What Does The Bible  Say About Alcohol?

1. Genesis 9:21

Then he drank of the wine and was drunk, and became uncovered in his tent.

2. Genesis 27:28

Therefore, may God give you of the dew of heaven, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and wine.

3. Leviticus 10:9

 “Do not drink wine or intoxicating drink, you, nor your sons with you, when you go into the tabernacle of meeting, lest you die. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.

4. Numbers 6:3

He shall separate himself from wine and similar drink; he shall drink neither vinegar made from wine nor vinegar made from similar drink; neither shall he drink any grape juice, nor eat fresh grapes or raisins.

5. Deuteronomy 14:26

And you shall spend that money for whatever your heart desires: for oxen or sheep, for wine or similar drink, for whatever your heart desires; you shall eat there before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.

6. Judges 13:4

Now therefore, please be careful not to drink wine or similar drink, and not to eat anything unclean.

7. Judges 13:14

She may not eat anything that comes from the vine, nor may she drink wine or similar drink, nor eat anything unclean. All that I commanded her let her observe.

8. Psalms 104:14-15

He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and vegetation for the service of man, that he may bring forth food from the earth, and wine that makes glad the heart of man, oil to make his face shine, and bread which strengthens man’s heart.

9. Proverbs 20:1

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.

10. Proverbs 21:17

He who loves pleasure will be a poor man; He who loves wine and oil will not be rich.

11. Proverbs 23:20-21

Do not mix with winebibbers, or with gluttonous eaters of meat; for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.

12. Proverbs 23:31

Do not look on the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it swirls around smoothly.

13. Proverbs 31:4-5

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, It is not for kings to drink wine, nor for princes intoxicating drink; lest they drink and forget the law, and pervert the justice of all the afflicted.

14. Proverbs 31:6

Give strong drink to him who is perishing, and wine to those who are bitter of heart.

15. Ecclesiastes 9:7

Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.

16. Ecclesiastes 10:17

Blessed are you, O land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes feast at the proper time—for strength and not for drunkenness!

17. Isaiah 5:11

Woe to those who rise early in the morning, that they may follow intoxicating drink; who continue until night, till wine inflames them!

18. Isaiah 5:22

Woe to men mighty at drinking wine, woe to men valiant for mixing intoxicating drink.

19. Isaiah 24:9

They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.

20. Isaiah 25:6

And in this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all people a feast of choice pieces, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of well-refined wines on the lees.

21. Isaiah 28:7

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

22. Isaiah 29:9

Pause and wonder! Blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunk, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with intoxicating drink.

23. Isaiah 55:1

Ho! Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat. Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

24. Isaiah 62:8-9

The Lord has sworn by His right hand and by the arm of His strength: “Surely I will no longer give your grain as food for your enemies; and the sons of the foreigner shall not drink your new wine, for which you have laboured.  But those who have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the Lord; those who have brought it together shall drink it in My holy courts.”

25. Ezekiel 44:21

No priest shall drink wine when he enters the inner court.

26. Daniel 1:8

But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s delicacies, nor with the wine which he drank; therefore he requested of the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

27. Joel 1:5

Awake, you drunkards, and weep; and wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the new wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth.

28. Amos 9:14

I will bring back the captives of My people Israel; they shall build the waste cities and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them; they shall also make gardens and eat fruit from them.

29. Habakkuk 2:15

“Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbour, pressing him to your bottle, even to make him drunk, that you may look on his nakedness!

30. Matthew 11:18-19

 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’  The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look, a glutton and a winebibber, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”

31. Matthew 26:29

But I say to you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father’s kingdom.

32. Luke 7:34

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look, a glutton and a winebibber, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

33. Luke 21:34

But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly.

34. Romans 13:13

 Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy.

35. Romans 14:21

 It is good neither to eat meat nor drink wine nor do anything by which your brother stumbles or is offended or is made weak.

36. Ephesians 5:18

And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit.

37. 1 Peter 4:3

For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles—when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries.

38. 1 Timothy 3:8

Likewise, deacons must be reverent, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy for money.

39. 1 Timothy 5:23

 No longer drink only water but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities.

40. 1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites,  nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

41. Galatians 5:21

Envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

42. Titus 1:7

For a bishop must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money.

43. Titus 2:3

The older women, likewise, that they be reverent in behaviour, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things.

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