What Does the Bible Say About Alcohol?

Proverbs 20:1

“Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.”

Ephesians 5:18

“And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;”

Proverbs 23:20-21

“Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty...”

1 Corinthians 6:10

“Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.”

Proverbs 31:4-7

“It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink: Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted...”

Galatians 5:21

“Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”

1 Peter 4:7

“But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.”