Bible Verses About Liquor
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for liquor, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 519 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 Liquor
Proverbs 20:162 votes
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Ephesians 5:1842 votes
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
1 Corinthians 6:1032 votes
Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Timothy 5:2329 votes
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.
Isaiah 5:1128 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 6:9-1024 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,
Proverbs 31:422 votes
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:
Galatians 5:2122 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.
Isaiah 5:2217 votes
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
John 2:1-1116 votes
And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there:
1 Peter 5:816 votes
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Proverbs 23:29-3514 votes
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
Hosea 4:1114 votes
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
1 Timothy 3:1-714 votes
This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
Luke 6:3113 votes
And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
Romans 13:1313 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 Corinthians 5:1113 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 10:912 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:
Numbers 6:312 votes
He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.
Psalms 104:14-1512 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 23:20-2112 votes
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
Proverbs 23:3110 votes
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
Proverbs 31:610 votes
Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.
Isaiah 28:710 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.
Isaiah 55:110 votes
Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
What does the Bible say about liquor?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 20:1 on the subject of liquor. Across 519 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ephesians 5:18, 1 Corinthians 6:10, 1 Timothy 5:23. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.