Bible Verses About Drunkenness: General references

And shall say to them: This our son is rebellious and stubborn, he slighteth hearing our admonitions, he giveth himself to revelling, and to debauchery and banquetings:

The people of the city shall stone him: and he shall die, that you may take away the evil out of the midst of you, and all Israel hearing it may be afraid.

And when he shall hear the words of this oath, he should bless himself in his heart saying: I shall have peace, and will walk on in the naughtiness of my heart: and the drunken may consume the thirsty,

And the Lord should not forgive him: but his wrath and jealousy against that man should be exceedingly enkindled at that time, and all the curses that are written in this volume should light upon him: and the Lord should blot out his name from under heaven,

And utterly destroy him out of all the tribes of Israel, according to the curses that are contained in the book of this law and covenant:

Be not in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in their revellings, who contribute flesh to eat:

Because they that give themselves to drinking, and that club together, shall be consumed: and drowsiness shall be clothed with rags.

Who hath woe? whose father hath woe? who hath contentions? who falls into pits? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?

Surely they that pass their time in wine, and study to drink off their cups.

Look not upon the wine when it is yellow, when the colour thereof shineth in the glass: it goeth in pleasantly,

But in the end, it will bite like a snake, and will spread abroad poison like a basilisk.

Thy eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall utter perverse things.

And thou shalt be as one sleeping in the midst of the sea, and as a pilot fast asleep when the stern is lost.

And thou shalt say: They have beaten me, but I was not sensible of pain: they drew me, and I felt not: when shall I awake and find wine again?

Give not to kings, O Lamuel, give not wine to kings: because there is no secret where drunkenness reigneth:

And lest they drink and forget judgments, and pervert the cause of the children of the poor.

Give strong drink to them that are sad; and wine to them that are grieved in mind:

Let them drink, and forget their want, and remember their sorrow no more.

Woe to you that rise up early in the morning to follow drunkenness, and to drink in the evening, to be inflamed with wine.

The harp, and the lyre, and, the timbrel and the pipe, and wine are in your feasts: and the work of the Lord you regard not, nor do you consider the works of his hands.

But these also have been ignorant through wine, and through drunkenness have erred: the priest and the prophet have been ignorant through drunkenness, they are swallowed up with wine, they have gone astray in drunkenness, they have not known him that seeth, they have been ignorant of judgment.

For all the tables were full of vomit and filth, so that there was no more place.

Woe to him that giveth drink to his friend, and presenteth his gall, and maketh him drunk, that he may behold his nakedness.

Thou art filled with shame instead of glory: drink thou also, and fall fast asleep: the cup of the right hand of the Lord shall compass thee, and shameful vomiting shall be on thy glory.

For the iniquity of Libanus shall cover thee, and the ravaging of beasts shall terrify them because of the blood of men, and the iniquity of the land, and of the city, and of all that dwell therein.