Bible Verses About Total Abstinence

ADONAI said to Aharon,

"Don't drink any wine or other intoxicating liquor, neither you nor your sons with you, when you enter the tent of meeting, so that you will not die. This is to be a permanent regulation through all your generations,

so that you will distinguish between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean;

he is to abstain from wine and other intoxicating liquor, he is not to drink vinegar from either source, he is not to drink grape juice, and he is not to eat grapes or raisins.

As long as he remains a nazir he is to eat nothing derived from the grapevine, not even the grape-skins or the seeds.

Now, therefore, be careful not to drink any wine or other intoxicating liquor, and don't eat anything unclean.

The angel of ADONAI said to Manoach, "The woman should take care to do everything I said to her.

She shouldn't eat anything that comes from a grapevine, she shouldn't drink wine or other intoxicating liquor, and she shouldn't eat anything unclean. She should do everything I ordered her to do."

The drinking was not according to any fixed rule, for the king had ordered the stewards to serve each man what he wanted.

Don't be one of those who guzzle wine or of those who eat meat to excess,

Don't gaze at the red wine as it gives its color to the cup. It may glide down smoothly now;

but in the end, it bites like a serpent -yes, it strikes like a poisonous snake.

It is not for kings, L'mu'el, not for kings to drink wine; it is not for rulers to ask, "Where can I find strong liquor?"

But they said, "We will not drink any wine; because Yonadav the son of Rekhav, our ancestor, gave us this order: 'You are not to drink wine, neither you nor your descendants, forever.

Also you are not to build houses, sow seed, or plant or own vineyards. Rather, you are always to live in tents; so that you may live a long time in the land, in which you are not citizens.'

We have heeded the words of Yonadav the son of Rekhav, our ancestor, in all that he instructed us to do: not to drink wine as long as we live - we, our wives, our sons and our daughters;

'The words of Yonadav the son of Rekhav which he ordered his offspring, not to drink wine, are obeyed; so to this day they don't drink any; because they heed their ancestor's order. But I have spoken to you, spoken frequently, and you have not listened to me.

for he will be great in the sight of ADONAI. He is never to drink wine or other liquor, and he will be filled with the Ruach HaKodesh even from his mother's womb.