Drinking

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

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 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 →

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. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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.

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

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

“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.

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

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

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 look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.

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

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

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 →

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 →

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

“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.

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

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!

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

“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!

“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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.”

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.

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

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

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.’”

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

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.

“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.

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.”

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.

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

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

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 →

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!

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

“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.”

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

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

You are filled with shame, and not glory. You will also drink, and be exposed! The cup of Yahweh’s right hand will come around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory.

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

I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.

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 →

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 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.

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him. — read the full passage →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. A haughty man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.

and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.

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.

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.

Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.

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

The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons, not to drink wine, are performed; and to this day they drink none, for they obey their father’s commandment: but I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking; and you have not listened to me.

The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden under foot.

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!

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 →

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

In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha began to reign over Israel in Tirzah for two years. — read the full passage →

Absalom commanded his servants, saying, “Mark now, when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine; and when I tell you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Haven’t I commanded you? Be courageous, and be valiant!” — 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.

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.

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 →

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

A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes the life glad; and money is the answer for all things.

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. — 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;

so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober. — read the full passage →

Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.

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

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.

but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

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!’

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

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. — read the full passage →

promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

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

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