78 Bible Verses about Drinking
Want to know what the Bible says about Drinking? Here are 78 Bible verses about Drinking from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.
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Matthew 24:48-51 NIV
48 But suppose that servant is wicked and says to himself, ‘My master is staying away a long time,’ 49 and he then begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards. 50 The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. 51 He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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1 Corinthians 10:23-24 NIV
23 “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but not everything is constructive. 24 No one should seek their own good, but the good of others.
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Proverbs 31:6 NIV
Let beer be for those who are perishing,
wine for those who are in anguish!
wine for those who are in anguish!
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Isaiah 29:9 NIV
Be stunned and amazed,
blind yourselves and be sightless;
be drunk, but not from wine,
stagger, but not from beer.
blind yourselves and be sightless;
be drunk, but not from wine,
stagger, but not from beer.
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Ecclesiastes 2:3 NIV
I tried cheering myself with wine, and embracing folly —my mind still guiding me with wisdom. I wanted to see what was good for people to do under the heavens during the few days of their lives.
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1 Timothy 3:2-3 NIV
2 Now the overseer is to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, 3 not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.
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Amos 2:8 NIV
They lie down beside every altar
on garments taken in pledge.
In the house of their god
they drink wine taken as fines.
on garments taken in pledge.
In the house of their god
they drink wine taken as fines.
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Proverbs 21:17 NIV
Whoever loves pleasure will become poor;
whoever loves wine and olive oil will never be rich.
whoever loves wine and olive oil will never be rich.
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Isaiah 28:3 NIV
That wreath, the pride of Ephraim’s drunkards,
will be trampled underfoot.
will be trampled underfoot.
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