Bible Verses About Being Drunk
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for being drunk, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 22,236 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 Being Drunk
Ephesians 5:181,243 votes
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
Proverbs 20:1936 votes
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Galatians 5:21816 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 Peter 5:8588 votes
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Isaiah 5:11571 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 6:10542 votes
Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
Proverbs 23:29-35523 votes
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
Romans 13:13423 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 5:11384 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.
1 Timothy 5:23355 votes
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.
Hebrews 10:26309 votes
For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
Romans 14:21307 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 2:3299 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 Timothy 3:8292 votes
Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
Proverbs 23:20-21286 votes
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
1 Corinthians 3:16-17286 votes
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Hosea 4:11277 votes
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
Isaiah 5:22261 votes
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
Habakkuk 2:15257 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!
Proverbs 31:6-7242 votes
Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.
Proverbs 23:21237 votes
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Proverbs 31:4-5236 votes
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:
Isaiah 28:7234 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.
Proverbs 23:31225 votes
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
Deuteronomy 21:20208 votes
And 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.
What does the Bible say about being drunk?
Readers most often cite Ephesians 5:18 on the subject of being drunk. Across 22,236 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 20:1, Galatians 5:21, 1 Peter 5:8. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.