Bible Verses About Wine

For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

She has prepared her food, spiced her wine, and she has set her table.

"Come and eat my food! Drink the wine I have mixed!

Wine is a mocker, strong liquor a rowdy; anyone led astray by it is unwise.

Pleasure-lovers will suffer want; he who loves wine and oil won't get rich.

Who has misery? Who has regret? Who fights and complains all the time? Who gets bruised for no good reason? Who has bloodshot eyes?

Those who spend their time over wine, those always trying out mixed drinks.

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?"

For they may drink, then forget what has been decreed, and pervert the justice due to the poor.

Give strong liquor to one who is perishing, wine to the deeply depressed;

let him drink, forget his poverty and cease to remember his troubles.

I searched my mind for how to gratify my body with wine and, with my mind still guiding me with wisdom, how to pursue foolishness; my object was to find out what was the best thing for people to do during the short time they have under heaven to live.

Then I looked at all that my hands had accomplished and at the work I had toiled at; and I saw that it was all meaningless and feeding on wind, and that there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

Parties are made for having a good time, wine adds cheer to life, and money has an answer for everything.

[She] Let him smother me with kisses from his mouth, for your love is better than wine.

"Take me with you. We will run after you." The king has brought me into his rooms. [Chorus] We will be glad and rejoice for you. We will praise your love more than wine. How right it is for them to love you!

Sustain me with raisins, refresh me with apples, for I am sick with love.

[He] My sister, my bride, I have entered my garden; I am gathering my myrrh and my spices; I am eating my honeycomb along with my honey; I am drinking my wine as well as my milk. [Chorus] Eat, friends, and drink, until you are drunk with love!

I would lead you and bring you to my mother's house, and she would instruct me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, fresh juice from my pomegranates.

Your silver is no longer pure, your wine is watered down.

Woe to those who get up early to pursue intoxicating liquor; who stay up late at night, until wine inflames them.

They have lutes and lyres, drums and flutes, and wine at their parties; but they pay no attention to how ADONAI works and never look at what his hands have made.

Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine, men whose power goes to mixing strong drinks,