Being Drunk

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.

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.

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!

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

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes? — 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.

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 →

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

Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.

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

“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!

Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish; and wine to the bitter in soul: — read the full passage →

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

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 →

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.

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

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

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!”

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 →

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

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.

“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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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 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,

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

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

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.

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.”

Yahweh has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in all of its works, like a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

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 →

When David had called him, he ate and drink before him; and he made him drunk. At evening, he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but didn’t go down to his house.

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

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.

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

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

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

“They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don’t feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I can find another.”

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not glorified.

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

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 →

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?

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

Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I poured out my soul before Yahweh.

The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires. — read the full passage →

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

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!

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 →

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! — read the full passage →

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

The Song of songs, which is Solomon’s. Beloved — read the full passage →

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

You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.”

They went out at noon. But Ben Hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings who helped him.

Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing things.

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

Take me away with you. Let us hurry. The king has brought me into his rooms. Friends We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine! Beloved They are right to love you.

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

Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters. — 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 →

Wine is a mocker, and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise. — read the full passage →

I trod down the peoples in my anger, and made them drunk in my wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.”

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 →

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

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.

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.

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 →