Bible Verses about “alcohol abuse”
The Bible contains 27 verses about alcohol abuse across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?”
“For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.”
“Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”
“¶ Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,”
“¶ Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:”
“Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.”
“And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;”
“Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.”
“If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which [temple] ye are.”
“¶ Wine [is] a mocker, strong drink [is] raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.”
“¶ Likewise [must] the deacons [be] grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;”
“Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.”
“But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.”
“‹And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and› [so] ‹that day come upon you unawares.›”
“At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.”
“Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, [that] they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, [till] wine inflame them!”
“Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.”
“¶ Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?”
“They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.”
“Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, [when] it moveth itself aright.”
“Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.”
“They have stricken me, [shalt thou say, and] I was not sick; they have beaten me, [and] I felt [it] not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.”
“¶ The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but [he that is] cruel troubleth his own flesh.”
“Woe unto [them that are] mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:”
“¶ He that loveth pleasure [shall be] a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.”
“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.”
“¶ Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty [is] a fading flower, which [are] on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!”