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Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard.
When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent.
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers outside.
Genesis Chapter 9: Verses 20 - 22
Pharaoh's cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes, squeezed them into Pharaoh's cup and put the cup in his hand."
Genesis Chapter 40: Verse 11
He will tether his donkey to a vine, his colt to the choicest branch; he will wash his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.
Genesis Chapter 49: Verse 11
"You and your sons are not to drink wine or other fermented drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or you will die. This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.
Leviticus Chapter 10: Verse 9
"Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'If a man or woman wants to make a special vow, a vow of separation to the LORD as a Nazirite,
he must abstain from wine and other fermented drink and must not drink vinegar made from wine or from other fermented drink. He must not drink grape juice or eat grapes or raisins.
Numbers Chapter 6: Verses 2 - 3
Use the silver to buy whatever you like: cattle, sheep, wine or other fermented drink, or anything you wish. Then you and your household shall eat there in the presence of the LORD your God and rejoice.
Deuteronomy Chapter 14: Verse 26
They shall say to the elders, "This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a profligate and a drunkard."
Then all the men of his town shall stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you. All Israel will hear of it and be afraid. Various Laws
Deuteronomy Chapter 21: Verses 20 - 21
You ate no bread and drank no wine or other fermented drink. I did this so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy Chapter 29: Verse 6
When such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself and therefore thinks, "I will be safe, even though I persist in going my own way." This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.
Deuteronomy Chapter 29: Verse 19
So Israel will live in safety alone; Jacob's spring is secure in a land of grain and new wine, where the heavens drop dew.
Deuteronomy Chapter 33: Verse 28
they resorted to a ruse: They went as a delegation whose donkeys were loaded with worn-out sacks and old wineskins, cracked and mended.
Joshua Chapter 9: Verse 4
And these wineskins that we filled were new, but see how cracked they are. And our clothes and sandals are worn out by the very long journey."
Joshua Chapter 9: Verse 13
Now see to it that you drink no wine or other fermented drink and that you do not eat anything unclean,
Judges Chapter 13: Verse 4
and said to her, "How long will you keep on getting drunk? Get rid of your wine."
1 Samuel Chapter 1: Verse 14
until I come and take you to a land like your own, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey. Choose life and not death! "Do not listen to Hezekiah, for he is misleading you when he says, 'The LORD will deliver us.'
2 Kings Chapter 18: Verse 32
He also made buildings to store the harvest of grain, new wine and oil; and he made stalls for various kinds of cattle, and pens for the flocks.
2 Chronicles Chapter 32: Verse 28
The people of Israel, including the Levites, are to bring their contributions of grain, new wine and oil to the storerooms where the articles for the sanctuary are kept and where the ministering priests, the gatekeepers and the singers stay. "We will not neglect the house of our God."
Nehemiah Chapter 10: Verse 39
inside I am like bottled-up wine, like new wineskins ready to burst.
Job Chapter 32: Verse 19
You have filled my heart with greater joy than when their grain and new wine abound.
Psalms Chapter 4: Verse 7
Those who sit at the gate mock me, and I am the song of the drunkards.
Psalms Chapter 69: Verse 12
He makes grass grow for the cattle, and plants for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:
wine that gladdens the heart of man, oil to make his face shine, and bread that sustains his heart.
Psalms Chapter 104: Verses 14 - 15
They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
Proverbs Chapter 4: Verse 17
Wine is a mocker and beer a brawler; whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
Proverbs Chapter 20: Verse 1
He who loves pleasure will become poor; whoever loves wine and oil will never be rich.
Proverbs Chapter 21: Verse 17
Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat,
for drunkards and gluttons become poor, and drowsiness clothes them in rags.
Proverbs Chapter 23: Verses 20 - 21
Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?
Those who linger over wine, who go to sample bowls of mixed wine.
Do not gaze at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly!
In the end it bites like a snake and poisons like a viper.
Your eyes will see strange sights and your mind imagine confusing things.
You will be like one sleeping on the high seas, lying on top of the rigging.
"They hit me," you will say, "but I'm not hurt! They beat me, but I don't feel it! When will I wake up so I can find another drink?"
Proverbs Chapter 23: Verses 29 - 35
"It is not for kings, O Lemuel, not for kings to drink wine, not for rulers to crave beer,
lest they drink and forget what the law decrees, and deprive all the oppressed of their rights.
Give beer to those who are perishing, wine to those who are in anguish;
let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more.
Proverbs Chapter 31: Verses 4 - 7
I tried cheering myself with wine, and embracing folly,my mind still guiding me with wisdom. I wanted to see what was worthwhile for men to do under heaven during the few days of their lives.
Ecclesiastes Chapter 2: Verse 3
Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun. Wisdom and Folly Are Meaningless
Ecclesiastes Chapter 2: Verse 11
I would lead you and bring you to my mother's house, she who has taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates.
Song of Solomon Chapter 8: Verse 2
Woe to those who rise early in the morning to run after their drinks, who stay up late at night till they are inflamed with wine.
They have harps and lyres at their banquets, tambourines and flutes and wine, but they have no regard for the deeds of the LORD, no respect for the work of his hands.
Isaiah Chapter 5: Verses 11 - 12
Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine and champions at mixing drinks,
Isaiah Chapter 5: Verse 22
The LORD has poured into them a spirit of dizziness; they make Egypt stagger in all that she does, as a drunkard staggers around in his vomit.
Isaiah Chapter 19: Verse 14
No longer do they drink wine with a song; the beer is bitter to its drinkers.
Isaiah Chapter 24: Verse 9
In the streets they cry out for wine; all joy turns to gloom, all gaiety is banished from the earth.
Isaiah Chapter 24: Verse 11
On this mountain the LORD Almighty will prepare a feast of rich food for all peoples, a banquet of aged wine, the best of meats and the finest of wines.
Isaiah Chapter 25: Verse 6
Woe to that wreath, the pride of Ephraim's drunkards, to the fading flower, his glorious beauty, set on the head of a fertile valley, to that city, the pride of those laid low by wine!
Isaiah Chapter 28: Verse 1
That wreath, the pride of Ephraim's drunkards, will be trampled underfoot.
Isaiah Chapter 28: Verse 3
And these also stagger from wine and reel from beer: Priests and prophets stagger from beer and are befuddled with wine; they reel from beer, they stagger when seeing visions, they stumble when rendering decisions.
Isaiah Chapter 28: Verse 7
"Come," each one cries, "let me get wine! Let us drink our fill of beer! And tomorrow will be like today, or even far better."
Isaiah Chapter 56: Verse 12
"Say to them: 'This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Every wineskin should be filled with wine.' And if they say to you, 'Don't we know that every wineskin should be filled with wine?'
Jeremiah Chapter 13: Verse 12
Concerning the prophets: My heart is broken within me; all my bones tremble. I am like a drunken man, like a man overcome by wine, because of the LORD and his holy words.
Jeremiah Chapter 23: Verse 9
"Then tell them, 'This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Drink, get drunk and vomit, and fall to rise no more because of the sword I will send among you.'
Jeremiah Chapter 25: Verse 27
"Go to the Recabite family and invite them to come to one of the side rooms of the house of the LORD and give them wine to drink."
So I went to get Jaazaniah son of Jeremiah, the son of Habazziniah, and his brothers and all his sons,the whole family of the Recabites.
I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the room of the sons of Hanan son of Igdaliah the man of God. It was next to the room of the officials, which was over that of Maaseiah son of Shallum the doorkeeper.
Then I set bowls full of wine and some cups before the men of the Recabite family and said to them, "Drink some wine."
But they replied, "We do not drink wine, because our forefather Jonadab son of Recab gave us this command: 'Neither you nor your descendants must ever drink wine.
Also you must never build houses, sow seed or plant vineyards; you must never have any of these things, but must always live in tents. Then you will live a long time in the land where you are nomads.'
We have obeyed everything our forefather Jonadab son of Recab commanded us. Neither we nor our wives nor our sons and daughters have ever drunk wine
or built houses to live in or had vineyards, fields or crops.
We have lived in tents and have fully obeyed everything our forefather Jonadab commanded us.
Jeremiah Chapter 35: Verses 2 - 10
'Jonadab son of Recab ordered his sons not to drink wine and this command has been kept. To this day they do not drink wine, because they obey their forefather's command. But I have spoken to you again and again, yet you have not obeyed me.
Jeremiah Chapter 35: Verse 14
Then Jeremiah said to the family of the Recabites, "This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: 'You have obeyed the command of your forefather Jonadab and have followed all his instructions and have done everything he ordered.'
Therefore, this is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: 'Jonadab son of Recab will never fail to have a man to serve me.' "
Jeremiah Chapter 35: Verses 18 - 19
I myself will stay at Mizpah to represent you before the Babylonians who come to us, but you are to harvest the wine, summer fruit and oil, and put them in your storage jars, and live in the towns you have taken over."
Jeremiah Chapter 40: Verse 10
they all came back to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah, from all the countries where they had been scattered. And they harvested an abundance of wine and summer fruit.
Jeremiah Chapter 40: Verse 12
But days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will send men who pour from jars, and they will pour her out; they will empty her jars and smash her jugs.
Jeremiah Chapter 48: Verse 12
No priest is to drink wine when he enters the inner court.
Ezekiel Chapter 44: Verse 21
The king assigned them a daily amount of food and wine from the king's table. They were to be trained for three years, and after that they were to enter the king's service.
Daniel Chapter 1: Verse 5
But Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the royal food and wine, and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself this way.
Daniel Chapter 1: Verse 8
So the guard took away their choice food and the wine they were to drink and gave them vegetables instead.
Daniel Chapter 1: Verse 16
I ate no choice food; no meat or wine touched my lips; and I used no lotions at all until the three weeks were over.
Daniel Chapter 10: Verse 3
She has not acknowledged that I was the one who gave her the grain, the new wine and oil, who lavished on her the silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
Hosea Chapter 2: Verse 8
and the earth will respond to the grain, the new wine and oil, and they will respond to Jezreel.
Hosea Chapter 2: Verse 22
to prostitution, to old wine and new, which take away the understanding
Hosea Chapter 4: Verse 11
On the day of the festival of our king the princes become inflamed with wine, and he joins hands with the mockers.
Hosea Chapter 7: Verse 5
They do not cry out to me from their hearts but wail upon their beds. They gather together for grain and new wine but turn away from me.
Hosea Chapter 7: Verse 14
Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine; wail because of the new wine, for it has been snatched from your lips.
Joel Chapter 1: Verse 5
The threshing floors will be filled with grain; the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.
Joel Chapter 2: Verse 24
They cast lots for my people and traded boys for prostitutes; they sold girls for wine that they might drink.
Joel Chapter 3: Verse 3
They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. In the house of their god they drink wine taken as fines.
Amos Chapter 2: Verse 8
"But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.
Amos Chapter 2: Verse 12
You drink wine by the bowlful and use the finest lotions, but you do not grieve over the ruin of Joseph.
Amos Chapter 6: Verse 6
They will be entangled among thorns and drunk from their wine; they will be consumed like dry stubble.
Nahum Chapter 1: Verse 10
indeed, wine betrays him; he is arrogant and never at rest. Because he is as greedy as the grave and like death is never satisfied, he gathers to himself all the nations and takes captive all the peoples.
Habakkuk Chapter 2: Verse 5
"Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin till they are drunk, so that he can gaze on their naked bodies.
You will be filled with shame instead of glory. Now it is your turn! Drink and be exposed ! The cup from the LORD's right hand is coming around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory.
Habakkuk Chapter 2: Verses 15 - 16
If a liar and deceiver comes and says, 'I will prophesy for you plenty of wine and beer,' he would be just the prophet for this people! Deliverance Promised
Micah Chapter 2: Verse 11
I called for a drought on the fields and the mountains, on the grain, the new wine, the oil and whatever the ground produces, on men and cattle, and on the labor of your hands."
Haggai Chapter 1: Verse 11
How attractive and beautiful they will be! Grain will make the young men thrive, and new wine the young women.
Zechariah Chapter 9: Verse 17
The Ephraimites will become like mighty men, and their hearts will be glad as with wine. Their children will see it and be joyful; their hearts will rejoice in the LORD.
Zechariah Chapter 10: Verse 7
Neither do men pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved."A Dead Girl and a Sick Woman
Matthew Chapter 9: Verse 17
For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, 'He has a demon.'
The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and "sinners." ' But wisdom is proved right by her actions."Woe on Unrepentant Cities
Matthew Chapter 11: Verses 18 - 19
and he then begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards.
Matthew Chapter 24: Verse 49
Then he took the cup, gave thanks and offered it to them, saying, "Drink from it, all of you.
This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
I tell you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father's kingdom."
Matthew Chapter 26: Verses 27 - 29
Immediately one of them ran and got a sponge. He filled it with wine vinegar, put it on a stick, and offered it to Jesus to drink.
Matthew Chapter 27: Verse 48
Then he took the cup, gave thanks and offered it to them, and they all drank from it.
Mark Chapter 14: Verse 23
Then they offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it.
Mark Chapter 15: Verse 23
for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He is never to take wine or other fermented drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from birth.
Luke Chapter 1: Verse 15
And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins, the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined.
No, new wine must be poured into new wineskins.
Luke Chapter 5: Verses 37 - 38
But suppose the servant says to himself, 'My master is taking a long time in coming,' and he then begins to beat the menservants and maidservants and to eat and drink and get drunk.
Luke Chapter 12: Verse 45
"Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you unexpectedly like a trap.
Luke Chapter 21: Verse 34
After taking the cup, he gave thanks and said, "Take this and divide it among you.
For I tell you I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes."
And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me."
In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.
Luke Chapter 22: Verses 17 - 20
The soldiers also came up and mocked him. They offered him wine vinegar
Luke Chapter 23: Verse 36
and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside
and said, "Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now."
John Chapter 2: Verses 9 - 10
A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus' lips.
John Chapter 19: Verse 29
Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
Romans Chapter 13: Verse 13
It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother to fall.
So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the man who does not condemn himself by what he approves.
Romans Chapter 14: Verses 21 - 22
But now I am writing you that you must not associate with anyone who calls himself a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.
1 Corinthians Chapter 5: Verse 11
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Corinthians Chapter 6: Verses 9 - 10
The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery;
idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions
and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Galatians Chapter 5: Verses 19 - 21
Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.
Ephesians Chapter 5: Verse 18
For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.
1 Thessalonians Chapter 5: Verse 7
Here is a trustworthy saying: If anyone sets his heart on being an overseer, he desires a noble task.
Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.
1 Timothy Chapter 3: Verses 1 - 3
Stop drinking only water, and use a little wine because of your stomach and your frequent illnesses.
1 Timothy Chapter 5: Verse 23
Since an overseer is entrusted with God's work, he must be blameless,not overbearing, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not pursuing dishonest gain.
Titus Chapter 1: Verse 7
Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good.
Titus Chapter 2: Verse 3
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