Bible Verses About Drunkards
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for drunkards, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,788 votes, led by 1 Corinthians 6:9-10. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Drunkards
1 Corinthians 6:9-10179 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,
1 Corinthians 5:11133 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.
Proverbs 20:1131 votes
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
1 Corinthians 6:10130 votes
Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
Galatians 5:21119 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.
Ephesians 5:18-20101 votes
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
Proverbs 23:2184 votes
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Galatians 5:19-2175 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Ephesians 5:1872 votes
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
Proverbs 26:964 votes
As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
Isaiah 5:2264 votes
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
Isaiah 28:164 votes
Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
Proverbs 23:20-2161 votes
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
Isaiah 5:1160 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!
Joel 1:554 votes
Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
Titus 2:353 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 Corinthians 6:947 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,
1 Corinthians 6:9-1145 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,
Psalms 69:1244 votes
They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
Isaiah 28:342 votes
The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
Deuteronomy 21:2038 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.
Romans 13:1335 votes
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
Romans 14:2134 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.
Proverbs 20:1-3032 votes
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Isaiah 28:1-2932 votes
Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
What does the Bible say about drunkards?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 on the subject of drunkards. Across 2,788 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 5:11, Proverbs 20:1, 1 Corinthians 6:10. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.