Bible Verses About Drink
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for drink, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 406 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 Drink
Proverbs 20:135 votes
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Ephesians 5:1831 votes
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
1 Timothy 5:2331 votes
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.
1 Corinthians 10:3125 votes
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
Isaiah 5:1123 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!
Romans 14:2120 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.
Isaiah 5:2219 votes
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
Galatians 5:2119 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 3:819 votes
Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
Romans 13:1318 votes
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
Isaiah 28:716 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.
Ecclesiastes 9:715 votes
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
Luke 21:3414 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 6:1014 votes
Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
Judges 13:413 votes
Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:
Psalms 104:14-1513 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;
Proverbs 23:29-3513 votes
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
Numbers 6:312 votes
He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.
Judges 13:712 votes
But he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death.
Matthew 11:1912 votes
The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.
Proverbs 23:2111 votes
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
John 2:1-1111 votes
And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there:
1 Corinthians 6:1210 votes
All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
What does the Bible say about drink?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 20:1 on the subject of drink. Across 406 votes, 23 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ephesians 5:18, 1 Timothy 5:23, 1 Corinthians 10:31. This page lists all 23 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.