40 Bible Verses about alcoholism

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink,

let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more.

"Come," they say, "let me get wine; let us fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be like this day, great beyond measure."

Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress;

He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent.

"Then you shall say to them, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink, be drunk and vomit, fall and rise no more, because of the sword that I am sending among you.'

(No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.)

and spend the money for whatever you desire--oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your appetite craves. And you shall eat there before the LORD your God and rejoice, you and your household.

for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags

Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.

Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat,

Woe to those who rise early in the morning, that they may run after strong drink, who tarry late into the evening as wine inflames them!

Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.

No more do they drink wine with singing; strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.

But Hannah answered, "No, my lord, I am a woman troubled in spirit. I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I have been pouring out my soul before the LORD.

And when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?

Therefore be careful and drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean,

"Woe to him who makes his neighbors drink-- you pour out your wrath and make them drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!

Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine, and valiant men in mixing strong drink,

Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot--they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building,

They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,

You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.

he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar made from wine or strong drink and shall not drink any juice of grapes or eat grapes, fresh or dried.

"Drink no wine or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the tent of meeting, lest you die. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds."

In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder.

Deacons likewise must be dignified, not double-tongued,not addicted to much wine, not greedy for dishonest gain.

And Eli said to her, "How long will you go on being drunk? Put your wine away from you."

but he said to me, 'Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. So then drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.'"

for he will be great before the Lord. And he must not drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.

For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, 'Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!'

For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark,

envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.

It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.

Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?

For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.