Bible Verses About Underage Drinking
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for underage drinking, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,159 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 Underage Drinking
Proverbs 20:1253 votes
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Ephesians 5:18221 votes
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
Isaiah 5:11135 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!
Proverbs 23:20-21133 votes
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
1 Peter 4:3111 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:
Galatians 5:19-2187 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
1 Corinthians 6:1079 votes
Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Timothy 4:1276 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.
Romans 14:2174 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 31:4-570 votes
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:
1 Timothy 5:2370 votes
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.
Romans 13:1368 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 6:19-2065 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?
Galatians 5:2159 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 23:29-3558 votes
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
Luke 21:3454 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.
1 Thessalonians 5:6-854 votes
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
1 Corinthians 6:1251 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 Corinthians 5:1150 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.
Titus 2:2-640 votes
That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
1 Peter 5:839 votes
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Romans 13:138 votes
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
Isaiah 5:2235 votes
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
Proverbs 23:31-3228 votes
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
Luke 1:1526 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.
What does the Bible say about underage drinking?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 20:1 on the subject of underage drinking. Across 2,159 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ephesians 5:18, Isaiah 5:11, Proverbs 23:20-21. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.