6 Bible Verses about Intemperance

For the time that has passed was sufficient for you to do what the non-Christians desire. You lived then in debauchery, evil desires, drunkenness, carousing, drinking bouts, and wanton idolatries.

The one who keeps the law is a discerning child, but a companion of gluttons brings shame to his parents.

suffering harm as the wages for their harmful ways. By considering it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight, they are stains and blemishes, indulging in their deceitful pleasures when they feast together with you.

envying, murder, drunkenness, carousing, and similar things. I am warning you, as I had warned you before: Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God!

King Belshazzar prepared a great banquet for a thousand of his nobles, and he was drinking wine in front of them all.

Like a thorn that goes into the hand of a drunkard, so is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.

Those who are champions at drinking wine are as good as dead, who display great courage when mixing strong drinks.

The splendid crown of Ephraim's drunkards will be trampled underfoot.

Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you wine drinkers, because the sweet wine has been taken away from you.

Surely they will be totally consumed like entangled thorn bushes, like the drink of drunkards, like very dry stubble.

and they cast lots for my people. They traded a boy for a prostitute; they sold a little girl for wine so they could drink.

But if that slave should say to himself, 'My master is delayed in returning,' and he begins to beat the other slaves, both men and women, and to eat, drink, and get drunk,

For when it is time to eat, everyone proceeds with his own supper. One is hungry and another becomes drunk.

When Abigail went back to Nabal, he was holding a banquet in his house like that of the king. Nabal was having a good time and was very intoxicated. She told him absolutely nothing until morning's light.

Then David summoned him. He ate and drank with him, and got him drunk. But in the evening he went out to sleep on his bed with the servants of his lord; he did not go down to his own house.

They marched out at noon, while Ben Hadad and the thirty-two kings allied with him were drinking heavily in their quarters.

Each one says, 'Come on, I'll get some wine! Let's guzzle some beer! Tomorrow will be just like today! We'll have everything we want!'

His servant Zimri, a commander of half of his chariot force, conspired against him. While Elah was drinking heavily at the house of Arza, who supervised the palace in Tirzah,

When he drank some of the wine, he got drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.

On the seventh day, as King Ahasuerus was feeling the effects of the wine, he ordered Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven eunuchs who attended him,

At the celebration of their king, his princes become inflamed with wine; they conspire with evildoers.

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to crave strong drink, lest they drink and forget what is decreed, and remove from all the poor their legal rights.