Bible Verses about βbeing drunkβ
The Bible contains 16 verses about being drunk across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
βEnvyings, 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.β
βΒΆ Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:β
βNor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.β
βAnd be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;β
βLet us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.β
βΒΆ Wine [is] a mocker, strong drink [is] raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.β
βDrink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.β
βBut 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.β
βAt the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.β
βWoe unto them that rise up early in the morning, [that] they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, [till] wine inflame them!β
βThine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.β
βΒΆ Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?β
βThey that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.β
βLook not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, [when] it moveth itself aright.β
βYea, 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.β
βThey 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.β
