6 Bible Verses about Intoxication
Most Relevant Verses
And be not drunk with wine, in which is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
Who has woe? who has sorrow? who has contentions? who has babbling? who has wounds without cause? who has redness of eyes?
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Awake, you drunkards, and weep; and howl, all you drinkers of wine, because of the new wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.
From Thematic Bible
Intoxication » Examples of » Drunkards, general references to
As a thorn goes up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under foot:
Awake, you drunkards, and weep; and howl, all you drinkers of wine, because of the new wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.
For while they are entangled together as thorns, and while they are drunk as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
Intoxication » 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 if that servant says in his heart, My lord delays his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunk;
For in eating every one takes first his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
Intoxication » Examples of » Nabal
And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk: therefore she told him nothing, little or much, until the morning light.
Intoxication » Examples of » Uriah
And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at evening he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house.
Intoxication » Examples of » benhadad
And they went out at noon. But Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him.
Intoxication » Examples of » Watchmen of israel
Come you, they say, I will bring wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.
Intoxication » Examples of » Elah
And his servant 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.
Intoxication » Examples of » Noah
Intoxication » 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 Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,
Intoxication » Examples of » Kings of israel
In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scoffers.