Drunkenness
59 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
34 sections
- Ahasuerus
- Avoid Those Given To
- Belshazzar
- Benhadad
- Ben-Hadad and his Thirty-Two Confederate Kings
- Caution Against
- Corinthians
- Denunciations Against: Those Given To
- Denunciations Against: Those Who Encourage
- Elah
- Excludes from Heaven
- False Teachers often Addicted To
- Falsely Accused of Hannah
- Falsely Accused of Jesus
- Falsely Accused of The Apostles
- Figurative
- Folly of Yielding To
- Forbidden
- General Scriptures Concerning
- Leads to Contempt of God's Works
- Leads to Error
- Leads to Poverty
- Leads to Rioting and Wantonness
- Leads to Scorning
- Leads to Strife
- Leads to Woe and Sorrow
- Lot
- Nabal
- Noah
- Overcharges the Heart
- Punishment of
- Takes Away the Heart
- The Wicked Addicted To
- Uriah
Ahasuerus
- Esther 1:10–11 On the seventh day, when the king’s heart was merry with wine, he ordered the seven eunuchs who served him — Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carkas — …
Avoid Those Given To
- Proverbs 23:20 Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat.
- 1 Corinthians 5:11 But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.
Belshazzar
- Daniel 5:1–6 Later, King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he drank wine with them. …
Benhadad
- 1 Kings 20:16 They marched out at noon while Ben-hadad and the 32 kings allied with him were in their tents getting drunk.
Ben-Hadad and his Thirty-Two Confederate Kings
- 1 Kings 20:16 They marched out at noon while Ben-hadad and the 32 kings allied with him were in their tents getting drunk.
Caution Against
- Luke 21:34 But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life — and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.
Corinthians
- 1 Corinthians 11:21 For as you eat, each of you goes ahead without sharing his meal. While one remains hungry, another gets drunk.
Denunciations Against: Those Given To
- Isaiah 5:11–12 Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine. …
- Isaiah 28:1–3 Woe to the majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards, to the fading flower of his glorious splendor, set on the summit above the fertile valley, the pride of those overcome by wine. …
Denunciations Against: Those Who Encourage
- Habakkuk 2:15 Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin until they are drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!
Elah
- 1 Kings 16:9–10 However, while Elah was in Tirzah getting drunk in the house of Arza the steward of his household there, Elah’s servant Zimri, the commander of half his chariots, conspired against him. …
Excludes from Heaven
- 1 Corinthians 6:10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.
- Galatians 5:21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
False Teachers often Addicted To
- Isaiah 56:12 “Come, let me get the wine, let us imbibe the strong drink, and tomorrow will be like today, only far better!”
Falsely Accused of Hannah
- 1 Samuel 1:12–16 As Hannah kept on praying before the LORD, Eli watched her mouth. …
Falsely Accused of Jesus
- Matthew 11:19 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at this glutton and drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is vindicated by her actions.”
Falsely Accused of The Apostles
- Acts 2:13–15 But others mocked them and said, “They are drunk on new wine!” …
Figurative
- Psalm 73:10 So their people return to this place and drink up waters in abundance.
- Psalm 75:8 For a cup is in the hand of the LORD, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours from His cup, and all the wicked of the earth drink it down to the dregs.
- Isaiah 28:8 For all their tables are covered with vomit; there is not a place without filth.
- Isaiah 51:17 Awake, awake! Rise up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the LORD the cup of His fury; you who have drained the goblet to the dregs — the cup that makes men stagger.
- Isaiah 51:21–23 Therefore now hear this, you afflicted one, drunken, but not with wine. …
- Isaiah 63:6 I trampled the nations in My anger; in My wrath I made them drunk and poured out their blood on the ground.”
- Jeremiah 25:15–16 This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from My hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink from it. …
- Jeremiah 25:27–28 “Then you are to tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Drink, get drunk, and vomit. Fall down and never get up again, because of the sword I will send among you.’ …
- Jeremiah 51:7–9 Babylon was a gold cup in the hand of the LORD, making the whole earth drunk. The nations drank her wine; therefore the nations have gone mad. …
- Lamentations 3:15 He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
- Ezekiel 23:31–34 Because you have followed the path of your sister, I will put her cup into your hand.’ …
- Habakkuk 2:15–16 Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin until they are drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness! …
Folly of Yielding To
- Proverbs 20:1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
Forbidden
- Ephesians 5:18 Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.
General Scriptures Concerning
- Deuteronomy 21:20–21 and say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he does not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.” …
- Deuteronomy 29:19–21 because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry. …
- 1 Samuel 1:14 and said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Put away your wine!”
- Psalm 69:12 Those who sit at the gate mock me, and I am the song of drunkards.
- Proverbs 20:1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
- Proverbs 21:17 He who loves pleasure will become poor; the one who loves wine and oil will never be rich.
- Proverbs 23:20–21 Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat. …
- Proverbs 23:29–35 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes? …
- Proverbs 31:4–7 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to crave strong drink, …
- Isaiah 5:11–12 Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine. …
- Isaiah 5:22 Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine and champions in mixing strong drink,
- Isaiah 19:14 The LORD has poured into her a spirit of confusion. Egypt has been led astray in all she does, as a drunkard staggers through his own vomit.
- Isaiah 24:9 They no longer sing and drink wine; strong drink is bitter to those who consume it.
- Isaiah 24:11 In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land.
- Isaiah 28:1 Woe to the majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards, to the fading flower of his glorious splendor, set on the summit above the fertile valley, the pride of those overcome by wine.
- Isaiah 28:3 The majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards will be trampled underfoot.
- Isaiah 28:7–8 These also stagger from wine and stumble from strong drink: Priests and prophets reel from strong drink and are befuddled by wine. They stumble because of strong drink, muddled in their visions and stumbling in their judgments. …
- Isaiah 56:12 “Come, let me get the wine, let us imbibe the strong drink, and tomorrow will be like today, only far better!”
- Jeremiah 25:27 “Then you are to tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Drink, get drunk, and vomit. Fall down and never get up again, because of the sword I will send among you.’
- Hosea 4:11 to promiscuity, wine, and new wine, which take away understanding.
- Hosea 7:5 The princes are inflamed with wine on the day of our king; so he joins hands with those who mock him.
- Hosea 7:14 They do not cry out to Me from their hearts when they wail upon their beds. They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from Me.
- Joel 1:5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth.
- Joel 3:3 They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.
- Amos 2:8 They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines.
- Amos 2:12 “But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.
- Amos 6:1 Woe to those at ease in Zion and those secure on Mount Samaria, the distinguished ones of the foremost nation, to whom the house of Israel comes.
- Amos 6:6 You drink wine by the bowlful and anoint yourselves with the finest oils, but you fail to grieve over the ruin of Joseph.
- Micah 2:11 If a man of wind were to come and say falsely, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” he would be just the preacher for this people!
- Nahum 1:10 For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard — like stubble that is fully dry.
- Habakkuk 2:15–17 Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin until they are drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness! …
- Matthew 24:49 And he begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards.
- Luke 12:45 But suppose that servant says in his heart, ‘My master will be a long time in coming,’ and he begins to beat the menservants and maidservants, and to eat and drink and get drunk.
- Luke 21:34 But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life — and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.
- Romans 13:13 Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
- Galatians 5:19–21 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; …
- Ephesians 5:18 Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:7–8 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night. …
Leads to Contempt of God's Works
- Isaiah 5:12 At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands.
Leads to Error
- Isaiah 28:7 These also stagger from wine and stumble from strong drink: Priests and prophets reel from strong drink and are befuddled by wine. They stumble because of strong drink, muddled in their visions and stumbling in their judgments.
Leads to Poverty
- Proverbs 21:17 He who loves pleasure will become poor; the one who loves wine and oil will never be rich.
- Proverbs 23:21 For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.
Leads to Rioting and Wantonness
- Romans 13:13 Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
Leads to Scorning
- Hosea 7:5 The princes are inflamed with wine on the day of our king; so he joins hands with those who mock him.
Leads to Strife
- Proverbs 23:29–30 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes? …
Leads to Woe and Sorrow
- Proverbs 23:29–30 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes? …
Lot
- Genesis 19:33 So that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the firstborn went in and slept with her father; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.
Nabal
- 1 Samuel 25:36 When Abigail returned to Nabal, there he was in the house, holding a feast fit for a king, in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing until morning light.
Noah
- Genesis 9:21 But when he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.
Overcharges the Heart
- Luke 21:34 But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life — and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.
Punishment of
- Deuteronomy 21:20 and say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he does not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”
- Joel 1:5–6 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth. …
- Amos 6:6–7 You drink wine by the bowlful and anoint yourselves with the finest oils, but you fail to grieve over the ruin of Joseph. …
- Matthew 24:49–51 And he begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards. …
Takes Away the Heart
- Hosea 4:11 to promiscuity, wine, and new wine, which take away understanding.
The Wicked Addicted To
- Daniel 5:1–4 Later, King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he drank wine with them. …
Uriah
- 2 Samuel 11:13 Then David invited Uriah to eat and drink with him, and he got Uriah drunk. And in the evening Uriah went out to lie down on his cot with his master’s servants, but he did not go home.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.