Being Drunk

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

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

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

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

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

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

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!”

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.

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

“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.

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

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.

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,

For those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

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;

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

“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.

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

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

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 →

“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 →

For these aren’t drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is only the third hour of the day.

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 →

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

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

gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

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,

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

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 →

so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.

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

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; — read the full passage →

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.”

Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

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