Bible Verses About Drinking and Smoking
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for drinking and smoking, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,393 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 Drinking and Smoking
Ephesians 5:18100 votes
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
Proverbs 20:194 votes
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
1 Corinthians 6:1991 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?
1 Corinthians 3:1774 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 Timothy 5:2370 votes
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.
1 Corinthians 5:1165 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 Corinthians 6:1259 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.
Romans 12:249 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.
1 Corinthians 6:1048 votes
Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
Isaiah 5:2245 votes
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
Luke 21:3441 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 John 2:15-1740 votes
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
John 15:1-2737 votes
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
Isaiah 5:1134 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!
Hebrews 10:2634 votes
For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
Isaiah 28:733 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.
Galatians 6:731 votes
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
1 Peter 5:831 votes
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
1 Corinthians 6:19-2028 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?
Romans 12:127 votes
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Habakkuk 2:1525 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 14:1-2325 votes
Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
1 Timothy 3:325 votes
Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
Proverbs 31:623 votes
Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.
Proverbs 31:420 votes
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:
What does the Bible say about drinking and smoking?
Readers most often cite Ephesians 5:18 on the subject of drinking and smoking. Across 1,393 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 20:1, 1 Corinthians 6:19, 1 Corinthians 3:17. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.