What are some verses in the Bible that deal with alcohol?

[gigman7]

I'm looking for verses dealing with alcohol.

[another_poster]

Just wondering if there is a specific question or a reason for asking? Might help more with direction.

Essentially there is nothing in the bible that forbids drinking alcohol but clearly getting drunk is wrong. What is drunk? Is it feeling a bit light headed? Is it feeling a bit tipsy or not quite being able to walk in a straight line? Or is it something more?

 

Of course the best way to avoid getting drunk is to not drink in the first place. Some people are more prone to addictions or addictive behaviour. So for them drinking is a bad idea. 

[gigman7]

Just wondering if there is a specific question or a reason for asking? Might help more with direction.

Essentially there is nothing in the bible that forbids drinking alcohol but clearly getting drunk is wrong. What is drunk? Is it feeling a bit light headed? Is it feeling a bit tipsy or not quite being able to walk in a straight line? Or is it something more?

 

Of course the best way to avoid getting drunk is to not drink in the first place. Some people are more prone to addictions or addictive behaviour. So for them drinking is a bad idea. 

Actually, there are lots of places in the Bible that say not to drink at all.

[another_poster]

 

Just wondering if there is a specific question or a reason for asking? Might help more with direction.

Essentially there is nothing in the bible that forbids drinking alcohol but clearly getting drunk is wrong. What is drunk? Is it feeling a bit light headed? Is it feeling a bit tipsy or not quite being able to walk in a straight line? Or is it something more?

 

Of course the best way to avoid getting drunk is to not drink in the first place. Some people are more prone to addictions or addictive behaviour. So for them drinking is a bad idea. 

Actually, there are lots of places in the Bible that say not to drink at all.

 

Well I am always happy to be corrected. Care to mention any that instruct a blanket ban on drinking alcohol for everybody? Also care to explain other passages that would appear to contradict?

[gigman7]

 

 

Just wondering if there is a specific question or a reason for asking? Might help more with direction.

Essentially there is nothing in the bible that forbids drinking alcohol but clearly getting drunk is wrong. What is drunk? Is it feeling a bit light headed? Is it feeling a bit tipsy or not quite being able to walk in a straight line? Or is it something more?

 

Of course the best way to avoid getting drunk is to not drink in the first place. Some people are more prone to addictions or addictive behaviour. So for them drinking is a bad idea. 

Actually, there are lots of places in the Bible that say not to drink at all.

 

Well I am always happy to be corrected. Care to mention any that instruct a blanket ban on drinking alcohol for everybody? Also care to explain other passages that would appear to contradict?

 

Pr. 20:1 for start

 

Also, this article explains what seems to be contradictions.

http://lavistachurchofchrist.org/LVanswers/2008/04-10b.html

Edited July 14, 2014 by gigman7

[kwikphilly]

Blessings Gigman


Bible verses related to Alcohol from the King James Version

Ephesians 5:18 - And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

Proverbs 20:1 - Wine [is] a mocker, strong drink [is] raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

Proverbs 23:29-35 - Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? (Read More...)

Isaiah 5:22 - Woe unto [them that are] mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:

1 Timothy 5:23 - Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.

Leviticus 10:9 - Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: [it shall be] a statute for ever throughout your generations:

Romans 14:21 - [it is] good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor [any thing] whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.

1 Timothy 3:8 - Likewise [must] the deacons [be] grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

Hosea 4:11 - Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

Isaiah 5:11 - Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, [that] they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, [till] wine inflame them!

Luke 7:34 - The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!

Proverbs 31:6 - Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.

Numbers 6:3 - He shall separate [himself] from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.

Romans 13:13 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

Luke 21:34 - And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and [so] that day come upon you unawares.

Galatians 5:21 - Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

1 Corinthians 6:10 - Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.


Isaiah 28:7 - But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble [in] judgment.

1 Corinthians 5:11 - But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

Luke 1:15 - For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.

Proverbs 23:20-21 - Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: (Read More...)

Titus 2:3 - The aged women likewise, that [they be] in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 - 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 mankind, (Read More...)

Luke 7:33 - For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.

Habakkuk 2:15 - Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to [him], and makest [him] drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!

Ezekiel 44:21 - Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.

Proverbs 23:20 - Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:

Titus 1:7 - For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;

Daniel 1:8 - But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

Isaiah 28:7-8 - But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble [in] judgment. (Read More...)

Isaiah 5:22-23 - Woe unto [them that are] mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: (Read More...)

Proverbs 31:4 - [it is] not for kings, O Lemuel, [it is] not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:

Judges 13:4 - Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean [thing]:

Genesis 9:21 - And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 - What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? (Read More...)

1 Corinthians 3:17 - If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which [temple] ye are.

Matthew 11:19 - The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.

Isaiah 5:11-12 - Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, [that] they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, [till] wine inflame them! (Read More...)

Proverbs 21:17 - He that loveth pleasure [shall be] a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich

Deuteronomy 29:6 - Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I [am] the LORD your God.

Matthew 24:49 - And shall begin to smite [his] fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;

Isaiah 28:1 - Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty [is] a fading flower, which [are] on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!

                                                                                                                                                         With love-in Christ,Kwik

[gigman7]

Blessings Gigman

Bible verses related to Alcohol from the King James Version

 

                                                                                                                                                         With love-in Christ,Kwik

Thanks Kwik, You always come through for me.

[OakWood]

 

 

 

Just wondering if there is a specific question or a reason for asking? Might help more with direction.

Essentially there is nothing in the bible that forbids drinking alcohol but clearly getting drunk is wrong. What is drunk? Is it feeling a bit light headed? Is it feeling a bit tipsy or not quite being able to walk in a straight line? Or is it something more?

 

Of course the best way to avoid getting drunk is to not drink in the first place. Some people are more prone to addictions or addictive behaviour. So for them drinking is a bad idea. 

Actually, there are lots of places in the Bible that say not to drink at all.

 

Well I am always happy to be corrected. Care to mention any that instruct a blanket ban on drinking alcohol for everybody? Also care to explain other passages that would appear to contradict?

 

Pr. 20:1 for start

 

Also, this article explains what seems to be contradictions.

http://lavistachurchofchrist.org/LVanswers/2008/04-10b.html

 

 

This article is just full of assumptions. For example Noah drank wine in Genesis and it made him drunk, yet when Timothy is advised to drink wine, it is claimed in this article that 'wine' simply refers to unfermented wine juice. It does explain this by stating that the word 'wine' can have different meanings but who is to know what meanings apply and when?

It feels like an article of selected cherry-pickings written by somebody whose motive is to prove a point first and then manipulate scripture to prove that point, rather than working the other way round.

I feel that the author is thoroughly against alcohol and is claiming somewhere along the line that Bible translators got it wrong and have been mis-translating for centuries.

[kwikphilly]

Blessings Gigman...

     The Lord always comes through for you my Brother,I just type it out -lol  "Glory to God"                           With love-in Christ,Kwik

Anytime,my pleasure....God Bless you!                               

[gigman7]

 

 

 

 

Just wondering if there is a specific question or a reason for asking? Might help more with direction.

Essentially there is nothing in the bible that forbids drinking alcohol but clearly getting drunk is wrong. What is drunk? Is it feeling a bit light headed? Is it feeling a bit tipsy or not quite being able to walk in a straight line? Or is it something more?

 

Of course the best way to avoid getting drunk is to not drink in the first place. Some people are more prone to addictions or addictive behaviour. So for them drinking is a bad idea. 

Actually, there are lots of places in the Bible that say not to drink at all.

 

Well I am always happy to be corrected. Care to mention any that instruct a blanket ban on drinking alcohol for everybody? Also care to explain other passages that would appear to contradict?

 

Pr. 20:1 for start

 

Also, this article explains what seems to be contradictions.

http://lavistachurchofchrist.org/LVanswers/2008/04-10b.html

 

 

This article is just full of assumptions. For example Noah drank wine in Genesis and it made him drunk, yet when Timothy is advised to drink wine, it is claimed in this article that 'wine' simply refers to unfermented wine juice. It does explain this by stating that the word 'wine' can have different meanings but who is to know what meanings apply and when?

It feels like an article of selected cherry-pickings written by somebody whose motive is to prove a point first and then manipulate scripture to prove that point, rather than working the other way round.

I feel that the author is thoroughly against alcohol and is claiming somewhere along the line that Bible translators got it wrong and have been mis-translating for centuries.

 

Judges 13:4

So be careful; you must not drink wine or any other alcoholic drink

 

Proverbs 31:4

And it is not for kings, O Lemuel, to drink wine and whiskey.

 

Ezekiel 44:21

Neither shall any of the priests drink wine

 

Luke 1:15

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink. He will also be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

 

Numbers 6:3

he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of fermented drink