35 Bible Verses about drunkards
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nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; And drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.
Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and wail, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, And are at their wits end.
For they that sleep sleep in the night: and they that are drunken are drunken in the night.
and shall begin to beat his fellow-servants, and shall eat and drink with the drunken;
envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
They that sit in the gate talk of me; And I am the song of the drunkards.
The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold, a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners! And wisdom is justified by her works.
For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.
Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley of them that are overcome with wine!
The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold, a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit;
but as it is, I wrote unto you not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no, not to eat.
and he drank of the wine, and was drunken. And he was uncovered within his tent.
and they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
Tarry ye and wonder; take your pleasure and be blind: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men,
Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; And whosoever erreth thereby is not wise.
The earth shall stagger like a drunken man, and shall sway to and fro like a hammock; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall, and not rise again.
Jehovah hath mingled a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
For these are not drunken, as ye suppose; seeing it is but the third hour of the day.
Let him drink, and forget his poverty, And remember his misery no more.
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that tarry late into the night, till wine inflame them!
Come ye,'say they , I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to-morrow shall be as this day, a day great beyond measure.
And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.
Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, to thee that addest thy venom, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
As a thorn that goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, So is a parable in the mouth of fools.
They grope in the dark without light; And he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.
For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries:
They have stricken me,'shalt thou say , and I was not hurt; They have beaten me, and I felt it not: When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
But if that servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;
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As a thorn that goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, So is a parable in the mouth of fools.
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink;
The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under foot:
Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and wail, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.