20 Bible Verses about Strong Drink

Give beer to one who is dying
and wine to one whose life is bitter.

“You and your sons are not to drink wine or beer when you enter the tent of meeting, or else you will die; this is a permanent statute throughout your generations.

he is to abstain from wine and beer. He must not drink vinegar made from wine or from beer. He must not drink any grape juice or eat fresh grapes or raisins.

Now please be careful not to drink wine or beer, or to eat anything unclean;

He said to me, ‘You will conceive and give birth to a son. Therefore, do not drink wine or beer, and do not eat anything unclean, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from birth until the day of his death.’”

She must not eat anything that comes from the grapevine or drink wine or beer. And she must not eat anything unclean. Your wife must do everything I have commanded her.”

The drink offering is to be a quart with each lamb. Pour out the offering of beer to the Lord in the sanctuary area.

You may spend the money on anything you want: cattle, sheep, wine, beer, or anything you desire. You are to feast there in the presence of the Lord your God and rejoice with your family.

If a man of wind comes
and invents lies:
“I will preach to you about wine and beer,”
he would be just the preacher for this people!

Those who sit at the city gate talk about me,
and drunkards make up songs about me.

Wine is a mocker, beer is a brawler,
and whoever staggers because of them is not wise.

These also stagger because of wine
and stumble under the influence of beer:
priest and prophet stagger because of beer,
they are confused by wine.
They stumble because of beer,
they are muddled in their visions,
they stumble in their judgments.

Stop and be astonished;
blind yourselves and be blind!
They are drunk, but not with wine;
they stagger, but not with beer.

It is not for kings, Lemuel,
it is not for kings to drink wine
or for rulers to desire beer.

Woe to those who rise early in the morning
in pursuit of beer,
who linger into the evening,
inflamed by wine.

Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine,
who are fearless at mixing beer,

“Come, let me get some wine,
let’s guzzle some beer;
and tomorrow will be like today,
only far better!”

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They no longer sing and drink wine;
beer is bitter to those who drink it.

you did not eat bread or drink wine or beer—so that you might know that I am Yahweh your God.

“No, my lord,” Hannah replied. “I am a woman with a broken heart. I haven’t had any wine or beer; I’ve been pouring out my heart before the Lord.