What Does the Bible Say About Wine?
Here are 10 Bible verses about wine, ordered by how relevant readers found them, with the King James Version and the modern Berean Standard Bible side by side.
- #11 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.
- #2Ephesians 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.
- #3Proverbs 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.
- #4Proverbs 31:6
Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.
BSBGive strong drink to one who is perishing, and wine to the bitter in soul.
- #5Psalms 104:15
And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man’s heart.
BSBwine that gladdens the heart of man, oil that makes his face to shine, and bread that sustains his heart.
- #6Isaiah 25:6
And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
BSBOn this mountain the LORD of Hosts will prepare a banquet for all the peoples, a feast of aged wine, of choice meat, of finely aged wine.
- #7Romans 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.
- #8Isaiah 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.
- #9Titus 2:3
The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
BSBOlder women, likewise, are to be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers or addicted to much wine, but teachers of good.
- #10Numbers 6:3
He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.
BSBhe is to abstain from wine and strong drink. He must not drink vinegar made from wine or strong drink, and he must not drink any grape juice or eat fresh grapes or raisins.
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Wine in Torrey's Topical Textbook
- First mention of: Ge 9:20,21
- WAS MADE OF
- The juice of the grape: Ge 49:11
- The juice of the pomegranate: So 8:2
- First mode of making, notice: Ge 40:11
- Generally made by treading the grapes in a press: Ne 13:15; Isa 63:2,3
- Refining of, alluded to: Isa 25:6
- Improved by age: Lu 5:39
- PLACES CELEBRATED FOR
- Canaan in general: De 33:28
- Possessions of Judah: Ge 49:8,11,12
- Lebanon: Ho 14:7
- Helbon: Eze 27:18
- Assyria: 2Ki 18:32; Isa 36:17
- Moab: Isa 16:8-10; Jer 48:32,33
- Many kinds of: Ne 5:18
- Sweet, esteemed for flavour and strength: Isa 49:26; Am 9:13; Mic 6:15
- Red, most esteemed: Pr 23:31; Isa 27:2
- Often spiced to increase its strength, &c: Pr 9:2,5; 23:30; So 8:2
- WAS USED
- As a beverage from the earliest age: Ge 9:21; 27:25
- At all feasts and entertainments: Es 1:7; 5:6; Isa 5:12; Da 5:1-4; Joh 2:3
- For drink offerings in the worship of God: Ex 29:40; Nu 15:4-10
- For drink offerings in idolatrous worship: De 32:37,38
- As a medicine: Lu 10:34; 1Ti 5:23
- First fruits of, to be offered to God: De 18:4; 2Ch 31:5
- With corn and oil, denoted all temporal blessings: Ge 27:28,37; Ps 4:7; Ho 2:8; Joe 2:19
- Given in abundance to the Jews when obedient: Ho 2:22; Joe 2:19,24; Zec 9:17
- The Jews frequently deprived of, as a punishment: Isa 24:7,11; Ho 2:9; Joe 1:10; Hag 1:11; 2:16
- The Jews frequently drank, to excess: Isa 5:11; Joe 3:3; Am 6:6
- In times of scarcity, was mixed with water: Isa 1:22
- Sometimes mixed with milk as a beverage: So 5:1
- CHARACTERISED AS
- Cheering God and man
- Jud 9:13: Zec 9:17
- Gladdening the heart: Ps 104:15
- Strengthening: 2Sa 16:2; So 2:5
- Making mirthful: Es 1:10; Ec 10:19
- Custom of presenting to travellers: Ge 14:18; 1Sa 25:18
- Custom of giving to persons in pain or suffering, mixed with
- drugs: Pr 31:6; Mr 15:23
- Forbidden to the priests while engaged in the tabernacle: Le 10:9
- Forbidden to Nazarites during their separation: Nu 6:3
- The Rechabites never drank: Jer 35:5,6
- IN EXCESS
- Forbidden: Eph 5:18
- Infuriates the temper: Pr 20:1
- Impairs the health: 1Sa 25:37; Ho 4:11
- Impairs the judgment and memory: Pr 31:4,5; Isa 28:7
- Inflames the passions: Isa 5:11
- Leads to sorrow and contention: Pr 23:29,30
- Leads to remorse: Pr 23:31,32
- An article of extensive commerce: Eze 27:18
- Was stored in cellars: 1Ch 27:27
- Was kept in bottles: 1Sa 25:18; Hab 2:15
- Consequence of putting (when new), into old bottles: Mt 2:22
- The love of Christ to be preferred to: So 1:2,4
- Water miraculously turned into: Joh 2:9
- ILLUSTRATIVE
- Of the blood of Christ: Mt 26:27-29
- Of the blessing of the gospel: Pr 9:2,5; Isa 25:6; 55:1
- Of the wrath and judgments of God: Ps 60:3; 75:8; Jer 13:12-14; 25:15-18
- Of the abominations of the apostasy: Re 17:2; 18:3
- Of violence and rapine: Pr 4:17