191 Bible Verses about Drinking Alcohol
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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1 Timothy 3:2-3 NIV
2 Now the overseer is to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, 3 not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.
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Jeremiah 35:14 NIV
‘Jehonadab son of Rekab ordered his descendants not to drink wine and this command has been kept. To this day they do not drink wine, because they obey their forefather’s command. But I have spoken to you again and again, yet you have not obeyed me.
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Ecclesiastes 10:17 NIV
Blessed is the land whose king is of noble birth
and whose princes eat at a proper time—
for strength and not for drunkenness.
and whose princes eat at a proper time—
for strength and not for drunkenness.
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Amos 2:8 NIV
They lie down beside every altar
on garments taken in pledge.
In the house of their god
they drink wine taken as fines.
on garments taken in pledge.
In the house of their god
they drink wine taken as fines.
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Joel 1:5 NIV
Wake up, you drunkards, and weep!
Wail, all you drinkers of wine;
wail because of the new wine,
for it has been snatched from your lips.
Wail, all you drinkers of wine;
wail because of the new wine,
for it has been snatched from your lips.
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1 Peter 4:3-4 NIV
3 For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do—living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry. 4 They are surprised that you do not join them in their reckless, wild living, and they heap abuse on you.
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Ecclesiastes 2:3 NIV
I tried cheering myself with wine, and embracing folly —my mind still guiding me with wisdom. I wanted to see what was good for people to do under the heavens during the few days of their lives.
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2 Samuel 11:13 NIV
At David’s invitation, he ate and drank with him, and David made him drunk. But in the evening Uriah went out to sleep on his mat among his master’s servants; he did not go home.
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Deuteronomy 21:20 NIV
They shall say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”
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