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What Does the Bible Say About Drink?

Here are 12 Bible verses about drink, ordered by how relevant readers found them, with the King James Version and the modern Berean Standard Bible side by side.

  1. #1Proverbs 20:1

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

    BSBWine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

  2. #21 Timothy 5:23

    Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.

    BSBStop drinking only water and use a little wine instead, because of your stomach and your frequent ailments.

  3. #3Ephesians 5:18

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

    BSBDo not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.

  4. #41 Corinthians 10:31

    Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

    BSBSo whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God.

  5. #5Isaiah 5:11

    Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!

    BSBWoe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine.

  6. #6Romans 14:21

    It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.

    BSBIt is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything to cause your brother to stumble.

  7. #7Isaiah 5:22

    Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:

    BSBWoe to those who are heroes in drinking wine and champions in mixing strong drink,

  8. #8Galatians 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.

    BSBand envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

  9. #9Romans 13:13

    Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

    BSBLet us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.

  10. #101 Timothy 3:8

    Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

    BSBDeacons likewise must be dignified, not double-tongued or given to much wine or greedy for money.

  11. #11Ecclesiastes 9:7

    Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.

    BSBGo, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already approved your works:

  12. #12Isaiah 28:7

    But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

    BSBThese also stagger from wine and stumble from strong drink: Priests and prophets reel from strong drink and are befuddled by wine. They stumble because of strong drink, muddled in their visions and stumbling in their judgments.

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