Drinking Alcoholic Beverages

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

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

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

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

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

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.

“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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Therefore prepare your minds for action, be sober and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

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;

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit, — read the full passage →

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

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

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 →

This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

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!”

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

He said to the disciples, “It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come! — read the full passage →

Neither do people put new wine into old wine skins, or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved.”

with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality, and those who dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her sexual immorality.”

he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger. He will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.

Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

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

in all things showing yourself an example of good works; in your teaching showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; — read the full passage →

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

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

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

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. — read the full passage →

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

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,

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

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

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

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

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

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.’

Since many have undertaken to set in order a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us, — read the full passage →

As they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks for it, and broke it. He gave to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.” — read the full passage →

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

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’

“You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men. — read the full passage →