40 Bible Verses about alcoholism

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor is beer for princes

They drink and forget their need and remember their misery no more.

Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, or much more excellent.

Give beer unto him that is ready to perish and wine unto those that have heavy hearts.

and he drank of the wine and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.

Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus hath the LORD of the hosts, the God of Israel said; Drink and be drunken, and vomit and fall, and ye shall not rise in the presence of the sword which I send among you.

Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.

and thou shalt give that money for whatever thy soul desires, for cows or for sheep or for wine or for strong drink or for whatever thy soul desires; and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou and thine household.

for the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty, and drowsiness shall cause them to wear rags.

Wine makes a mocker, and beer a reveler, and whoever errs concerning them shall never be wise.

Do not be among those who are drunk with wine; nor among gluttonous eaters of food;

Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning that they may continue their drunkenness; that continue until night until wine inflames them!

Go, eat thy bread with joy and drink thy wine with a joyful heart that thy works might be acceptable unto God.

They shall not drink wine with a song; the drink shall be bitter to them that would drink it.

And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit; I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink but have poured out my soul before the LORD.

And when ye ate, and when ye drank, did ye not eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

Now keep thyself and drink no wine nor strong drink and eat no unclean thing.

Woe unto him that gives his neighbours drink, that puts thy bottle to them, and makes them drunken also, that thou may look on their nakedness!

Woe unto those that are mighty to drink wine and men of strength to mingle strong drink;

Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;

They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

And be not drunk with wine, in which there is excess, but be filled with the Spirit,

Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; ye cannot be participants of the Lord's table and of the table of demons.

they shall separate themselves from wine and strong drink and shall drink no vinegar of wine or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall they drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes or dried.

Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee when ye go into the tabernacle of the testimony, lest ye die; it shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations;

The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified by her children.

At the last it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder.

Likewise the deacons must be honest, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of dishonest gain;

And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? Put away thy wine from thee.

but he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive and bear a son, and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing; for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death.

For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.

for the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

The Son of man is come eating and drinking, and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!

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

envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; which I denounce, as I have also told you in time past that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

For he that eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.

It is good neither to eat flesh nor to drink wine nor do any thing by which thy brother stumbles or is offended or is sick.

Do not look upon the wine when it is red, when it gives its colour in the cup, it goes down smoothly.

For who shall be the woe? for who shall be the woe? for who contention? for who quarrels? for who the wounds without cause? who shall have redness of eyes?

For it should suffice us that during the time past of our life we had done the will of the Gentiles, when we conversed in lasciviousness, lusts, drunkenness, gluttony, orgies, and abominable idolatries.