what does the bible say about drinking alcohol? (if anything)?

Question

looking for specific references please, nothing more.
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SPECIFIC VERSES PLEASE...i want to locate it myself

Answer 1

(Proverbs 20:1) 20 Wine is a ridiculer, intoxicating liquor is boisterous, and everyone going astray by it is not wise.

(Proverbs 21:17) 17 He that is loving merriment will be an individual in want; he that is loving wine and oil will not gain riches.

(Proverbs 23:20-21) 20 Do not come to be among heavy drinkers of wine, among those who are gluttonous eaters of flesh. 21 For a drunkard and a glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe one with mere rags.

(Proverbs 23:29-30) 29 Who has woe? Who has uneasiness? Who has contentions? Who has concern? Who has wounds for no reason? Who has dullness of eyes? 30 Those staying a long time with the wine, those coming in to search out mixed wine.

(Ecclesiastes 2:3) 3 I explored with my heart by cheering my flesh even with wine, while I was leading my heart with wisdom, . . .

(Ecclesiastes 9:7) 7 Go, eat your food with rejoicing and drink your wine with a good heart, because already the [true] God has found pleasure in your works.

(Ecclesiastes 10:19) 19 Bread is for the laughter of the workers, and wine itself makes life rejoice; but money is what meets a response in all things.

(Isaiah 5:11) 11 Woe to those who are getting up early in the morning that they may seek just intoxicating liquor, who are lingering till late in the evening darkness so that wine itself inflames them. . .

(Isaiah 5:22) 22 Woe to those who are mighty in drinking wine, and to the men with vital energy for mixing intoxicating liquor,

(Romans 14:21) 21 It is well not to eat flesh or to drink wine or do anything over which your brother stumbles.

(Ephesians 5:18) 18 Also, do not be getting drunk with wine, in which there is debauchery, but keep getting filled with spirit,

(1 Timothy 3:8) 8 Ministerial servants should likewise be serious, not double-tongued, not giving themselves to a lot of wine, not greedy of dishonest gain,

(1 Timothy 5:23) 23 Do not drink water any longer, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent cases of sickness.

Answer 2

Ephesians 5:18 (New International Version)

Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.


Luke 12:13-21
Genisis 19:30-38

Answer 3

Ephesians 5:18-19 - "Be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord."

1 Timothy 3:3; Titus 1:7 (about elders) - "Not given to wine, no striker …"

1 Timothy 3:8 - "Deacons, in like manner, must be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre." (Note that it doesn't say not given to wine, but rather not to much wine.)

1 Timothy 5:3 - "Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities." (Both sides use this text. One says that the text says it's acceptable to drink wine in moderation. The other says, "See. Paul had to tell Timothy to take wine medicinally because he would not use it otherwise.")

Luke 7:33-34 - "For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine and ye say He hath a devil. The Son of Man came eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners." (This indicates, perhaps, that Jesus was known for drinking alcoholic wine as opposed to John who would not even drink grape juice.)

John 2 - The turning of water into wine at a wedding feast in Cana. Again, both sides argue from this one, although the stronger argument seems to me to be that Jesus turned the water into alcoholic wine, not merely grape juice. Alcohol would be common at such a feast, and nobody would praise grape juice over the wine they had been drinking if it had no alcoholic content.)

Romans 14:21 - "It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby they brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak."

1 Peter 4:3-4 - "For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatires; wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you."

Proverbs 20:1 - "Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging; and whosoever is deceived therby is not wise."

See also Proverbs 23:30-35, which accurately describes the drunkard.

Answer 4

Paul said somewhere, to have a little wine, for your stomach's sake. But a LITTLE wine won't get you drunk. The Bible also says to be drunk in God's Spirit, not in alcoholic ones.

Answer 5

Pro 20:1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.

Answer 6

The Bible says to not become drunk.

It doesnt speak against alcohol in moderation.

Personally, I dont drink.

Cordially,
John

Answer 7

As far as I know, it's not a sin to drink alcohol because people always have; but it is a sin to get drunk.

Answer 8

It sys no to let yourself be consumed by alchohol.

Basically, don't drink too much, and don't drink so much that you become addicted.

Answer 9

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