Drinking Alcoholic Beverages

Be no longer a drinker of water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.

And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit;

no brawler, no striker; but gentle, not contentious, no lover of money;

And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there: — read the full passage →

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

envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

But take heed to yourselves, lest haply your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come on you suddenly as a snare:

Deacons in like manner must be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries:

For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and he shall drink no wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy.

It is good not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything whereby thy brother stumbleth.

Wherefore girding up the loins of your mind, be sober and set your hope perfectly on the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

For the bishop must be blameless, as God’s steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, no brawler, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre;

And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit; — read the full passage →

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children;

But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to the weak.

Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men, — read the full passage →

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

and saith unto him, Every man setteth on first the good wine; and when men have drunk freely, then that which is worse: thou hast kept the good wine until now.

And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there: — read the full passage →

And he said unto his disciples, It is impossible but that occasions of stumbling should come; but woe unto him, through whom they come! — read the full passage →

Neither do men put new wine into old wine-skins: else the skins burst, and the wine is spilled, and the skins perish: but they put new wine into fresh wine-skins, and both are preserved.

with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and they that dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her fornication.

he also shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:

Every one that doeth sin doeth also lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.

as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; wherein are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unstedfast wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

in all things showing thyself an ensample of good works; in thy doctrine showing uncorruptness, gravity,

Rebuke not an elder, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brethren: — read the full passage →

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

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.

For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage. — read the full passage →

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

Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own;

Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

But him that is weak in faith receive ye, yet not for decision of scruples. — read the full passage →

But others mocking said, They are filled with new wine.

The thief cometh not, but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy: I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there: — read the full passage →

and came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on them oil and wine; and he set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

For John the Baptist is come eating no bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a demon.

Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to draw up a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us, — read the full passage →

And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it; and he gave to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. — read the full passage →

and shall begin to beat his fellow-servants, and shall eat and drink with the drunken;

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a demon.

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under foot of men. — read the full passage →