Bible Verses about “drinking and smoking”
The Bible contains 48 verses about drinking and smoking across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
“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.”
“¶ Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:”
“Love not the world, neither the things [that are] in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.”
“Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.”
“For all that [is] in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.”
“And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;”
“And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.”
“‹Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.›”
“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.”
“¶ All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.”
“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
“For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,”
“‹If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.›”
“‹This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.›”
“Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;”
“‹Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and› [that] ‹your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.›”
“‹I am the vine, ye› [are] ‹the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.›”
“‹If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.›”
“Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.”
“¶ ‹If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before› [it hated] ‹you.›”
“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.”
“‹Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.›”
“‹Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.›”
“‹Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.›”
“‹Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.›”
“‹These things I command you, that ye love one another.›”
“‹Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.›”
“‹Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every› [branch] ‹that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.›”
“¶ ‹I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.›”
“‹Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.›”
“‹If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast› [them] ‹into the fire, and they are burned.›”
“¶ ‹As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.›”
“‹But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.›”
“¶ ‹But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father,› [even] ‹the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:›”
“‹If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.›”
“‹He that hateth me hateth my Father also.›”
“Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, [that] they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, [till] wine inflame them!”
“‹These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and› [that] ‹your joy might be full.›”
“‹If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.›”
“‹If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.›”
“‹But› [this cometh to pass], ‹that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.›”
“‹And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.›”
“Woe unto [them that are] mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:”
“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 unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to [him], and makest [him] drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!”