Bible Verses about “drinking”
The Bible contains 24 verses about drinking across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“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.”
“¶ 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.”
“[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.”
“But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to [fulfil] the lusts [thereof].”
“¶ Wine [is] a mocker, strong drink [is] raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.”
“For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,”
“The aged women likewise, that [they be] in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;”
“Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.”
“Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.”
“‹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.›”
“For the time past of [our] life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:”
“Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.”
“At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.”
“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 Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.›”
“‹For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil.›”