6 Bible Verses about Intemperance

For the time of life passed over sufficient for us to have wrought the will of the nations, having gone in licentiousness, eager desires, drunkenness, revellings, drinkings, and criminal idolatries:

He watching the law a son understanding: and the companion of squanderers will shame his father.

Receiving the reward of injustice, deeming luxurious indulgence pleasure in the day. Spots and blemishes, rioting in their deceits, feasting together with you

Envyings, slaughters, drunkenness, revelries, and the like: to these which I foretell you, as I have also said before, that they doing such shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Belshazzar the king made great food for a thousand of his nobles, and before the thousand he drank wine.

A thorn going up into the hand of a drunkard, a parable in the mouth of the foolish.

Wo to the strong to drink wine, and men of strength to mix strong drink:

With the feet shall the crown of pride, the hirelings of Ephraim, be trodden down.

Awake, ye intoxicated, and weep; and wail, all ye drinking wine, on account of the new wine, for it was cut off from your mouth.

For even to thorns surrounding them, and drinking to excess as drunkards, they shall be devoured as straw fully dried up.

And for my people they cast the lot: and they will give the boy for a harlot, and they sold the girl for wine; and they will drink

And if that servant should say in his heart, My Lord delays to come; and should begin to strike the servants and maids, also to eat and drink, and to be intoxicated;

For each takes his own supper in eating: and one is truly hungry, and one is intoxicated.

And Abigail will go to Nabal; and behold, to him a drinking in his house as the drinking of a king; and Nabal's heart good with him, and he was intoxicated even greatly; and she announced not to him a word small and great till the light of the morning.

And David will call for him, and he will eat before him and drink; and he will make him drunk: and he will go forth in the evening to lie upon his bed with the servants of his lord; and he will not go down to his house.

And they will go forth at noon. And Ben-hadad was drinking strong drink in the booths, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings helping him.

Come ye, I will take wine, and we will drink strong drink to excess; and the morrow being as this day, the remainder great exceedingly.

And Zimri, captain of half his chariots will conspire against him, and he in Tirzah drinking strong drink in the house of Arza, who was over his house in Tirzah.

And he will drink of the wine and he will be intoxicated, and will be uncovered within his tent

In the seventh day, as the heart of the king being good with wine, he said to Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven eunuchs serving the face of king Ahasuerus,

The day of our king the chiefs began anger from wine; stretching forth his hand with mockers.

Not for kings, O Lemuel, not for kings to drink and for princes the desire of strong drink: Lest he shall drink and forget what is prescribed, and change the judgment of all the sons of affliction.