Bible Verses about “alcoholism”

“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.”

“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,”

“Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,”

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

“[It is] good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor [any thing] whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.”

“¶ Wine [is] a mocker, strong drink [is] raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.”

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

“‹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.”

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