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 shall clothe a man with rags.
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.
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 be drunken are drunken in the night.
And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.
For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys 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 drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an 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.
Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
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 mankind,
Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD, 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 is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err 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 continue until 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, and much more abundant.
And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.
Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
As a thorn 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 of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;
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Drunkards » Drunkards, general references to
As a thorn 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, 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 be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.