Bible Verses About Drunkenness
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for drunkenness, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,984 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 Drunkenness
Proverbs 20:1156 votes
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Ephesians 5:18153 votes
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
Galatians 5:19-21110 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Luke 21:3496 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.
Romans 13:1387 votes
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
Galatians 5:2178 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.
Proverbs 23:29-3573 votes
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
Isaiah 5:1168 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 Peter 5:857 votes
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
1 Timothy 5:2355 votes
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.
Isaiah 5:2254 votes
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
Genesis 9:2149 votes
And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
Romans 14:2148 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 23:2145 votes
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Isaiah 28:745 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.
1 Corinthians 6:1043 votes
Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
Hosea 4:1136 votes
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
1 Peter 4:336 votes
For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
Matthew 24:4935 votes
And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
1 Corinthians 6:19-2035 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?
Psalms 104:14-1534 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 23:2034 votes
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
Proverbs 23:20-2134 votes
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
Proverbs 23:3133 votes
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
Ecclesiastes 9:731 votes
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
What does the Bible say about drunkenness?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 20:1 on the subject of drunkenness. Across 2,984 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ephesians 5:18, Galatians 5:19-21, Luke 21:34. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.