Bible Verses About Alcohol Consumption
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for alcohol consumption, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 525 votes, led by Proverbs 20:1. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Alcohol Consumption
Proverbs 20:175 votes
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Ephesians 5:1853 votes
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
1 Corinthians 6:1039 votes
Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Timothy 5:2332 votes
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.
Romans 14:2130 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.
Proverbs 23:29-3528 votes
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
Galatians 5:2125 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.
Titus 2:223 votes
That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
Titus 2:320 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;
1 Peter 5:817 votes
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
1 Corinthians 6:9-1015 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,
Leviticus 10:8-1014 votes
And the Lord spake unto Aaron, saying,
Luke 1:1514 votes
For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother’s womb.
1 Peter 4:1-514 votes
Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
Daniel 1:813 votes
But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.
Luke 7:3413 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!
Deuteronomy 14:2612 votes
And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the Lord thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household,
Isaiah 5:1112 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!
2 Timothy 4:512 votes
But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
Proverbs 23:2011 votes
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
Proverbs 23:3111 votes
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
Habakkuk 2:1511 votes
Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
Romans 13:1311 votes
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
Proverbs 23:29-3210 votes
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
Isaiah 5:2210 votes
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
What does the Bible say about alcohol consumption?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 20:1 on the subject of alcohol consumption. Across 525 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ephesians 5:18, 1 Corinthians 6:10, 1 Timothy 5:23. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.