Alcohol

Alcohol, usually wine or strong drink, appears throughout the Bible. This page lists the warnings against drunkenness and the other verses that mention wine.

Warnings against drunkenness

• Ephesians 5:18
  And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
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• Proverbs 20:1
  Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
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• Proverbs 23:29-32
  ²⁹Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? ³⁰They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. ³¹Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. ³²At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
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• Isaiah 5:11
  Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
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• Romans 13:13
  Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
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• Galatians 5:19-21
  ¹⁹Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, ²⁰Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, ²¹Envyings, 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.
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Leaders

• Proverbs 31:4-5
  ⁴It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink: ⁵Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
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• 1 Timothy 3:2-3
  ²A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; ³Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
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• Titus 1:7
  For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
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Wine in Scripture

• Psalm 104:14-15
  ¹⁴He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; ¹⁵And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man’s heart.
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• John 2:9-10
  ⁹When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom, ¹⁰And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now.
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• 1 Timothy 5:23
  Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.
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Causing others to stumble

• Romans 14:21
  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.
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See also

• Sin

Notes

1. Verses are quoted in the translation chosen in the Translation menu at the top of the page. See Translations for sources and copyright notices.
2. Each reference links to the full chapter so the verse can be read in context.