Click to join the conversation with over 500,000 Pentecostal believers and scholars
Click to get our FREE MOBILE APP and stay connected
| PentecostalTheology.com
There is more Scripture objectively condemning the use of alcoholic beverages than will be found on the subjects of lying, adultery, swearing, cheating, hypocrisy, pride, or even blasphemy.
1) Genesis 9:20-26 – Noah became drunk; the result was immorality and family trouble.
2) Genesis 19:30-38 – Lot was so drunk he did not know what he was doing; this led to immorality
3) Leviticus 10:9-11 – God commanded priests not to drink so that they could tell the difference between the holy and the unholy.
4) Numbers 6:3 – The Nazarites were told to eat or drink nothing from the grape vine.
5) Deuteronomy 21:20 – A drunken son was stubborn and rebellious.
6) Deuteronomy 29:5-6 – God gave no grape juice to Israel nor did they have intoxicating drink in the wilderness.
7) Deuteronomy 32:33 – Intoxicating wine is like the poison of serpents, the cruel venom of asps.
8) Judges 13:4, 7, 14 – Samson was to be a Nazarite for life. His mother was told not to drink wine or strong drink.
9) 1 Samuel 1:14-15 – Accused, Hannah said she drank no wine.
10) 1 Samuel 25:32-38 – Nabal died after a drunken spree.
11) 2 Samuel 11:13 – By getting Uriah drunk, David hoped to cover his sin.
12) 2 Samuel 13:28-29 – Amnon was drunk when he was killed.
13) 1 Kings 16:8-10 – The king was drinking himself into drunkenness when he was assassinated
14) 1 Kings 20:12-21 – Ben-Hadad and 32 other kings were drinking when they were attacked and defeated by the Israelites.
15) Esther 1:5-12 – The king gave each one all the drink he wanted. The king was intoxicated when he commanded the queen to come.
16) Psalm 75:8 – The Lord’s anger is pictured as mixed wine poured out and drunk by the wicked.
17) Proverbs 4:17 – Alcoholic drink is called the wine of violence.
18) Proverbs 20:1 – Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging.
19) Proverbs 23:19-20 – A wise person will not be among the drinkers of alcoholic beverages.
20) Proverbs 23:21 – Drunkenness causes poverty.
21) Proverbs 23:29-30 – Drinking causes woe, sorrow, fighting, babbling, wounds without cause and red eyes.
22) Proverbs 23:31 – God instructs not to look at intoxicating drinks.
23) Proverbs 23:32 – Alcoholic drinks bite like a serpent, sting like an adder.
24) Proverbs 23:33 – Alcohol causes the drinker to have strange and adulterous thoughts, produces willfulness, and prevents reformation.
25) Proverbs 23:34 – Alcohol makes the drinker unstable
26) Proverbs 23:35 – Alcohol makes the drinker insensitive to pain so he does not perceive it as a warning. Alcohol is habit forming.
27) Proverb 31:4-5 – Kings, Princes, and others who rule and judge must not drink alcohol. Alcohol perverts good judgment.
28) Proverbs 31:6-7 – Strong drink could be given to those about to perish or those in pain. Better anesthetics are available today.
29) Ecclesiastes 2:3 – The king tried everything, including intoxicating drink, to see if it satisfied. It did not. (Ecclesiastes 12:8)
30) Ecclesiastes 10:17 – A land is blessed when its leaders do not drink.
31) Isaiah 5:11-12 – Woe to those who get up early to drink and stay up late at night to get drunk.
32) Isaiah 5:22 – Woe to “champion” drinkers and “experts” at mixing drinks.
33) Isaiah 19:14 – Drunken men stagger in their vomit.
34) Isaiah 22:12-13 – The Israelites choose to drink; their future looks hopeless to them.
35) Isaiah 24:9 – Drinkers cannot escape the consequences when God judges.
36) Isaiah 28:1 – God pronounces woe on the drunkards of Ephraim.
37) Isaiah 28:3 – Proud drunkards shall be trodden down.
38) Isaiah 28:7 – Priests and prophets stagger and reel from beer and wine, err in vision, and stumble in judgment.
39) Isaiah 28:8 – Drinkers’ tables are covered with vomit and filth.
40) Isaiah 56:9-12 – Drinkers seek their own gain and expect tomorrow to be just like today.
41) Jeremiah 35:2-14 – The Rechabites drank no grape juice or intoxicating wine and were blessed.
42) Ezekiel 44:21 – Again God instructed the priests not to drink wine.
43) Daniel 1:5-17 – Daniel refused the king’s intoxicating wine and was blessed for it along with his abstaining friends.
44) Daniel 5:1 – Belshazzar, ruler of Babylon; led his people in drinking.
45) Daniel 5:2-3 – The king, along with his nobles, wives, and concubines, drank from the goblets which had been taken from God’s temple.
46) Daniel 5:4 – Drinking wine was combined with praising false gods.
47) Daniel 5:23 – God sent word to Belshazzar that punishment would be swift for the evil he had committed.
48) Hosea 4:11 – Intoxicating wine takes away intelligence.
49) Hosea 7:5 – God reproves princes for drinking.
50) Joel 1:5 – Drunkards awake to see God’s judgment.
51) Joel 3:3 – The enemy is judged for selling girls for wine.
52) Amos 2:8 – Unrighteous acts of Israel included the drinking of wine which had been taken for the payment of fines.
53) Amos 2:12 – Israel is condemned for forcing Nazarites to drink wine.
54) Micah 2:11 – Israelites are eager to follow false teachers who prophesy plenty of intoxicating drinks.
55) Nahum 1:10 – The drunkards of Nineveh will be destroyed by God.
56) Habakkuk 2:5 – A man is betrayed by wine.
57) Habakkuk 2:15 – Woe to him that gives his neighbor drink.
58) Habakkuk 2:16 – Drinking leads to shame.
59) Matthew 24:48-51 – A drinking servant is unprepared for his Lord’s return.
60) Luke 1:15 – John the Baptist drank neither grape juice nor wine.
61) Luke 12:45 – Christ warned against drunkenness.
62) Luke 21:34 – Drunkenness will cause a person not to be ready for the Lord’s return.
63) Romans 13:13 – Do not walk in drunkenness or immorality.
64) Romans 14:21 – Do not do anything that will hurt your testimony as a believer.
65) 1 Corinthians 5:11 – If a Christian brother is a drinker, do not associate with him.
66) 1 Corinthians 6:10 – Drunkards will not inherit the kingdom of God
67) Galatians 5:21 – Acts of the sinful nature, such as drunkenness, will prohibit a person from inheriting the kingdom of God.
68) Ephesians 5:18 – In contrast to being drunk with wine, the believer is to be filled with the Spirit.
69) 1 Thessalonians 5:6-7 – Christians are to be alert and self-controlled, belonging to the day. Drunkards belong to the night and darkness.
70) 1 Timothy 3:2-3 – Bishops (elders) are to be temperate, sober, and not near any wine.
71) 1 Timothy 3:8 – Deacons are to be worthy of respect and not drinkers.
72) 1 Timothy 3:11 – Deacons’ wives are to be temperate and sober.
73) Titus 1:7-8 – An overseer is to be disciplined.
74) Titus 2:2-3 – The older men and older women of the church are to be temperate and not addicted to wine.
75) 1 Peter 4:3-4 – The past life of drunkenness and carousing has no place in the Christian’s life.
John Kissinger [01/23/2016 9:17 AM]
SOURCE: http://www.scionofzion.com/drinking.htm
John Kissinger [01/23/2016 11:45 AM]
http://www.pentecostaltheology.com/q-to-drink-in-moderation-or-not-to-drink/
CrossTheology [01/23/2016 1:56 PM]
Maybe 1 Cor 5:11, you should have written “drunkard” instead of “drinker” 🙂
Glynn Brown [01/24/2016 10:33 AM]
There’s more positive verses on alcohol than negative ones. Alcohol was also an acceptable offering in the temple and considered holy.
Glynn Brown [01/24/2016 10:47 AM]
Noah wasn’t criticised for getting drunk,his son was the one who was criticised for mocking his father.
Lev 10:9-11 only prohibited wine or beer when the priests were going into the tent of meeting.(the priesthood wasn’t a full time job,they performed their duties in shifts)
The nazarites also couldn’t eat raisins or grapes or even jelly.
John Kissinger [01/24/2016 12:46 PM]
Noah’s drinking allowed it! https://crosstheology.wordpress.com/to-drink-or-not-to-drink/
Glynn Brown [01/24/2016 1:52 PM]
Noah was not condemned for his drunkenness, but it was Canaan his son who was cursed. And Shem and Japheth were blessed.
The story cannot be used by tee totalers ,nowhere is the wine or Noah’s drunkenness even criticised.
John Kissinger [01/24/2016 3:40 PM]
Noah’s drinking allowed it!
Glynn Brown [01/24/2016 3:56 PM]
No,his son was fully responsible for dishonoring his father.
If you blame Noah’s drinking for his son being cursed,then you have to give credit for his honarable sons being blessed because of Noah’s drinking.
John Kissinger [01/24/2016 3:57 PM]
His drinking allowed it. He was not alert to stop them
Glynn Brown [01/24/2016 3:59 PM]
No,his drinking allowed the opertuniity for his sons to do the right thing.
John Kissinger [01/24/2016 4:00 PM]
So are you saying getting drunk is NOT a sin? When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk (Genesis 9:21)
Glynn Brown [01/24/2016 4:40 PM]
Did it say in these verses that it was a sin?
No it didn’t, read the whole chapter and show me where it said Noah sinned. This was before the law.
John Kissinger [01/24/2016 4:42 PM]
so now you’re arguing getting drunk is not a sin?
Glynn Brown [01/24/2016 4:43 PM]
There are 247 verses on alcohol.
145 are positive (59%)
40 are negative (16%)
62 are neutral (25%)
Glynn Brown [01/24/2016 4:45 PM]
Why is it that we only hear about the 16% being preached?
modern church culture agenda.
John Kissinger [01/24/2016 4:51 PM]
Did Adam and Eve drink before the fall? – exactly
Glynn Brown [01/24/2016 5:47 PM]
Did Adam and Eve eat meat before the fall?
No,what’s the point?
John Kissinger [01/24/2016 5:52 PM]
I think you lost the point long time ago when you mentioned the law. Noah was before the law – we are after the law. It is sin to get drunk outside of the law. Noah sinned when he got drunk. PERIOD
Glynn Brown [01/24/2016 6:30 PM]
How would Noah know it to be a sin if he didnt have the law to tell him that it was?
Glynn Brown [01/24/2016 6:34 PM]
I think that you are reading the text with an agenda,and trying to make it say something that’s not there. You are missing the whole purpose of the story.
John Kissinger [01/24/2016 7:37 PM]
The text says Noah got drunk which allowed Noah’s son to see/uncover his fathers nakedness. What agenda do you see in this?
Glynn Brown [01/24/2016 8:25 PM]
That it’s a condemnation of Noah’s drinking,when it’s a condemnation of his son who dishonored his father.
Glynn Brown [01/24/2016 8:32 PM]
Noah saved the lives of his children by obeying God,and deserved their respect. By disrespecting his father, he disrespected God’s anointed (something David refused to do concerning king Saul) and thereby disrespected God.
You minimize all this by concentrating on him drinking wine. You’re missing the Forrest for the trees.
John Kissinger [01/24/2016 8:34 PM]
Glynn Brown there were times many years ago that I was hitting the trees on this topic so I am happy not to be hitting anything as per this one topic for many years now [if you know what I mean] Corey Forsyth
Glynn Brown [01/24/2016 8:45 PM]
Do you condemn Jesus for drinking alcohol?
Don’t you realize that we will drink wine in heaven? Matthew 26:29
Link Hudson
This list contains some inaccuracies and misrepresents scripture in some ways:
For example, “19) Proverbs 23:19-20 – A wise person will not be among the drinkers of alcoholic beverages.”
Let us look at the verses:
Proverbs 23:19-20 New King James Version (NKJV)
19 Hear, my son, and be wise;
And guide your heart in the way.
20 Do not mix with winebibbers,
Or with gluttonous eaters of meat;
(NKJV)
Is this verse condemning all who ate meat? The Old Testament commanded consumption of lamb or goat once a year and allowed others to consume meat. Priests were to eat of the altar, also. Notice the parallelism with the gluttonous and winebibbers. Look up the word ‘yayin.’ Winebibbers drink to excess. The verse does not condemn all who drink alcoholic beverages.
To those of us who believe, Christ is to us the wisdom of God and the power of God. He drank of the cup before saying, “Drink ye all of it.” He did come eating and drinking, but He was falsely accused of being a winebibber.
John-Mark Neal Hales
Where’s the link to the list of 100 verses that condone alcohol when not used in excess?
Varnel Watson
Show us in the NT – did you add them yourself ?
John-Mark Neal Hales
Did you specify NT to exclude such OT verses?
Angel Bonilla
Teetotalism is a beautiful and honorable practice and lifestyle even when is not taught in the Scriptures at all.
Varnel Watson
you must be a happy hour christian
RichardAnna Boyce
law of liberty kept by law of love in the law of faith, gives freedom to choose alcohol.
Varnel Watson
law of liberty is NO license to sin Alan Smith
RichardAnna Boyce
not a sin to settle stomach with 1 glass of wine each dinner time; as long as not a stumbling block to less mature believers.
Daniel J Hesse
If you’re happy and you know it…clap your hands.
Varnel Watson
happy hour christians – the problem of the church