Total Abstinence
16 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
Daniel
- Daniel 1:8 But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king’s food or wine. So he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself.
- Daniel 1:12 “Please test your servants for ten days. Let us be given only vegetables to eat and water to drink.
from Intoxicating Beverages
- Leviticus 10:8–10 Then the LORD said to Aaron, …
- Numbers 6:3–4 he is to abstain from wine and strong drink. He must not drink vinegar made from wine or strong drink, and he must not drink any grape juice or eat fresh grapes or raisins. …
- Judges 13:4 Now please be careful not to drink wine or strong drink, and not to eat anything unclean.
- Judges 13:13–14 So the angel of the LORD answered Manoah, “Your wife is to do everything I told her. …
- Esther 1:8 By order of the king, no limit was placed on the drinking, and every official of his household was to serve each man whatever he desired.
- Proverbs 23:20 Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat.
- Proverbs 23:31–32 Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly. …
- Proverbs 31:4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to crave strong drink,
- Jeremiah 35:6–8 “We do not drink wine,” they replied, “for our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab commanded us, ‘Neither you nor your descendants are ever to drink wine. …
- Jeremiah 35:14 The words of Jonadab son of Rechab have been carried out. He commanded his sons not to drink wine, and they have not drunk it to this very day because they have obeyed the command of their forefather. But I have spoken to you …
- Luke 1:15 for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He shall never take wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother’s womb.
Israelites in the Wilderness
- Deuteronomy 29:6 You ate no bread and drank no wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.
John the Baptist
- Matthew 11:18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon!’
- Luke 1:15 for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He shall never take wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother’s womb.
- Luke 7:33 For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon!’
Rechabites
- Jeremiah 35:6–14 “We do not drink wine,” they replied, “for our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab commanded us, ‘Neither you nor your descendants are ever to drink wine. …
Samson
- Judges 16:17 Samson told her all that was in his heart: “My hair has never been cut, because I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, my strength will leave me, and I will become as weak as any other man.”
- Judges 13:3–5 The angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, “It is true that you are barren and have no children; but you will conceive and give birth to a son. …
- Judges 13:13–14 So the angel of the LORD answered Manoah, “Your wife is to do everything I told her. …
- Numbers 6:3–4 he is to abstain from wine and strong drink. He must not drink vinegar made from wine or strong drink, and he must not drink any grape juice or eat fresh grapes or raisins. …
Related topics
ProhibitionRechabitesTents were Used by The RechabitesWineNazariteHanan
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.