6 Bible Verses about Intoxication

A parable in a fools mouth is like a thorn that pricketh a drunken man in the hand.

Woe be unto them that are cunning men to sup out wine and expert to set up drunkenness.

And the proud crown of the drunken Ephraimites shall be trodden under foot.

Wake up ye drunkards, and weep: mourn all ye wine sippers because of your sweet wine, for it shall be taken away from your mouth.

For like as the thorns that stick together, and as the dry straw, so shall the drunkards be consumed together, even when they be full.

Yea, they have cast lots for my people, the young men have they set in the brothel house, and sold the damsels for wine, that they might have to drink.

But and if the evil servant shall say in his heart, 'My master will defer his coming,' and shall begin to smite the servants, and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken:

For every man beginneth afore to eat his own supper. And one is hungry, and another is drunken.

And when Abigail came to Nabal, behold, he held a feast in his house like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, and he was drunk a good. Wherefore she told him nought, neither little nor more, until the morrow day.

And David called him, and he ate and drank before him, and he made him drunk. And at even he went out to lie on his couch with the servants of the lord, and went not down to his house.

And they went out at noon when Benhadad was a drinking strong drink in the pavilions with the thirty two kings that holp him.

"Come," say they, "I will fetch wine, so shall we fill ourselves, that we may be drunken. And do tomorrow, like as today; yea, and much more."

And his servant Zimri captain of half his chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah drinking of strong drink, in the house of Arza steward of his house in Tirzah.

and drank of the wine and was drunk, and lay uncovered in the midst of his tent.

And on the seventh day, when the king was merry of the wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carkas - the seven chamberlains that did service in the presence of king Ahasuerus -

Even so goeth it this day with our kings and princes, for they begin to be wood drunken through wine: they use familiarity with such as deceive them.