Bible Verses About Strong Drink

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.

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.

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.

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.

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.

And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.

And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups, and I said unto them, Drink ye 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!

Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the Lord your God.

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:

Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.

Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

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

For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

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

Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.

And they gave them drink in vessels of gold, (the vessels being diverse one from another,) and royal wine in abundance, according to the state of the king.

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

And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?

And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.

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

Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

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

He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.

Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.

Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.

The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.

For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.

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.

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