Bible Verses About Wine And Drunkenness

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

wine and strong drink are foolish

Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:

woe against strong drinkers

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

wine with singing is rejected in judgment

And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

explicit NT command against drunkenness

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.

Nazarite abstinence

But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

repeats prophetic warning about strong drink

Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:

wine described as a traitor

Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

call to drunkards to weep

Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!

woe to those inflamed by wine

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

gluttony and wine in rebellious speech

Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

applies directly to drunkenness in Christian ethics

Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

unclear book/reference mismatch and low quality hit

Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.

warning not to look at wine when it sparkles

Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:

winebibbers warning

They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.

tarrying long over wine

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

little wine allowed for medicinal use

Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.

priest drinking restriction

Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.

young men exhorted to be sober-minded

That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.

older men be sober

And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;

temperance as virtue

Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;

not a drunkard

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

drunkard and glutton warning

Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

temperance as virtue

Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

live soberly

Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

be sober

But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;

sober-minded elder qualification

But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned and told,

woe against strong drinkers