Bible Verses About Alcohol Abuse
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for alcohol abuse, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 866 votes, led by Proverbs 23:29-35. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Alcohol Abuse
Proverbs 23:29-3583 votes
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
1 Peter 5:878 votes
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Ephesians 5:1875 votes
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
Proverbs 20:159 votes
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
1 Corinthians 6:1053 votes
Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
Galatians 5:2141 votes
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.
Isaiah 5:2240 votes
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
Isaiah 5:1139 votes
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
1 Corinthians 3:1737 votes
If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
1 Corinthians 5:1128 votes
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.
Romans 13:1327 votes
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
1 Corinthians 6:19-2023 votes
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?
Luke 21:3422 votes
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.
Romans 14:2122 votes
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.
Titus 2:322 votes
The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
Proverbs 21:1721 votes
He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.
Isaiah 28:118 votes
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!
Isaiah 28:718 votes
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 6:9-1017 votes
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,
Proverbs 11:1716 votes
The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh.
1 Timothy 3:816 votes
Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
1 Timothy 5:2315 votes
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.
Luke 7:3414 votes
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!
Romans 12:214 votes
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Numbers 6:1-2713 votes
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
What does the Bible say about alcohol abuse?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 23:29-35 on the subject of alcohol abuse. Across 866 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Peter 5:8, Ephesians 5:18, Proverbs 20:1. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.