Bible Verses About Drunkenness

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

Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:

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!

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.

For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.

Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!

Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.

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.

The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.

And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.

They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.

They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

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

And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.

For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

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.

And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;

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.

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

Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!

If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.

They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.

Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the Lord: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.

What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end.

Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David’s throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.

Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:

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

They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?

For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.

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

Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet: