Bible verses about "drunkenness" | Matthew

²⁹ Wher is wo? wher is sorow? where is strife? where is brauling? wher are wounds without cause? wher be reed eies? ³⁰ Euen among those that be euer at the wyne, and seke out where the best is. ³¹ Loke not thou vpon the wyne, how redde it is, & what a coloure it geueth in the glasse ³² It goeth downe softly, but at the laste it byteth lyke a serpent, & styngeth, as an Adder. ³³ So shall thyne eyes loke vnto straunge wemen, and thyne herte shal muse vpon froward thyngs. ³⁴ Yea thou shalt be as thoughe thou sleptest in the middest of that sea, or vpon the toppe of the mast. ³⁵ They wounded me (shalte thou say) but it hath not hurte me, they smote me, but I felt it not. When I am well wakened, I will go to the dryncke agayne.

²⁰ Kepe no company with wine bybbers & ryotous eaters of flesh

¹¹ Wo be vnto them that ryse vp earlye to vse them selues in dronkennes, & yet at nyght are more superfluous wyth wyne.

⁷ But they go wronge by the reason of wyne, they fall and stacker because of stronge drincke. Yea euen the Priestes and Prophetes them selues go amysse, they are droncken with wyne, & weake brayned thorowe stronge drincke. They erre in seynge, and in iudgemente they fayle.

³⁴ Take hede to your selues, lest youre hertes be ouercome with surfetinge and dronkenes and cares of this worlde: and that that day come not on you vnwares.

¹³ Let vs walke honestlye as it were in the daye lyght: not in eatynge and drynkynge: neyther in chamburynge and wantonnes, neyther in stryfe & enuiynge:

¹⁹ Either knowe ye not howe that youre bodies are the temple of the holye ghoste, whyche is in you, whome ye haue of God, and how that ye are not your owne? ²⁰ For ye are dearlye boughte. Therfore glorifye ye God in youre bodyes, and in youre spyrytes, for they are Goddes.

¹¹ For the grace of God, that bringeth saluacion vnto al men, hath apered ¹² & teacheth vs that we shoulde denye vngodlynes & worldly lustes, and that we shoulde lyue sobre mynded ryghtuouslye and Godly in this present worlde,

¹⁹ The dedes of the flesh are manyfeste, which are these aduoutrye, fornicacyon, vncleannes, wantonnes, ²⁰ Idolatrye wytchecrafte, hatred, varyaunce, zele, wrathe stryfe, sedityon, sectes, ²¹ enuiynge, murther, drounkennes, glottonye, and suche lyke: of the whiche I tell you before, as I haue tolde you in tymes past, that they whiche commytte suche thynges shall not enheryte the kingdome of God.

¹ Wine is a volupteous thynge, & dronckennes causeth sedicion: who so deliteth therin, shal neuer be wyse.

¹⁸ and be not drounke wt wyne. wherin is excesse, but be fulfylled wyth the spirite,