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Want to know what the Bible says about Drunkenness? Here are 128 Bible verses about Drunkenness 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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Joel 1:5 NIV
Wake up, you drunkards, and weep!
    Wail, all you drinkers of wine;
wail because of the new wine,
    for it has been snatched from your lips.
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Micah 2:11 NIV
If a liar and deceiver comes and says,
    ‘I will prophesy for you plenty of wine and beer,’
    that would be just the prophet for this people!
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Proverbs 31:6 NIV
Let beer be for those who are perishing,
    wine for those who are in anguish!
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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.
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Isaiah 63:6 NIV
I trampled the nations in my anger;
    in my wrath I made them drunk
    and poured their blood on the ground.”
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2 Samuel 11:13 NIV
At David’s invitation, he ate and drank with him, and David made him drunk. But in the evening Uriah went out to sleep on his mat among his master’s servants; he did not go home.
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Numbers 6:3 NIV
they must abstain from wine and other fermented drink and must not drink vinegar made from wine or other fermented drink. They must not drink grape juice or eat grapes or raisins.
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1 Peter 2:11 NIV
Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul.
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1 Samuel 25:36 NIV
When Abigail went to Nabal, he was in the house holding a banquet like that of a king. He was in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing at all until daybreak.
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1 Peter 4:3-4 NIV
3 For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do—living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry. 4 They are surprised that you do not join them in their reckless, wild living, and they heap abuse on you.
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