Bible Verses About Alcohol
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for alcohol, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 11,596 votes, led by Ephesians 5:18. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Alcohol
Ephesians 5:18603 votes
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
Proverbs 20:1510 votes
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
1 Timothy 5:23379 votes
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.
Proverbs 23:29-35326 votes
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
Romans 14:21310 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.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11288 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,
Isaiah 5:11281 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!
Isaiah 5:22240 votes
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
Galatians 5:21221 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.
1 Timothy 3:8220 votes
Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
Psalms 104:14-15211 votes
He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
Ecclesiastes 9:7206 votes
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
Galatians 5:19-21200 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Galatians 5:19-25195 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Romans 13:13191 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 23:20-21171 votes
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
Luke 21:34164 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.
1 Corinthians 6:10164 votes
Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Peter 5:8163 votes
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Luke 7:34161 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!
Leviticus 10:9155 votes
Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:
Isaiah 55:1151 votes
Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
Matthew 11:18-19150 votes
For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil.
Titus 2:3136 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;
Isaiah 28:7128 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.
What does the Bible say about alcohol?
Readers most often cite Ephesians 5:18 on the subject of alcohol. Across 11,596 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 20:1, 1 Timothy 5:23, Proverbs 23:29-35. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.