Drinking alcohol

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• Proverbs 20:1

  Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

• Ephesians 5:18

  And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

• 1 Timothy 5:23

  Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.

• Galatians 5:21

  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.

• Proverbs 23:29–35

  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. …

• 1 Peter 5:8

  Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

• 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!

• 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.

• Ecclesiastes 9:7

  Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.

• Isaiah 5:22

  Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:

• Galatians 5:19–21

  Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 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.

• 1 Corinthians 6:10

  Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

• 1 Timothy 3:8

  Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

• Proverbs 23:20–21

  Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

• Leviticus 10:9

  Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:

• Psalms 104:14–15

  He 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; And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.

• 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.

• Matthew 11:18–19

  For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil. 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.

• Proverbs 23:31

  Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.

• 1 Corinthians 6:12

  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.

• Luke 21:34

  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.

• Proverbs 21:17

  He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

• Numbers 6:3

  He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.

• Judges 13:4

  Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:

• John 2:1–11

  And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there: And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage. And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine. …

• Proverbs 31:4–5

  It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink: Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

• Proverbs 31:4

  It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:

• Habakkuk 2:15

  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!

• Isaiah 55:1

  Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

• Luke 1:15

  For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.

• Hosea 4:11

  Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

• Isaiah 28:7

  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.

• Judges 13:7

  But he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death.

• 1 Corinthians 10:31

  Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

• Proverbs 23:29–30

  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.

• 1 Peter 4:3

  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:

• 1 Corinthians 5:11

  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.

• Deuteronomy 14:26

  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,

• Proverbs 31:6

  Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.

• 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;