Drunkenness: General Scriptures Concerning

…and say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he does not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”

Then all the men of his city will stone him to death. So you must purge the evil from among you, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.

…because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry. …

…and said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Put away your wine!”

Those who sit at the gate mock me, and I am the song of drunkards.

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

He who loves pleasure will become poor; the one who loves wine and oil will never be rich.

Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat.

For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes? …

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to crave strong drink, …

Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine.

At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands.

Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine and champions in mixing strong drink,

The LORD has poured into her a spirit of confusion. Egypt has been led astray in all she does, as a drunkard staggers through his own vomit.

They no longer sing and drink wine; strong drink is bitter to those who consume it.

In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land.

Woe to the majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards, to the fading flower of his glorious splendor, set on the summit above the fertile valley, the pride of those overcome by wine.

The majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards will be trampled underfoot.

These also stagger from wine and stumble from strong drink: Priests and prophets reel from strong drink and are befuddled by wine. They stumble because of strong drink, muddled in their visions and stumbling in their judgments.

For all their tables are covered with vomit; there is not a place without filth.

“Come, let me get the wine, let us imbibe the strong drink, and tomorrow will be like today, only far better!”

“Then you are to tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Drink, get drunk, and vomit. Fall down and never get up again, because of the sword I will send among you.’

…to promiscuity, wine, and new wine, which take away understanding.

The princes are inflamed with wine on the day of our king; so he joins hands with those who mock him.

They do not cry out to Me from their hearts when they wail upon their beds. They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from Me.

Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth.

They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.

They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines.

“But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.

Woe to those at ease in Zion and those secure on Mount Samaria, the distinguished ones of the foremost nation, to whom the house of Israel comes.

You drink wine by the bowlful and anoint yourselves with the finest oils, but you fail to grieve over the ruin of Joseph.

If a man of wind were to come and say falsely, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” he would be just the preacher for this people!

For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard—like stubble that is fully dry.

Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin until they are drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness! …

And he begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards.

But suppose that servant says in his heart, ‘My master will be a long time in coming,’ and he begins to beat the menservants and maidservants, and to eat and drink and get drunk.

But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.

Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.

The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; …

Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.

For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.

But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and the helmet of our hope of salvation.