Alcohol Consumption

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in patience:

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

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

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 →

Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin; — read the full passage →

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.

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

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!’

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.

But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.

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!

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.

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.

“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!

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

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

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

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

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, — read the full passage →

Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

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

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

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

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 →

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

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 →

Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to cease from the wine presses: no one shall tread with shouting; the shouting shall be no shouting.

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.

“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.

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

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

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

Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,

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

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.

Others, mocking, said, “They are filled with new wine.”

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

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.”

Thus says Yahweh, “As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, ‘Don’t destroy it, for a blessing is in it:’ so will I do for my servants’ sake, that I may not destroy them all.

Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there will be no singing, neither joyful noise. Nobody will tread out wine in the presses. I have made the shouting stop.

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

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

Those who stay long at the wine; those who go to seek out mixed wine.

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

Jesus came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.

“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.

No man having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says, ‘The old is better.’”

The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

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

put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.

When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you; — read the full passage →

Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two bottles of wine, five sheep ready dressed, five measures of parched grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.

butter from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat. From the blood of the grape, you drank wine.

You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink; that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.

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.” — read the full passage →

You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes out of the field year by year. — read the full passage →

Its drink offering shall be the fourth part of a hin for the one lamb. You shall pour out a drink offering of strong drink to Yahweh in the holy place.

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 →

If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances, — read the full passage →

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

For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.

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,

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 →

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you? — read the full passage →

But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My lord delays his coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,

In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.

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

Bless Yahweh, my soul. Yahweh, my God, you are very great. You are clothed with honor and majesty. — read the full passage →

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.’”

“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?’

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

and made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on earth.”

and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father; to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.

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

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

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

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

Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.

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 John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’

Most certainly I tell you, I will no more drink of the fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it anew in the Kingdom of God.”

No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and the wine pours out, and the skins will be destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins.”

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.”

Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and rose up in haste: he spoke and said to his counselors, Didn’t we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered the king, True, O king.