75 BIBLICAL REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD NOT DRINK ALCOHOL

75 BIBLICAL REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD NOT
DRINK 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

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