Bible Verses About Drug Use
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for drug use, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 7,930 votes, led by 1 Corinthians 6:19-20. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Drug Use
1 Corinthians 6:19-20924 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 Peter 5:8702 votes
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Galatians 5:21534 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 Corinthians 10:13459 votes
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
1 Corinthians 15:33371 votes
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
Galatians 5:19-21361 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Romans 13:13-14302 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 20:1269 votes
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Proverbs 23:29-35182 votes
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
Romans 12:2174 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.
Isaiah 55:2169 votes
Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
1 Corinthians 3:16168 votes
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
1 Thessalonians 5:6-8134 votes
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
Romans 12:1132 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.
Romans 14:1-23115 votes
Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
1 Corinthians 5:11110 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 6:19104 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 6:9-11100 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,
Ephesians 5:1893 votes
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
Luke 1:1590 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.
Proverbs 22:387 votes
A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.
Proverbs 31:6-783 votes
Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.
Isaiah 5:1177 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 6:1264 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.
1 Timothy 4:1259 votes
Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
What does the Bible say about drug use?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 on the subject of drug use. Across 7,930 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Peter 5:8, Galatians 5:21, 1 Corinthians 10:13. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.