Consuming Alcohol

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

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

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

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

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.

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

For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

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

The third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there. — 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.’”

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

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

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?

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — 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!’

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!

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

Israel dwells in safety; the fountain of Jacob alone, In a land of grain and new wine. Yes, his heavens drop down dew.

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.

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.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — 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.

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

This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work. — read the full passage →

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

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