40 Bible Verses about alcoholism

O Lemuel, give kings no wine, give kings and princes no strong drink;

that they may drink it, and forget their misery and adversity.

"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."

Give strong drink unto such as are condemned to death, and wine unto those that mourn:

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

'And say thou unto them: This is the commandment of the LORD of Hosts the God of Israel: Drink and be drunken, spew and fall, that ye never rise: and that through the sword which I will send among you.

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

and bestow that money on whatsoever thy soul lusteth after: on oxen, sheep, wine and good drink, and on whatsoever thy soul desireth, and eat there before the LORD thy God and be merry: both thou, and thine household,

for such as be drunkards and riotous shall come to poverty, and he that is given to much sleep, shall go with a ragged coat.

Wine is a voluptuous thing, and drunkenness causes sedition; whoso delighteth therein, shall never be wise.

Keep no company with winebibbers and riotous eaters of flesh;

Woe unto them that rise up early to use themselves in drunkenness, and yet at night are more superfluous with wine.

Go thou thy way then, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with gladness, for thy works please God.

there shall no more wine be drunk with mirth, the beer shall be bitter to them that drink it;

Hannah answered, and said, "Not so, my lord. I am a woman sorrowful in mine heart, and have drunk neither wine nor any strong drink, but I have poured out my soul before the LORD.

When ye ate also and drank, did ye not eat and drink for your own selves?

And now beware, and drink no wine nor strong drink; neither eat any unclean thing.

Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, to get him wrathful displeasure for his drunkenness: that he may see his privities.

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

Likewise also, as it chanced, in the days of Lot. They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built.

They ate, they drank, they married wives and were married even unto the same day that Noah went into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess: but be fulfilled with the spirit,

Ye cannot drink of the cup of the Lord, and of the cup of the devils. Ye can not be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.

he shall abstain from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine or of strong drink, nor drink whatsoever is pressed out of grapes: and shall eat no fresh grapes neither yet dried, as long as his abstinence endureth.

"Drink no wine nor strong drink - neither thou nor thy sons with thee - when ye go into the tabernacle of witness, lest ye die. And let it be a law forever unto your children after you:

The son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a glutton, and drinker of wine, and a friend unto publicans, and sinners. And neverthelater, wisdom is justified of her children."

It goeth down softly; but at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth as an adder.

Likewise must the deacons be honest, not double tongued, not given unto much drinking, neither unto filthy lucre:

and said unto her, "How long wilt thou be drunken? Put away from thee the wine that thou hast."

And he said unto me, 'Behold, thou shalt be with child and bear a son, and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing: for the lad shall be an abstainer to God even from his birth to the day of his death.'"

For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall neither drink wine nor strong drink. And he shall be filled with the holy ghost, even in his mother's womb:

For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace and joy, in the holy ghost.

The son of man is come, and eateth and drinketh, and ye say, 'Behold a man which is a glutton, and a drinker of wine, a friend of publicans and sinners.'

For as in the days before the flood: they did eat and drink, marry, and were married, even unto the day that Noah entered in to the ship,

envying, murder, drunkenness, gluttony, and such like. Of the which I tell you before, as I have told you in time past, that they which commit such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

For he that eateth or drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh his own damnation, because he maketh no difference of the Lord's body.

It is good neither to eat flesh, neither to drink wine, neither anything, whereby thy brother stumbleth, either falleth, or is made weak.

Look not thou upon the wine, how red it is, and what a color it giveth in the glass.

Where is woe? Where is sorrow? Where is strife? Where is brawling? Where are wounds without cause? Where be red eyes?

For it is sufficient for us that we have spent the time that is past of the life, after the will of the gentiles; walking in wantonness, lusts, drunkenness, in eating, drinking, and in abominable idolatry.