Drinking, Drunkenness, and Alcoholism

Genesis 9:20,21,22,23 And Noah began to be an husbandman, 
and he planted a vineyard:

And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was
uncovered within his tent.

And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his 
father, and told his two brethren

And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon
both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the
nakedness of their father; and their faces were
backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.

Genesis 9:24,25,26 And Noah awoke from his wine, and
knew what his younger son had done unto him.

And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants 
shall he be unto his brethren.

And he said, Blessed be he Lord God of Shem; and Canaan 
shall be his servant.

Genesis 9:27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall 
dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his 
servant.

Leviticus 10:9,10 do not drink wine nor strong drink, 
thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the 
Tabernacle of the congregation lest ye die: it shall 
be a statute for ever throughout your generations.

And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the 
statutes which the Lord hath spoken unto them by the 
hand of Moses.

Deuteronomy 21:18,19,20 If a man have a stubborn and 
rebellious son, which will not hear the voice of his 
father, or the voice of his mother, and that when 
they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

Then shall his father and his  mother lay hold on him, 
and bring him out unto the elders of the city, and 
unto the gate of his place;

And they shall say to 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.

Deuteronomy 21:21 And all the men of his city shall 
stone him with stones, that he die; so shall thou 
put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall 
hear and fear.

Deuteronomy 29:19,20 And it come to pass, when he 
heareth the words of this curse, that he bless 
himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, 
though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to 
add drunkenness to thirst:

The Lord will not spare him, but then the anger of 
the Lord and His jealousy shall smoke against the 
man, and all the curses that are written in this 
book shall lie upon him, and the Lord shall blot 
out his name from under heaven.

I Samuel 25:36,37,38 And Abigail came to Nabal; and 
behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast 
of a king; and Nabal's heart was angry within him, 
for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him 
nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was 
gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these 
things, that his heart died within him, and he became 
as a stone.

And it came to pass about ten days after, that the 
Lord smote Nabal, that he died. 

I Kings 16:8,9 In the twenty and sixth year of Asa 
king of Judah began Elah the son of Baasha to reign 
over Israel in Tirzah, two years.

And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, 
conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking 
himself drunk in the house of Arza steward of his 
house in Tirzah.

I Kings 20:16,17,18 And they went out at noon. But 
Ben Hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavillions, 
he and the thirty and two kings that helped him.

And the young men of the princes of the provinces went 
out first; and Ben Hadad sent out, and they told him, 
saying, There are men come out of Samaria.

And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take 
them alive; or whether they be come out for war, take 
them alive.

I Kings 20:19,20,21 So these young men of the princes 
of the provinces came out of the city, and the army 
which followed them.

And they slew every one his man: and the Syrians fled; 
and Israel prusued them: and Ben Hadad the king of 
Syria escaped on an horse wih the horsemen.

And the king of Israel went out and smote the horses 
and the chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great 
slaughter.

Job 12:24,25 He taketh away the heart of the chief of 
the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander 
in a wilderness where there is no way.

They grope in the dark without light, and He maketh 
them to stagger like a drunken man.

Psalm 107:26,27,28 They mount up to the heaven, they go 
down again to the depths: their soul is melted because 
of trouble.

They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, 
and are at their wit's end.

Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and He 
bringeth them out of their distresses.

Psalm 107:29,30,31 He maketh the storm a calm, so that 
the waves thereof ae still.

Then they are glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth 
them unto their desired haven.

Psalm 107:31 Oh that men would praise the Lord for His 
goodness and for His wonderful works to the children 
of men!

Proverbs 21:17 He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor 
man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

Proverbs 23:20,21 Be not among winebibbers; among 
riotous eaters of flesh:

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: 
and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

Proverbs 26:9 As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a 
drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

Proverbs 31:4,5 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not 
for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink.

Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert judgment 
of any of the afflicted.

Proverbs 21:6,7 Give strong drink unto him that is ready 
to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.

Let him drink,and forget his poverty, and remember his 
misery no more.

Isaiah 5;11,12 Woe unto them that rise up early in the 
morning that they may follow strong drink; that continue 
until night, till wine inflame them!

Isaiah 19:14,15,16 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.

Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head
or tail, branch or rush, may do.

In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be 
afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the
Lord of Hosts, which He shaketh over it.

Isaiah 24:17,18,19 Fear and the pit, and the snare, are 
upon thee, O inhabitant of earth.

And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the 
noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that 
cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in 
the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and 
the foundations of the earth do shake.

The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean 
dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly. 

Isaiah 24:20,21,22 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.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall 
punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the 
kings of the earth upon the earth.

And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are 
gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, 
and after many days shall they be visited.

Isaiah 28:1 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! 

Isaiah 28:3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, 
shall be trodden under feet:

Isaiah 28:7 But they also have erred through wine, and 
through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and 
the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are 
swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through 
strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in 
judgment.

Isaiah 49:25,26 But saith the Lord, Even the captives of 
the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the 
terrible shall be delivered: for I wil contend with him 
that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.

And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own 
flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, 
as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I 
the Lord am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the Mighty 
One of Jacob

Jeremiah 25:27,28,29 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, 
Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, 
and be drunken, and spew, and fall, and rise no more, 
because of the sword which I will send among you.

And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine 
hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith 
the Lord of Hosts; Ye shall certainly drink.

For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called 
by My name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall 
not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all 
the inhabitants of the earth, saith the Lord of Hosts.

Jeremiah 48:25,26,27 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his
arm is broken, saith the Lord.

Make him drunken: for he magnified himself against the 
Lord: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also 
shall be in derision.

For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found 
among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou 
skippedst for joy.

Jeremiah 51:7,8,9 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the
Lord's hand, that made all the earth drunken of her wine;
therefore the nations are mad.

Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her;
take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed:
forsake her, and let us go everyone into his own country:
for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up 
even to the skies.

Jeremiah 51:37,38,39 And Babylon shall become heaps, a
dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing,
without an inhabitant

They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as
lions' whelps.

In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make 
them drunken, that they may sleep a perpetual sleep, and 
not wake, saith the Lord,

Lamentations 4:21,22 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of 
Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also 
shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, 
and shalt make thyself naked.

The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O 
daughter of Zion; He will no more carry thee away 
into captivity: He will visit thine iniquity, O 
daughter of Edom; He will discover thy sins.

Ezekiel 23:32,33,34 Thus saith the Lord God; Thou 
shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large: thou 
shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it 
containeth much.

Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with 
the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of 
thy sister Samaria.

Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt
break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own 
breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.

Ezekiel 23:35 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because 
thou hast forgotten Me, and cast Me behind thy back, 
therefore bear thy lewness and thy whoredoms.

Hosea 4:11 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the 
heart.

Hosea 4:18 Their drink is sour: they have committed 
whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, 
Give ye.

Joel 1:5,6,7 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 nation is come up upon My land, strong, and without 
number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath 
the cheek teeth of a great lion.

He hath laid My vine waste, and barked at My fig tree: 
he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the 
branches thereof are made white.

Joel 3:3 And they have cast lots for My people; and have 
given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that 
they might drink.

Amos 2:12 But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink: and 
commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.

Nahum 1:10 For while they are folden together as thorns; 
and while they are drunken as drunkards,they shall be 
devoured as stubble fully dry.

Habakkuk 2:5 Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, 
he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth 
his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be 
satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth 
unto him all people.

Habakkuk 2:15,16 Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor 
drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him 
drunk also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!

Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, 
and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the Lord's 
right  hand shall be turned to thee, and shameful spewing 
shall be on thy glory.

Matthew 24:48,49,50,51 But and if that evil servant shall 
say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; 

And shall begin to smite his fellow-servants, and to eat 
and to drink with the drunken;

The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he 
looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not 
aware of,

And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion
with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing
of teeth.

Luke 21:34,35,36 And take heed to yourselves, lest at 
any time your hearts be overcharged surfeiting, and 
drunkenness, and cares of this life, so that day come 
upon you unawares.

For as a snare it come on all those that dwell on the face 
of the whole earth.

Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be counted 
worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, 
and to stand before the Son of Man.

Romans 13:13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day, not in 
rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, 
not in strife and envying.

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision 
for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

Romans 14:21 It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink 
wine, nor anything whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is 
offended, or is made weak.

I Corinthians 5:8,9,10 Therefore let us keep the feast, 
not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice 
and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity 
and truth.

I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with 
fornicators:

Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or 
with the coveteous, or extorioners, or with idolaters; for 
then must ye needs go out of the world.

I Corinthians 5:11,12,13 But now I have written unto you not 
to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a 
fornicator, or coveteous, or an idolater, or a railer or a 
drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do 
not ye judge them that are within?

But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from 
among yourselves that wicked person.

Galatians 5:19,20,21 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, 
which are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, 
lasciviousness,

Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, 
strife, seditions, heresies, Envying, murders, drunkenness, 
revelings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, 
as I have also told you in times past, that they which do 
such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

I Corinthians 6:9,10 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,

Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor 
extortioners, shall inhereit the kingdom of God.

Galatians 5:22,23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, 
peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith.

Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

Ephesians 5:18 An be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; 
but be filled with the Spirit;

I Thessalonians 5:7,8 For they that sleep in the night; and 
they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the 
breastplate of faith and love; for an helmet, the hope of 
salvation.

Titus 2:11,12 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath 
appeared to all men,

Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we 
should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present 
world;

Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the 
great God and our blessed Saviour Jesus Christ;

I Peter 4:2,3 That he no longer should live in the rest of his 
time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

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, revelings, banquetings, and abominable 
idolatries:

I Peter 4:7 But the end of all thngs is at hand: be ye therefore 
sober, and watch unto prayer.

And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for 
charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

I Peter 5:8,9 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the 
devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may 
devour:

Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same 
afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in 
the world.

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