- Genesis 9:20-26 - Noah became drunk; the result
was immorality and family trouble.
- Genesis 19:30-38 - Lot was so drunk he did not
know what he was doing; this led to immorality
- Leviticus 10:9-11 - God commanded priests not to
drink so that they could tell the difference between
the holy and the unholy.
- Numbers 6:3 - The Nazarites were told to eat or
drink nothing from the grape vine.
- Deuteronomy 21:20 - A drunken son was stubborn
and rebellious.
- Deuteronomy 29:5-6 - God gave no grape juice to
Israel nor did they have intoxicating drink in the
wilderness.
- Deuteronomy 32:33 - Intoxicating wine is like the
poison of serpents, the cruel venom of asps.
- Judges 13:4, 7, 14 - Samson was to be a Nazarite
for life. His mother was told not to drink wine or
strong drink.
- 1 Samuel 1:14-15 - Accused, Hannah said she
drank no wine.
- 1 Samuel 25:32-38 - Nabal died after a drunken
spree.
- 2 Samuel 11:13 - By getting Uriah drunk, David
hoped to cover his sin.
- 2 Samuel 13:28-29 - Amnon was drunk when he
was killed.
- 1 Kings 16:8-10 - The king was drinking himself
into drunkenness when he was assassinated
- 1 Kings 20:12-21 - Ben-Hadad and 32 other kings
were drinking when they were attacked and defeated
by the Israelites.
- Esther 1:5-12 - The king gave each one all the
drink he wanted. The king was intoxicated when he
commanded the queen to come.
- Psalm 75:8 - The Lord’s anger is pictured as
mixed wine poured out and drunk by the wicked.
- Proverbs 4:17 - Alcoholic drink is called the wine
of violence.
- Proverbs 20:1 - Wine is a mocker, strong drink is
raging.
- Proverbs 23:19-20 - A wise person will not be
among the drinkers of alcoholic beverages.
- Proverbs 23:21 - Drunkenness causes poverty.
- Proverbs 23:29-30 - Drinking causes woe, sorrow,
fighting, babbling, wounds without cause and red
eyes.
- Proverbs 23:31 - God instructs not to look at
intoxicating drinks.
- Proverbs 23:32 - Alcoholic drinks bite like a
serpent, sting like an adder.
- Proverbs 23:33 - Alcohol causes the drinker to
have strange and adulterous thoughts, produces
willfulness, and prevents reformation.
- Proverbs 23:34 - Alcohol makes the drinker
unstable
- Proverbs 23:35 - Alcohol makes the drinker
insensitive to pain so he does not perceive it as a
warning. Alcohol is habit forming.
- Proverb 31:4-5 - Kings, Princes, and others who
rule and judge must not drink alcohol. Alcohol
perverts good judgment.
- Proverbs 31:6-7 - Strong drink could be given to
those about to perish or those in pain. Better
anesthetics are available today.
- Ecclesiastes 2:3 - The king tried everything,
including intoxicating drink, to see if it satisfied. It
did not. (Ecclesiastes 12:8)
- Ecclesiastes 10:17 - A land is blessed when its
leaders do not drink.
- Isaiah 5:11-12 - Woe to those who get up early to
drink and stay up late at night to get drunk.
- Isaiah 5:22 - Woe to "champion" drinkers and
"experts" at mixing drinks.
- Isaiah 19:14 - Drunken men stagger in their
vomit.
- Isaiah 22:12-13 - The Israelites choose to drink;
their future looks hopeless to them.
- Isaiah 24:9 - Drinkers cannot escape the
consequences when God judges.
- Isaiah 28:1 - God pronounces woe on the
drunkards of Ephraim.
- Isaiah 28:3 - Proud drunkards shall be trodden
down.
- Isaiah 28:7 - Priests and prophets stagger and
reel from beer and wine, err in vision, and stumble
in judgment.
- Isaiah 28:8 - Drinkers’ tables are covered with
vomit and filth.
- Isaiah 56:9-12 - Drinkers seek their own gain and
expect tomorrow to be just like today.
- Jeremiah 35:2-14 - The Rechabites drank no
grape juice or intoxicating wine and were blessed.
- Ezekiel 44:21 - Again God instructed the priests
not to drink wine.
- Daniel 1:5-17 - Daniel refused the king’s
intoxicating wine and was blessed for it along with his
abstaining friends.
- Daniel 5:1 - Belshazzar, ruler of Babylon; led his
people in drinking.
- Daniel 5:2-3 - The king, along with his nobles,
wives, and concubines, drank from the goblets which
had been taken from God’s temple.
- Daniel 5:4 - Drinking wine was combined with
praising false gods.
- Daniel 5:23 - God sent word to Belshazzar that
punishment would be swift for the evil he had
committed.
- Hosea 4:11 - Intoxicating wine takes away
intelligence.
- Hosea 7:5 - God reproves princes for drinking.
- Joel 1:5 - Drunkards awake to see God’s
judgment.
- Joel 3:3 - The enemy is judged for selling girls for
wine.
- Amos 2:8 - Unrighteous acts of Israel included
the drinking of wine which had been taken for the
payment of fines.
- Amos 2:12 - Israel is condemned for forcing
Nazarites to drink wine.
- Micah 2:11 - Israelites are eager to follow false
teachers who prophesy plenty of intoxicating drinks.
- Nahum 1:10 - The drunkards of Nineveh will be
destroyed by God.
- Habakkuk 2:5 - A man is betrayed by wine.
- Habakkuk 2:15 - Woe to him that gives his
neighbor drink.
- Habakkuk 2:16 - Drinking leads to shame.
- Matthew 24:48-51 - A drinking servant is
unprepared for his Lord’s return.
- Luke 1:15 - John the Baptist drank neither grape
juice nor wine.
- Luke 12:45 - Christ warned against drunkenness.
- Luke 21:34 - Drunkenness will cause a person not
to be ready for the Lord’s return.
- Romans 13:13 - Do not walk in drunkenness or
immorality.
- Romans 14:21 - Do not do anything that will hurt
your testimony as a believer.
- 1 Corinthians 5:11 - If a Christian brother is a
drinker, do not associate with him.
- 1 Corinthians 6:10 - Drunkards will not inherit the
kingdom of God
- Galatians 5:21 - Acts of the sinful nature, such as
drunkenness, will prohibit a person from inheriting
the kingdom of God.
- Ephesians 5:18 - In contrast to being drunk with
wine, the believer is to be filled with the Spirit.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:6-7 - Christians are to be alert
and self-controlled, belonging to the day. Drunkards
belong to the night and darkness.
- 1 Timothy 3:2-3 - Bishops (elders) are to be
temperate, sober, and not near any wine.
- 1 Timothy 3:8 - Deacons are to be worthy of
respect and not drinkers.
- 1 Timothy 3:11 - Deacons’ wives are to be
temperate and sober.
- Titus 1:7-8 - An overseer is to be disciplined.
- Titus 2:2-3 - The older men and older women of
the church are to be temperate and not addicted to
wine.
- 1 Peter 4:3-4 - The past life of drunkenness and
carousing has no place in the Christian’s life.
NO DRUNKARD SHALL INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF
GOD 1 COR 6,10.
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