40 Bible Verses about alcoholism
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It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:
Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
Come ye, say they, I will bring wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to-morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.
Give strong drink to him that is ready to perish, and wine to those that are of heavy hearts.
And he drank the wine, and was drunken, and he was uncovered within his tent.
Therefore thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and vomit, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake, and thy frequent infirmities.
And thou shalt bestow that money for whatever thy soul desireth, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thy household.
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived by it is not wise.
Woe to them that rise early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflameth them!
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drank 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 therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine, nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:
Woe to him that giveth his neighbor drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
Woe to them 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 is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of demons.
He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he 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 congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:
The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold, a man gluttonous, and a wine-bibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified by her children.
Likewise must the deacons be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre,
And Eli said to her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.
But he said to 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 his birth 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 wine-bibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.
For as in the days that were before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark,
Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like: of which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh condemnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.
It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing by which thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revelings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
