Bible Verses About Intoxication
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for intoxication, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 874 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 Intoxication
Proverbs 20:187 votes
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Ephesians 5:1867 votes
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
Galatians 5:2135 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.
Romans 13:1334 votes
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
1 Peter 5:827 votes
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
1 Timothy 5:2326 votes
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.
Galatians 5:19-2124 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Isaiah 5:2223 votes
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
Proverbs 23:2122 votes
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Proverbs 23:29-3522 votes
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
1 Corinthians 6:19-2021 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 5:1120 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.
Leviticus 10:919 votes
Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:
Isaiah 5:1119 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!
Hosea 4:1119 votes
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
Luke 21:3419 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 14:1-2318 votes
Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
Ecclesiastes 9:717 votes
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
1 Timothy 3:817 votes
Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
Genesis 9:2116 votes
And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
Psalms 104:14-1516 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;
Habakkuk 2:1516 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!
Psalms 104:1515 votes
And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man’s heart.
Proverbs 23:2015 votes
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
Isaiah 28:715 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.
What does the Bible say about intoxication?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 20:1 on the subject of intoxication. Across 874 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ephesians 5:18, Galatians 5:21, Romans 13:13. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.