Bible Verses about “strong drink”
The Bible contains 25 verses about strong drink 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.”
“¶ 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,”
“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;”
“[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.”
“¶ 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.”
“¶ For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only [use] not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.”
“Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.”
“Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.”
“[It is] not for kings, O Lemuel, [it is] not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:”
“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.”
“And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household,”
“¶ 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.”
“Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.”
“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!”