Alcohol

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

Wine is a mocker, and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities.

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes? — read the full passage →

It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!

Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at mixing strong drink;

envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money;

He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may produce food out of the earth: — read the full passage →

Go your way—eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →

Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat: — read the full passage →

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit the Kingdom of God.

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

“You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or you will die. This shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.

“Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’ — read the full passage →

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.

It is not for kings, Lemuel; it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes to say, ‘Where is strong drink?’ — read the full passage →

he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of fermented drink, neither shall he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried.

Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

It is not for kings, Lemuel; it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes to say, ‘Where is strong drink?’

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

“Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!

He who loves pleasure shall be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil shall not be rich.

Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish; and wine to the bitter in soul:

Now therefore please beware and drink no wine nor strong drink, and don’t eat any unclean thing:

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which you are.

For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

The third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there. — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

Don’t look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.

He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent.

Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →

But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king’s dainties, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward; not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

In this mountain, Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of choice wines, of fat things full of marrow, of well refined choice wines. — read the full passage →

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching; — read the full passage →

God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more. — read the full passage →

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →

You shall trade the money for whatever your soul desires, for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you; and you shall eat there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.

and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine until now!”

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no wine.” — read the full passage →

Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.

Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died. — read the full passage →

Don’t look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly. — read the full passage →

Neither do people put new wine into old wine skins, or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved.”

Yahweh has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, “Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies; and foreigners shall not drink your new wine, for which you have labored: — read the full passage →

In this mountain, Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of choice wines, of fat things full of marrow, of well refined choice wines.

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up. — read the full passage →

I will bring my people Israel back from captivity, and they will rebuild the ruined cities, and inhabit them; and they will plant vineyards, and drink wine from them. They shall also make gardens, and eat their fruit.

but he said to me, ‘Behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.’”

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them! — read the full passage →

But I tell you that I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on, until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father’s Kingdom.”

Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

But if that evil servant should say in his heart, ‘My lord is delaying his coming,’ — read the full passage →

Pause and wonder! Blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

Happy are you, land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

She may not eat of anything that comes of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing; all that I commanded her let her observe.”

Then Yahweh said to Aaron, — read the full passage →

They shall tell 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.”

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

They will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it.

so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.

For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries. — read the full passage →

He will love you, bless you, multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit, — read the full passage →

The threshing floors will be full of wheat, and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.

and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards,

They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment. — read the full passage →

Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at mixing strong drink; — read the full passage →

and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

wine that makes glad the heart of man, oil to make his face to shine, and bread that strengthens man’s heart.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

“The vine said to them, ‘Should I leave my new wine, which cheers God and man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’