75 Bible References on the Demise of Drinking

75   Bible References on the Demise of Drinking

1. Genesis 9:20-26  - The first drunkenness and attendant immoral behavior
2. Genesis 19:30-38 - Drinking results in Lot’s debauchery of his own daughters.
3. Genesis 27:25 - Isaac was drinking when he mistakenly blessed Jacob.
4. Leviticus 10:9 - An Express command not to Drink.

NIV Leviticus 10:9 "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.”

5. Numbers 6:3 - The vow of the Nazarite.
6. Deuteronomy 21:20  - Drinking leads to stubbornness, rebellion, and gluttony and brings dishonor to parents. 
7. Deuteronomy 29:2-6 – Abstinence assures a closer walk with God.
8. Judges 13:4, 7,14 - Samson’s mother, an example of all womanhood, was commanded not to drink.
9. I Samuel 1:14-15 - Hannah, an example of honored motherhood, refrained from drinking wine.
10. I Samuel 25:32-38 - Nabal, rich but coarse man who opposed David, died after a drunken spree.  He had already lost his wife’s respect.
11. II Samuel 11-13 - By having Uriah plied with strong drink, David attempted to cover his own sin.
12. II. Samuel 13:28-29 -  Ammon, in a drunken brawl, was murdered by his brother, Absalom.
13. I Kings 16:8-10  - While a king was  “drinking himself drunk”  in his own home, one of his captains conspired against him and slew him. 
14. I Kings 20:12-21 - Drink and war.  While Ben Hadad and 32 other kings were drinking in their pavilions, a small band of Israel’s men fell upon the Syrians and put them to flight.
15. Esther 1:5-12 – Drink wrecks homes and separates man and wife.
16. Job 1:18-19 - The children of Job were feasting and drinking when blown awat in a cyclone.
17. Proverbs 4:17 - Violence results from drinking.
18. Proverbs 20:1 – No wise man will indulge
19. Proverbs 21:17 – He that loveth wine is not rich
20. Proverbs 23:21 – Drinking leads to poverty.
21. Proverbs 23:29-30 - Strong drink produces sorrow, contentions, wounds without cause, babblings, redness of eyes.
22. Proverbs 23:31- Do not be tempted by intoxicants.
23.  Proverbs 23:32 – Liquor harms all who drink.
24. Proverbs 23:33 – it fills men’s minds with adulterous and impure thoughts.
25. Proverbs 23:34  - it brings on insecurity.
26.  Proverbs 23:35 - Insensibility follows drinking
27. Proverbs 23:35 Habit forming. One drink calls for another.
28. Proverbs 31:4-5 Kings and all other rulers or officials with the weight of human lives in their control should not indulge.
29. Proverbs 31:6-7  - The only Sanction for the use of strong drink was as a medicine or anesthetic for those about to die.  (We now have better medicines and anesthetics than whiskey, wine or beer)
30. Ecclesiastes 2:3
31. Ecclesiastes 12:8   - Both speaks of the Writer of Ecclesiastes trying strong drink,   but in the end was forced to admit that it too is vanity.
32. Ecclesiastes 10:17 - Blessings are promised to the temperate and abstaining nation.
33.  Isaiah 5:11-12 – woe to the drunkards.
34. Isaiah 5:22 – More woes to them who drink.
35. Isaiah 22:13  - Drinking and carnality go together.  Leaves men hopeless.
36. Isaiah 24:9  - Drink is bitter to them that drink it.

Several lessons from one verse:

37. Isaiah 28:1 Woe to the drunkards of Ephraim.
38. Isaiah 28:3 – The pride of drunkards will be trodden down .
39. Isaiah 28:7 – Prophet and priests erred through drink.
40. Isaiah 28:7  - those who drink were set  aside as useless.
41. Isaiah 28:7  - prophets and priests finally swallowed up by drink.
42. Isaiah 28:7  - Drinking brings on spiritual blindness
43. Isaiah 56:9-12 - rebuke to the wicked
44. Jeremiah 35:5,6,8,14 – Total Abstinence of the Rechabites cited as an example of obedience on the part of God’s people.
45. Ezekiel 44:21 – Priests are not to drink wine.
46. Daniel 1:5, 8; 16 10:3  - God Honored Daniel because he abstained from drinking the kings wine.
47. Daniel 5:1 - Belshazzar exhibited as an example of a leader who drank and taught  his people to drink.
48.  Daniel 5:2, 23 - A nation whose women Drink
49. Daniel 5:5-9, 25-28 – Ruin and downfall for nations whose rulers and leaders cause them to drink.
50. Daniel 5:3 – Balshazzar’s blasphemy in using sacred temple vessels for liquor.
51. Hosea 3:1 – Part of degradation of Hosea’s wife induced by drink.  (King James Version)
52. Hosea 4:11 – Strong drink and immorality go hand in hand
53. Hosea 7:5 – King and people reproved because of drinking.
54. Joel 1:5 – Drunkards to awake from  their drinking and weep
55.  Joel 3:3 – Young virtue sold for the price of drink
56. Amos 2:8 – Wine of the condemned
57. Amos 2:12 - Pollution of the innocent
58. Amos 4:1 – Dissolute women, oppressors of the poor, call for their liquor.
59. Amos 6:6 – Drinkers not concerned about God nor the welfare of others.
60. Nahum 1:10 – Drunkards to be destroyed
61. Habakkuk 2:5 Arrogance inflamed by drink.
62. Habakkuk 2:15 Wrong to give one’s neighbor drink -  refers I think to social drinking…
63. Habakkuk 2:26 – Drink leads to shame and humiliation
64. Matthew 24:48-51 - Drunkards warned about the return of Christ and His judgment
65. Luke 1:15 – Greatness of John the Baptist linked with his total abstinence
66. Luke 12:45 – Christ warns against being enmeshed in drink evil.
67.  Luke 21:34 – Warning against drunkenness and the cares of this life, which follow, keeping one occupied to the exclusion of the Spirit. 
68. Romans 13:13 – all are admonished to walk honestly not rioting and drunkenness.   It is not Honest to be less than men, created in the image of God.
69. Romans 14:21 – Drinking causes a brother to stumble - Importance placed on being an example.
70.  1 Corinthians 6:10 No drunkard shall inherit the kingdom of God.  (Therefore the preaching of the Gospel must include alcohol education)
71. 1 Corinthians 11:17-25 The Lord’s Supper no place for wine - The “wine” is not even used - instead all accounts say, “cup” or  “fruit of the vine”
72. Galatians 5:21 - Revelers in drunkenness shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
73. Ephesians 5:18 – Direct command that exhilaration shall be of the Spirit and not by wine.
74. 1 Thessalonians 5:6-8 – Self-control is the standard – abstinence (Light) is seen in comparison to drunkenness (darkness)  - Lesson:  children of light must not be overcome by darkness
75.  1 Timothy 3:3, 8,11,12 -  Church officers must not drink; neither should their families