Bible verses about "alcohol" | BBE

⁹ Take no wine, or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the Tent of meeting, that it may not be the cause of death to you; this is an order for ever through all your generations.

²⁰ Do not be among those who give themselves to wine-drinking, or among those who make themselves full with meat: ²¹ For those who take delight in drink and feasting will come to be in need; and through love of sleep a man will be poorly clothed.

⁷ Come, take your bread with joy, and your wine with a glad heart. God has taken pleasure in your works.

²² Cursed are those who are strong to take wine, and great in making mixed drinks!

¹¹ Cursed are those who get up early in the morning to give themselves up to strong drink; who keep on drinking far into the night till they are heated with wine!

³⁴ The Son of man came feasting, and you say, Here is a lover of food and wine, a friend of tax-farmers and sinners.

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are clear, which are these: evil desire, unclean things, wrong use of the senses, ²⁰ Worship of images, use of strange powers, hates, fighting, desire for what another has, angry feelings, attempts to get the better of others, divisions, false teachings, ²¹ Envy, uncontrolled drinking and feasting, and such things: of which I give you word clearly, even as I did in the past, that they who do such things will have no part in the kingdom of God.

⁸ Deacons, in the same way, are to be serious in their behaviour, not false in word, not given to taking much wine or greatly desiring the wealth of this world;

¹⁴ He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man; so that bread may come out of the earth; ¹⁵ And wine to make glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face shining, and bread giving strength to his heart.

⁶ And in this mountain will the Lord of armies make for all peoples a feast of good things, a feast of wines long stored, of good things sweet to the taste, of wines long kept and tested. ⁷ And in this mountain he will put an end to the shade covering the face of all peoples, and the veil which is stretched over all nations. ⁸ He has put an end to death for ever; and the Lord God will take away all weeping; and he will put an end to the shame of his people in all the earth: for the Lord has said it. ⁹ And in that day it will be said, See, this is our God; we have been waiting for him, and he will be our saviour: this is the Lord in whom is our hope; we will be glad and have delight in his salvation.

¹ Ho! everyone in need, come to the waters, and he who has no strength, let him get food: come, get bread without money; wine and milk without price.

¹⁸ For John came, taking no food or drink, and they say, He has an evil spirit. ¹⁹ The Son of man has come feasting, and they say, See, a lover of food and wine, a friend of tax-farmers and sinners! And wisdom is judged to be right by her works.

²¹ It is better not to take meat or wine or to do anything which might be a cause of trouble to your brother.

²³ Do not take only water as your drink, but take a little wine for the good of your stomach, and because you are frequently ill.

²⁹ Who says, Oh! who says, Ah! who has violent arguments, who has grief, who has wounds without cause, whose eyes are dark? ³⁰ Those who are seated late over the wine: those who go looking for mixed wine. ³¹ Keep your eyes from looking on the wine when it is red, when its colour is bright in the cup, when it goes smoothly down: ³² In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake. ³³ Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things. ³⁴ Yes, you will be like him who takes his rest on the sea, or on the top of a sail-support. ³⁵ They have overcome me, you will say, and I have no pain; they gave me blows without my feeling them: when will I be awake from my wine? I will go after it again.

¹ Wine makes men foolish, and strong drink makes men come to blows; and whoever comes into error through these is not wise.

⁹ Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men, ¹⁰ Or is a thief, or the worse for drink, or makes use of strong language, or takes by force what is not his, will have any part in the kingdom of God. ¹¹ And such were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been made holy, you have been given righteousness in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are clear, which are these: evil desire, unclean things, wrong use of the senses, ²⁰ Worship of images, use of strange powers, hates, fighting, desire for what another has, angry feelings, attempts to get the better of others, divisions, false teachings, ²¹ Envy, uncontrolled drinking and feasting, and such things: of which I give you word clearly, even as I did in the past, that they who do such things will have no part in the kingdom of God. ²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith, ²³ Gentle behaviour, control over desires: against such there is no law. ²⁴ And those who are Christ's have put to death on the cross the flesh with its passions and its evil desires. ²⁵ If we are living by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us be guided.

¹⁸ And do not take overmuch wine by which one may be overcome, but be full of the Spirit;