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Want to know what the Bible says about Drinking Alcohol? Here are 191 Bible verses about Drinking Alcohol from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Isaiah 28:7-8 NIV
7 And these also stagger from wine
    and reel from beer:
Priests and prophets stagger from beer
    and are befuddled with wine;
they reel from beer,
    they stagger when seeing visions,
    they stumble when rendering decisions.
8 All the tables are covered with vomit
    and there is not a spot without filth.
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Habakkuk 2:5 NIV
indeed, wine betrays him;
    he is arrogant and never at rest.
Because he is as greedy as the grave
    and like death is never satisfied,
he gathers to himself all the nations
    and takes captive all the peoples.
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Isaiah 62:8-9 NIV
8 The Lord has sworn by his right hand
    and by his mighty arm:
“Never again will I give your grain
    as food for your enemies,
and never again will foreigners drink the new wine
    for which you have toiled;
9 but those who harvest it will eat it
    and praise the Lord,
and those who gather the grapes will drink it
    in the courts of my sanctuary.”
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Proverbs 23:33 NIV
Your eyes will see strange sights,
    and your mind will imagine confusing things.
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Luke 12:45 NIV
But suppose the servant says to himself, ‘My master is taking a long time in coming,’ and he then begins to beat the other servants, both men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk.
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Proverbs 23:34 NIV
You will be like one sleeping on the high seas,
    lying on top of the rigging.
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Deuteronomy 7:13 NIV
He will love you and bless you and increase your numbers. He will bless the fruit of your womb, the crops of your land—your grain, new wine and olive oil —the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you.
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Psalm 104:15 NIV
wine that gladdens human hearts,
    oil to make their faces shine,
    and bread that sustains their hearts.
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Hosea 7:5 NIV
On the day of the festival of our king
    the princes become inflamed with wine,
    and he joins hands with the mockers.
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Psalm 75:8 NIV
In the hand of the Lord is a cup
    full of foaming wine mixed with spices;
he pours it out, and all the wicked of the earth
    drink it down to its very dregs.
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