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Bible Verses About Drinking Alcohol
Find Bible verses about drinking alcohol — curated from 31,000+ verses with emotional and contextual scoring. What Scripture actually says.
What does the Bible say about drinking alcohol?
The Bible addresses drinking alcohol with deep compassion and clarity. From the Psalms to the words of Jesus, Scripture meets you in this exact feeling and offers comfort, strength, and direction. Here are the most powerful verses — each chosen because they speak directly to what you're going through.
Most Powerful Verses
Luke 7:34
“The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, 'Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!'”
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Luke 7:33
“For John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, 'He has a demon.'”
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Proverbs 23:20
“Don't be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:”
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Proverbs 26:6
“One who sends a message by the hand of a fool is cutting off feet and drinking violence.”
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Matthew 24:38
“For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship,”
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1 Kings 4:20
“Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.”
Matthew 11:18
“For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, 'He has a demon.'”
2 Chronicles 9:20
“All king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: silver was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.”
1 Kings 16:9
“His servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him. Now he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah:”
Job 1:13
“It fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,”
Job 1:18
“While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, "Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,”
1 Chronicles 12:39
“They were there with David three days, eating and drinking; for their brothers had made preparation for them.”
Esther 1:8
“In accordance with the law, the drinking was not compulsory; for so the king had instructed all the officials of his house, that they should do according to every man's pleasure.”
1 Kings 20:16
“They went out at noon. But Ben Hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings who helped him.”
1 Kings 20:12
“It happened, when Ben Hadad heard this message, as he was drinking, he and the kings, in the pavilions, that he said to his servants, "Prepare to attack!" They prepared to attack the city.”
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