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Drunkenness: General Scriptures Concerning Deuteronomy 21:20, 21

and say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he does not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.” / Then all the men of his city will stone him to death. So you must purge the evil from among you, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.

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Drunkenness: General Scriptures Concerning Deuteronomy 29:19–21

because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry. / The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven / and single him out from all the tribes of Israel for disaster, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.

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Drunkenness: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Samuel 1:14

and said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Put away your wine!”

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Drunkenness: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 69:12

Those who sit at the gate mock me, and I am the song of drunkards.

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Drunkenness: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 20:1

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

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Drunkenness: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 21:17

He who loves pleasure will become poor; the one who loves wine and oil will never be rich.

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Drunkenness: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 23:20, 21, 29–35

Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat. / For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags. / Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes?

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Drunkenness: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 31:4–7

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to crave strong drink, / lest they drink and forget what is decreed, depriving all the oppressed of justice. / Give strong drink to one who is perishing, and wine to the bitter in soul.

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Drunkenness: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 5:11, 12, 22

Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine. / At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands. / Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine and champions in mixing strong drink,

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Drunkenness: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 19:14

The LORD has poured into her a spirit of confusion. Egypt has been led astray in all she does, as a drunkard staggers through his own vomit.

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Drunkenness: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 24:9, 11

They no longer sing and drink wine; strong drink is bitter to those who consume it. / In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land.

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Drunkenness: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 28:1, 3, 7, 8

Woe to the majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards, to the fading flower of his glorious splendor, set on the summit above the fertile valley, the pride of those overcome by wine. / The majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards will be trampled underfoot. / These also stagger from wine and stumble from strong drink: Priests and prophets reel from strong drink and are befuddled by wine. They stumble because of strong drink, muddled in their visions and stumbling in their judgments.

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Drunkenness: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 56:12

“Come, let me get the wine, let us imbibe the strong drink, and tomorrow will be like today, only far better!”

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Drunkenness: General Scriptures Concerning Jeremiah 25:27

“Then you are to tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Drink, get drunk, and vomit. Fall down and never get up again, because of the sword I will send among you.’

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Drunkenness: General Scriptures Concerning Hosea 4:11

Promiscuity, wine, and new wine take away understanding.

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Drunkenness: General Scriptures Concerning Hosea 7:5, 14

The princes are inflamed with wine on the day of our king; so he joins hands with those who mock him. / They do not cry out to Me from their hearts when they wail upon their beds. They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from Me.

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Drunkenness: General Scriptures Concerning Joel 1:5

Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth.

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Drunkenness: General Scriptures Concerning Joel 3:3

They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.

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Drunkenness: General Scriptures Concerning Amos 2:8, 12

They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines. / “But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.

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Drunkenness: General Scriptures Concerning Amos 6:1, 6

Woe to those at ease in Zion and those secure on Mount Samaria, the distinguished ones of the foremost nation, to whom the house of Israel comes. / You drink wine by the bowlful and anoint yourselves with the finest oils, but you fail to grieve over the ruin of Joseph.

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Drunkenness: General Scriptures Concerning Micah 2:11

If a man of wind were to come and say falsely, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” he would be just the preacher for this people!

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Drunkenness: General Scriptures Concerning Nahum 1:10

For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard—like stubble that is fully dry.

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Drunkenness: General Scriptures Concerning Habakkuk 2:15–17

Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin until they are drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness! / You will be filled with shame instead of glory. You too must drink and expose your uncircumcision! The cup in the LORD’s right hand will come around to you, and utter disgrace will cover your glory. / For your violence against Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of animals will terrify you, because of your bloodshed against men and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers.

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Drunkenness: General Scriptures Concerning Matthew 24:49

And he begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards.

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Drunkenness: General Scriptures Concerning Luke 12:45

But suppose that servant says in his heart, ‘My master will be a long time in coming,’ and he begins to beat the menservants and maidservants, and to eat and drink and get drunk.

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Drunkenness: General Scriptures Concerning Luke 21:34

But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.

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Drunkenness: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 13:13

Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.

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Drunkenness: General Scriptures Concerning Galatians 5:19–21

The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; / idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, / and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

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Drunkenness: General Scriptures Concerning Ephesians 5:18

Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.

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Drunkenness: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Thessalonians 5:7, 8

For those who sleep, sleep at night; and those who get drunk, get drunk at night. / But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and the helmet of our hope of salvation.

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