6 Bible Verses about Intemperance
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Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path! Don't be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat: for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.
One of them, a prophet of their own, said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons."
For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error.
whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
but a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it is loathsome to you; because that you have rejected Yahweh who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, "Why did we come out of Egypt?"'"
Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken. Therefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light. It happened in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, that his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone. It happened about ten days after, that Yahweh struck Nabal, so that he died.
From Thematic Bible
Intemperance » Examples of » Excess, general references to
For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.
Whoever keeps the law is a wise son; but he who is a companion of gluttons shames his father.
receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;
envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
Intemperance » Examples of » Drunkards, general references to
Like a thornbush that goes into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden under foot.
Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.
Intemperance » Examples of » Other examples
and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.
But if that servant says in his heart, 'My lord delays his coming,' and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,
For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.
Intemperance » Examples of » Nabal
Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. 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
When David had called him, he ate and drink before him; and he made him drunk. At evening, he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but didn't go down to his house.
Intemperance » Examples of » benhadad
They went out at noon. But Ben Hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings who helped him.
Intemperance » Examples of » Watchmen of israel
"Come," [say they], "I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, [a day] great beyond measure."
Intemperance » Examples of » Elah
His servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him. Now he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household 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, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcass, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,
Intemperance » Examples of » Kings of israel
On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers.
Kings » Specially warned against » Intemperance
It is not for kings, Lemuel; it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes to say, 'Where is strong drink?' lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.
