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"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
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
and said to her, "How long will you keep on getting drunk? Get rid of your wine."
1 Samuel Chapter 1: Verse 14
Those who sit at the gate mock me, and I am the song of the drunkards.
Psalms Chapter 69: Verse 12
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
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
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
"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
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
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
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
They will be entangled among thorns and drunk from their wine; they will be consumed like dry stubble.
Nahum Chapter 1: Verse 10
"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
and he then begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards.
Matthew Chapter 24: Verse 49
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
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
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
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