Nave’s Topical Bible
Drunkenness
51 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- General scriptures concerning
Deuteronomy 21:20-21; Deuteronomy 29:19-21; 1 Samuel 1:14; Psalms 69:12; Proverbs 20:1; Proverbs 21:17; Proverbs 23:20-21,29-35; Proverbs 31:4-7; Isaiah 5:11-12,22; Isaiah 19:14; Isaiah 24:9,11; Isaiah 28:1,3,7-8; Isaiah 56:12; Jeremiah 25:27; Hosea 4:11; Hosea 7:5,14; Joel 1:5; Joel 3:3; Amos 2:8,12; Amos 6:1,6; Micah 2:11; Nahum 1:10; Habakkuk 2:15-17; Matthew 24:49; Luke 12:45; Luke 21:34; Romans 13:13; Galatians 5:19-21; Ephesians 5:18; 1 Thessalonians 5:7-8
- FIGURATIVE
Psalms 73:10; Psalms 75:8; Isaiah 28:8; Isaiah 51:17,21-23; Isaiah 63:6; Jeremiah 25:15-16,27-28; Jeremiah 51:7-9; Lamentations 3:15; Ezekiel 23:31-34; Habakkuk 2:15-16
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- INSTANCES OF
- Noah
- Lot
- Nabal
- Uriah
- Elah
- Ben-hadad and his thirty-two confederate kings
- Ahasuerus
- Belshazzar
- FALSELY ACCUSED OF
- Hannah
- Jesus
- The Apostles
Bible verses about “Drunkenness”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Deuteronomy 21:20And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
- Deuteronomy 21:21And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
- Deuteronomy 29:19And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
- Deuteronomy 29:20The Lord will not spare him, but then the anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven.
- Deuteronomy 29:21And the Lord shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:
- 1 Samuel 1:14And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.
- Psalms 69:12They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
- Proverbs 20:1Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
- Proverbs 21:17He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.
- Proverbs 23:20Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
- Proverbs 23:21For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
- Proverbs 23:29Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
- Proverbs 23:30They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
- Proverbs 23:31Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
- Proverbs 23:32At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
- Proverbs 23:33Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
- Proverbs 23:34Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
- Proverbs 23:35They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
- Proverbs 31:4It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:
- Proverbs 31:5Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
- Proverbs 31:6Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.
- Proverbs 31:7Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
- Isaiah 5:11Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
- Isaiah 5:12And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands.
- Isaiah 5:22Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
- Isaiah 19:14The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
- Isaiah 24:9They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
- Isaiah 24:11There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
- Isaiah 28:1Woe 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!
- Isaiah 28:3The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
- Isaiah 28:7But 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.
- Isaiah 28:8For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
- Isaiah 56:12Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.
- Jeremiah 25:27Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.
- Hosea 4:11Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
- Hosea 7:5In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
- Hosea 7:14And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.
- Joel 1:5Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
- Joel 3:3And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
- Amos 2:8And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.