Wine in Excess
9 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
7 sections
Forbidden
- Ephesians 5:18 Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.
Impairs the Health
- 1 Samuel 25:37 In the morning when Nabal was sober, his wife told him about these events, and his heart failed within him, and he became like a stone.
- Hosea 4:11 to promiscuity, wine, and new wine, which take away understanding.
Impairs the Judgment and Memory
- Proverbs 31:4–5 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to crave strong drink, …
- 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.
Inflames the Passions
- Isaiah 5:11 Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine.
Infuriates the Temper
- Proverbs 20:1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
Leads to Remorse
- Proverbs 23:31–32 Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly. …
Leads to Sorrow and Contention
- Proverbs 23:29–30 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes? …
Related topics
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.