Biblical Truth About Alcohol

1. Genesis 9:20-26 - Noah became drunk; the result was immorality and family trouble.

2. Genesis 19:30-38 - Lot was so drunk he did not
   know what he was doing; this led to immorality

3. Leviticus 10:9-11 - God commanded priests not to drink so that they could tell the difference between the holy and the unholy.

4. Numbers 6:3 - The Nazarites were told to eat or
   drink nothing from the grape vine.

5. Deuteronomy 21:20 - A drunken son was stubborn and rebellious.

6. Deuteronomy 29:5-6 - God gave no grape juice to Israel nor did they have intoxicating drink in the wilderness.

7. Deuteronomy 32:33 - Intoxicating wine is like the poison of serpents, the cruel venom of asps.

8. Judges 13:4, 7, 14 - Samson was to be a Nazarite for life. His mother was told not to drink wine or strong drink.

9. 1 Samuel 1:14-15 - Accused, Hannah said she
   drank no wine.

10. 1 Samuel 25:32-38 - Nabal died after a drunken spree.

11. 2 Samuel 11:13 - By getting Uriah drunk, David hoped to cover his sin.

12. 2 Samuel 13:28-29 - Amnon was drunk when he was killed.

13. 1 Kings 16:8-10 - The king was drinking himself into drunkenness when he was assassinated

14. 1 Kings 20:12-21 - Ben-Hadad and 32 other kings were drinking when they were attacked and defeated by the Israelites.

15. Esther 1:5-12 - The king gave each one all the
    drink he wanted. The king was intoxicated when he commanded the queen to come.

16. Psalm 75:8 - The Lord’s anger is pictured as
    mixed wine poured out and drunk by the wicked.

17. Proverbs 4:17 - Alcoholic drink is called the wine of violence.

18. Proverbs 20:1 - Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging.

19. Proverbs 23:19-20 - A wise person will not be
    among the drinkers of alcoholic beverages.

20. Proverbs 23:21 - Drunkenness causes poverty.

21. Proverbs 23:29-30 - Drinking causes woe, sorrow, fighting, babbling, wounds without cause and red eyes.

22. Proverbs 23:31 - God instructs not to look at
    intoxicating drinks.

23. Proverbs 23:32 - Alcoholic drinks bite like a
    serpent, sting like an adder.

24. Proverbs 23:33 - Alcohol causes the drinker to
    have strange and adulterous thoughts, produces
    willfulness, and prevents reformation.

25. Proverbs 23:34 - Alcohol makes the drinker
    unstable

26. Proverbs 23:35 - Alcohol makes the drinker
    insensitive to pain so he does not perceive it as a
    warning. Alcohol is habit forming.

27. Proverb 31:4-5 - Kings, Princes, and others who rule and judge must not drink alcohol. Alcohol perverts good judgment.

28. Proverbs 31:6-7 - Strong drink could be given to those about to perish or those in pain. Better
    anesthetics are available today.

29. Ecclesiastes 2:3 - The king tried everything,
    including intoxicating drink, to see if it satisfied. It
    did not. (Ecclesiastes 12:8)

30. Ecclesiastes 10:17 - A land is blessed when its
    leaders do not drink.

31. Isaiah 5:11-12 - Woe to those who get up early to drink and stay up late at night to get drunk.

32. Isaiah 5:22 - Woe to "champion" drinkers and
    "experts" at mixing drinks.

33. Isaiah 19:14 - Drunken men stagger in their
    vomit.

34. Isaiah 22:12-13 - The Israelites choose to drink; their future looks hopeless to them.

35. Isaiah 24:9 - Drinkers cannot escape the
    consequences when God judges.

36. Isaiah 28:1 - God pronounces woe on the
    drunkards of Ephraim.

37. Isaiah 28:3 - Proud drunkards shall be trodden
    down.

38. Isaiah 28:7 - Priests and prophets stagger and
    reel from beer and wine, err in vision, and stumble in judgment.

39. Isaiah 28:8 - Drinkers’ tables are covered with
    vomit and filth.

40. Isaiah 56:9-12 - Drinkers seek their own gain and expect tomorrow to be just like today.

41. Jeremiah 35:2-14 - The Rechabites drank no
    grape juice or intoxicating wine and were blessed.

42. Ezekiel 44:21 - Again God instructed the priests not to drink wine.

43. Daniel 1:5-17 - Daniel refused the king’s
    intoxicating wine and was blessed for it along with his abstaining friends.

44. Daniel 5:1 - Belshazzar, ruler of Babylon; led his people in drinking.

45. Daniel 5:2-3 - The king, along with his nobles,
    wives, and concubines, drank from the goblets which had been taken from God’s temple.

46. Daniel 5:4 - Drinking wine was combined with
    praising false gods.

47. Daniel 5:23 - God sent word to Belshazzar that
    punishment would be swift for the evil he had
    committed.

48. Hosea 4:11 - Intoxicating wine takes away
    intelligence.

49. Hosea 7:5 - God reproves princes for drinking.

50. Joel 1:5 - Drunkards awake to see God’s
    judgment.

51. Joel 3:3 - The enemy is judged for selling girls for wine.

52. Amos 2:8 - Unrighteous acts of Israel included
    the drinking of wine which had been taken for the
    payment of fines.

53. Amos 2:12 - Israel is condemned for forcing
    Nazarites to drink wine.

54. Micah 2:11 - Israelites are eager to follow false
    teachers who prophesy plenty of intoxicating drinks.

55. Nahum 1:10 - The drunkards of Nineveh will be destroyed by God.

56. Habakkuk 2:5 - A man is betrayed by wine.

57. Habakkuk 2:15 - Woe to him that gives his
    neighbor drink.

58. Habakkuk 2:16 - Drinking leads to shame.

59. Matthew 24:48-51 - A drinking servant is
    unprepared for his Lord’s return.

60. Luke 1:15 - John the Baptist drank neither grape juice nor wine.

61. Luke 12:45 - Christ warned against drunkenness.

62. Luke 21:34 - Drunkenness will cause a person not to be ready for the Lord’s return.

63. Romans 13:13 - Do not walk in drunkenness or
    immorality.

64. Romans 14:21 - Do not do anything that will hurt your testimony as a believer.

65. 1 Corinthians 5:11 - If a Christian brother is a
    drinker, do not associate with him.

66. 1 Corinthians 6:10 - Drunkards will not inherit the kingdom of God

67. Galatians 5:21 - Acts of the sinful nature, such as drunkenness, will prohibit a person from inheriting the kingdom of God.

68. Ephesians 5:18 - In contrast to being drunk with wine, the believer is to be filled with the Spirit.

69. 1 Thessalonians 5:6-7 - Christians are to be alert and self-controlled, belonging to the day. Drunkards belong to the night and darkness.

70. 1 Timothy 3:2-3 - Bishops (elders) are to be
    temperate, sober, and not near any wine.

71. 1 Timothy 3:8 - Deacons are to be worthy of
    respect and not drinkers.

72. 1 Timothy 3:11 - Deacons’ wives are to be
    temperate and sober.

73. Titus 1:7-8 - An overseer is to be disciplined.

74. Titus 2:2-3 - The older men and older women of the church are to be temperate and not addicted to wine.

75. 1 Peter 4:3-4 - The past life of drunkenness and carousing has no place in the Christian’s life.

NO DRUNKARD SHALL INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF
GOD 1 COR 6,10.
GOD LOVES US.