What Does the Bible Say About Is Drinking Alcohol A Sin?

Ephesians 5:18 ESV / 10 helpful votes

And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,

1 Timothy 5:23 ESV / 8 helpful votes

(No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.)

Proverbs 20:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.

1 Timothy 3:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Deacons likewise must be dignified, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for dishonest gain.

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Galatians 5:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

1 Corinthians 6:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything.

John 2:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now.”

Luke 1:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For he will be great before the Lord. And he must not drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.

Matthew 26:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I tell you I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.”

Proverbs 31:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress;

1 Corinthians 10:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up.

1 Corinthians 8:1-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up. If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. But if anyone loves God, he is known by God. Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “an idol has no real existence,” and that “there is no God but one.” For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”— ...

Romans 14:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.

Romans 14:14-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, but it is unclean for anyone who thinks it unclean. For if your brother is grieved by what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. By what you eat, do not destroy the one for whom Christ died. So do not let what you regard as good be spoken of as evil. For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Whoever thus serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men. ...

Romans 13:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy.

John 2:1-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples. When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” ...

Habakkuk 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Woe to him who makes his neighbors drink— you pour out your wrath and make them drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!

Isaiah 40:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the Lord's hand double for all her sins. A voice cries: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.” ...

Isaiah 24:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

No more do they drink wine with singing; strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.

Isaiah 5:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Woe to those who rise early in the morning, that they may run after strong drink, who tarry late into the evening as wine inflames them!

Proverbs 31:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink,

Psalm 104:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And wine to gladden the heart of man, oil to make his face shine and bread to strengthen man's heart.

Deuteronomy 14:24-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry the tithe, when the Lord your God blesses you, because the place is too far from you, which the Lord your God chooses, to set his name there, then you shall turn it into money and bind up the money in your hand and go to the place that the Lord your God chooses and spend the money for whatever you desire—oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your appetite craves. And you shall eat there before the Lord your God and rejoice, you and your household.

Numbers 6:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar made from wine or strong drink and shall not drink any juice of grapes or eat grapes, fresh or dried.

Leviticus 10:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Drink no wine or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the tent of meeting, lest you die. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.

Exodus 29:40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And with the first lamb a tenth measure of fine flour mingled with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and a fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering.

Galatians 5:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

28 Bible Verses about Is Drinking Alcohol A Sin

Ephesians 5:18 ESV / 10 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:23 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Proverbs 20:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Galatians 5:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 2:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Luke 1:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 26:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 10:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 8:1-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 14:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Romans 13:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 2:1-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Habakkuk 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 40:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 24:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 5:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 104:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 14:24-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Numbers 6:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Leviticus 10:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 29:40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 5:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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28 Bible Verses about Is Drinking Alcohol A Sin

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Ephesians 5:18 ESV / 10 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:23 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Proverbs 20:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Galatians 5:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 2:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Luke 1:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 26:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 10:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 8:1-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 14:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 14:14-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 13:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 2:1-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Habakkuk 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 40:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 24:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 5:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 104:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 14:24-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Numbers 6:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Leviticus 10:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 29:40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 5:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote