40 Bible Verses about alcoholism

It is not for kings, O Lemuel,
It is not for kings to drink wine,
Or for rulers to desire strong drink,

Let him drink and forget his poverty
And remember his trouble no more.

“Come,” they say, “let us get wine, and let us drink heavily of strong drink;
And tomorrow will be like today, only more so.”

Give strong drink to him who is perishing,
And wine to him whose life is bitter.

He drank of the wine and became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent.

“You shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “Drink, be drunk, vomit, fall and rise no more because of the sword which I will send among you.”’

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

You may spend the money for whatever your heart desires: for oxen, or sheep, or wine, or strong drink, or whatever your heart desires; and there you shall eat in the presence of the Lord your God and rejoice, you and your household.

For the heavy drinker and the glutton will come to poverty,
And drowsiness will clothe one with rags.

Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler,
And whoever is intoxicated by it is not wise.

Do not be with heavy drinkers of wine,
Or with gluttonous eaters of meat;

Woe to those who rise early in the morning that they may pursue strong drink,
Who stay up late in the evening that wine may inflame them!

Go then, eat your bread in happiness and drink your wine with a cheerful heart; for God has already approved your works.

They do not drink wine with song;
Strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.

But Hannah replied, “No, my lord, I am a woman oppressed in spirit; I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I have poured out my soul before the Lord.

When you eat and drink, do you not eat for yourselves and do you not drink for yourselves?

Now therefore, be careful not to drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing.

“Woe to you who make your neighbors drink,
Who mix in your venom even to make them drunk
So as to look on their nakedness!

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

It was the same as happened in the days of Lot: they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building;

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

And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, 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 abstain from wine and strong drink; he shall drink no vinegar, whether made from wine or strong drink, nor shall he drink any grape juice nor eat fresh or dried grapes.

“Do not drink wine or strong drink, neither you nor your sons with you, when you come into the tent of meeting, so that you will not die—it is a perpetual statute throughout your generations—

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.”

At the last it bites like a serpent
And stings like a viper.

Deacons likewise must be men of dignity, not double-tongued, or addicted to much wine or fond of sordid gain,

Then Eli said to her, “How long will you make yourself drunk? Put away your wine from you.”

But he said to me, ‘Behold, you shall conceive and give birth to a son, and now you shall not drink wine or strong drink nor eat any unclean thing, for the boy shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.’”

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord; and he will drink no wine or liquor, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit while yet in his mother’s womb.

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

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man 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 that Noah entered the ark,

envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

For he who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgment to himself if he does not judge the body rightly.

It is good not to eat meat or to drink wine, or to do anything by which your brother stumbles.

Do not look on the wine when it is red,
When it sparkles in the cup,
When it goes down smoothly;

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

For the time already past is sufficient for you to have carried out the desire of the Gentiles, having pursued a course of sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties and abominable idolatries.