all the oppressed.