6 Bible Verses about Intemperance
Most Relevant Verses
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and straighten thy heart in the way. Do not be among those who are drunk with wine; nor among gluttonous eaters of food; for the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty, and drowsiness shall cause them to wear rags.
One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies.
For this cause God gave them up unto shameful affections, for even their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature; and likewise also the males, leaving the natural use of the females, burned in their lust one toward another, males with males committing nefarious works and receiving in themselves the recompense that proceeded from their error.
whose end shall be perdition, whose God is their belly and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things).
But even a whole month, until it comes out of your nostrils and it becomes loathsome unto you, because ye have despised the LORD who is among you and have wept before him, saying, Why have we come forth out of Egypt?
And Abigail came to Nabal, and, behold, he held a banquet in his house like the banquet of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken; therefore, she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light. But it came to pass in the morning when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone. And it came to pass about ten days after, that the LORD smote Nabal, and he died.
From Thematic Bible
Intemperance » Examples of » Excess, general references to
For it should suffice us that during the time past of our life we had done the will of the Gentiles, when we conversed in lasciviousness, lusts, drunkenness, gluttony, orgies, and abominable idolatries.
Whosoever keeps the law is a wise son, but he that is a companion of gluttons shames his father.
receiving the reward of their unrighteousness, as those that count it pleasure to live luxuriously every day. These are spots and blemishes, who eat together with you, while at the same time they revel in their deceit,
envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; which I denounce, as I have also told you in time past that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Belshazzar the king made a great banquet to a thousand of his lords, and against the thousand he drank wine.
Intemperance » Examples of » Drunkards, general references to
As thorns sunk into the hand of one who is drunk, so is a proverb in the mouth of fools.
Woe unto those that are mighty to drink wine and men of strength to mingle strong drink;
The crown of pride, 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.
For while they are entwined together as thorns, and while the drunkards shall be drinking, they shall be devoured as stubble full of dryness.
Intemperance » Examples of » Other examples
And they have cast lots for my people and have given a boy for a harlot and sold a girl for wine that they might drink.
But and if that slave shall say in his heart, My lord delays his coming, and shall begin to beat the menslaves and maids and to eat and drink and to be drunken,
For in eating, each one takes his own supper first: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
Intemperance » Examples of » Nabal
And Abigail came to Nabal, and, behold, he held a banquet in his house like the banquet of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken; therefore, she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
Intemperance » Examples of » Uriah
And when David had called him, he ate and drank before him, and he made him drunk; and in the evening he went out to lie on his bed with the slaves of his lord but did not go down to his house.
Intemperance » Examples of » benhadad
And they went out at noon. But Benhadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings that helped him.
Intemperance » Examples of » Watchmen of israel
Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, or much more excellent.
Intemperance » Examples of » Elah
And his slave Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, steward of his house in Tirzah.
Intemperance » Examples of » Noah
Intemperance » Examples of » Ahasuerus
On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven eunuchs that served in the presence of Ahasuerus, the king,
Intemperance » Examples of » Kings of israel
In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with a wineskin; he stretched out his hand with the scorners.
Kings » Specially warned against » Intemperance
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor is beer for princes lest they drink and forget the law and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
