6 Bible Verses about Intoxication

As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

Woe to them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:

The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under feet.

Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

For while they are folded together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.

But if that servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the men-servants, and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken?

For in eating every one taketh before another his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

And Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: Therefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

And when David had called him, he ate and drank before him; and he made him drunk: and at evening he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house.

And they went out at noon. But Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him.

Come ye, say they, I will bring wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to-morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.

And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza steward of his house in Tirzah.

And he drank the wine, and was drunken, and he was uncovered within his tent.

On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,

In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.