The Use Of Alcohol

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

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

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

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

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

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 →

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

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

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

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

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, — read the full passage →

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

Abstain from every form of evil.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

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.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

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

Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty.

The threshing floors will be full of wheat, and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.

Concerning the prophets. My heart within me is broken, all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of Yahweh, and because of his holy words.

“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.

In this mountain, Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of choice wines, of fat things full of marrow, of well refined choice wines.

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

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

so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.

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

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.

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

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

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

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;

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

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

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand, — read the full passage →

Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

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

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

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

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

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.

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 →

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

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

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

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. — read the full passage →

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

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 →

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

He received a cup, and when he had given thanks, he said, “Take this, and share it among yourselves,

Now there were some present at the same time who told him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. — 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.

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!’

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

He took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave to them. They all drank of it.

He took the cup, gave thanks, and gave to them, saying, “All of you drink it,

“Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a wine press in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.

I also tell you that you are Peter,and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hadeswill not prevail against it.

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.”

For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.

“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the one treading grapes him who sows seed; and sweet wine will drip from the mountains, and flow from the hills. — read the full passage →

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.

It will happen in that day, that the mountains will drop down sweet wine, the hills will flow with milk, all the brooks of Judah will flow with waters, and a fountain will flow out from Yahweh’s house, and will water the valley of Shittim.

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.

Yahweh answered his people, “Behold, I will send you grain, new wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied with them; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.

The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes.

Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols? I answer, and will take care of him. I am like a green fir tree; from me your fruit is found.”

Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my new wine in its season, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.

For she did not know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine into my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, until three whole weeks were fulfilled.

They tell their mothers, Where is grain and wine? When they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city, When their soul is poured out into their mothers’ bosom.

Babylon has been a golden cup in Yahweh’s hand, who made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.

Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to cease from the wine presses: no one shall tread with shouting; the shouting shall be no shouting.

They shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow to the goodness of Yahweh, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.

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

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 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!

You have shown your people hard things. You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.

You have put gladness in my heart, more than when their grain and their new wine are increased.

It fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house,

So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen. — read the full passage →

The king said to Esther at the banquet of wine, “What is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.”

In the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, I took up the wine, and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad before in his presence.

Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. — read the full passage →

After the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag; — read the full passage →

Eli said to her, “How long will you be drunken? Put away your wine from you.”

The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh; and Yahweh delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years. — read the full passage →

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.

that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.

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.