75 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