6 Bible Verses about Intoxication

As a thorn goes into the hand of a drunkard, so is a proverb in the mouth of fools.

You are doomed! Heroes of the wine bottle! Brave and fearless when it comes to mixing drinks!

The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under foot.

Awake, you drunkards, and weep! Wail you drinkers of wine. The sweet wine is removed from your mouth.

Entangled like thorns and drunken from drink, they are consumed like dry stubble.

They cast lots for my people, and traded a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.

If that servant says in his heart, my master delays his coming; and beats the other servants and eats and drinks to excess,

For in eating every one goes ahead with out waiting for everybody else. One is hungry and another is drunk.

When Abigail came to Nabal, he was holding a banquet in his home. It was like a king's banquet. He was in a good mood and very drunk, so she did not tell him anything until dawn.

David invited him for dinner. Uriah ate with David and drank so much that he got drunk. However he still did not go home. He went out and slept on his mat near the palace guards.

In the middle of the day they went out. But Benhadad was drinking in the tents with the thirty-two kings who were helping him.

Come, each one cries, let me get wine! Let us drink our fill of beer! And tomorrow will be like today, or even far better.

His servant Zimri, commander of half his war-carriages made plans to kill him. He was in Tirzah, drinking hard at the house of Arza, controller of the king's house in Tirzah.

He drank some of its wine. He became drunk and lay undressed inside his tent.

On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was glad with wine, he gave orders to Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven eunuchs who served in the presences of King Ahasuerus.

On the day of the king's celebration, the officials become drunk from the heat of wine, and the king joins mockers.