75 Biblical Truths About Alcohol and Alcoholism.
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.
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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 – Nabel 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 – Ammon 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.
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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 drink by the wicked.
17) Proverbs 4:17 – Alcoholic drink is called the wine of violence.
18) Proverb 20:1) Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a raging.
19) Proverbs 23:19,20 – A wise person will not24 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 bites 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) Proverbs 31:4,5- Kings, Princess and others who rule and judge must not drink alcohol. Alcohol perverts good judgement.
28) Proverbs 31:6,7- Strong drink could be given to those about to perish or those in pain. Better anesthetic 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 unto the drunkards of Ephraim.
37) Isaiah 28:3- Proud drunkards shall be trodden down.
38) Isaiah 28:7- Priests and Prophets staggerda and reel from beer and wine, err in vision and stumble in judgement.
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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 5:3- 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 princess for drinking.
50) Joel 1:5- Drunkards awake to see God’s judgement.
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 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 Neniveh 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- Act 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) 1Timothy 3:2,3 Bishops (elders) are to be temperate, sober and 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 the 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.
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