Original collection
DRUNKENNESS Lk 21:34, Rom 13:13, 1 Cor 5:10, 6:10, 15:34, Gal 5:21, Eph 5:18, 1 Thes 5:7-8, 1 Pet 4:3
Key KJV Scriptures:
Proverbs 20:1; 23:29-35; Romans 13:13; 1 Corinthians 6:10,12; Galatians 5:21; Ephesians 5:18; 1 Peter 4:3
Key KJV Scriptures: Full Text
101 indexed verses · Showing 1–40. Read each passage in its chapter context.
Genesis 9:21 (KJV)
And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
Genesis 19:33 (KJV)
And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
Deuteronomy 21:20 (KJV)
And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
Deuteronomy 21:21 (KJV)
And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
Deuteronomy 29:19 (KJV)
And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
Deuteronomy 29:20 (KJV)
The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.
Deuteronomy 29:21 (KJV)
And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:
1 Samuel 1:12 (KJV)
And it came to pass, as she continued praying before the LORD, that Eli marked her mouth.
1 Samuel 1:13 (KJV)
Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.
1 Samuel 1:14 (KJV)
And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.
1 Samuel 1:15 (KJV)
And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD.
1 Samuel 1:16 (KJV)
Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.
1 Samuel 25:36 (KJV)
And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
2 Samuel 11:13 (KJV)
And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house.
1 Kings 16:9 (KJV)
And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza steward of his house in Tirzah.
1 Kings 20:16 (KJV)
And they went out at noon. But Benhadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him.
Esther 1:10 (KJV)
On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,
Esther 1:11 (KJV)
To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair to look on.
Psalms 69:12 (KJV)
They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
Psalms 73:10 (KJV)
Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.
Psalms 75:8 (KJV)
For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
Proverbs 20:1 (KJV)
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Proverbs 21:17 (KJV)
He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.
Proverbs 23:20 (KJV)
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
Proverbs 23:21 (KJV)
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Proverbs 23:29 (KJV)
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
Proverbs 23:30 (KJV)
They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Proverbs 23:31 (KJV)
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
Proverbs 23:32 (KJV)
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Proverbs 23:33 (KJV)
Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
Proverbs 23:34 (KJV)
Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
Proverbs 23:35 (KJV)
They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
Proverbs 31:4 (KJV)
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:
Proverbs 31:5 (KJV)
Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
Proverbs 31:6 (KJV)
Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.
Proverbs 31:7 (KJV)
Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
Isaiah 5:11 (KJV)
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
Isaiah 5:12 (KJV)
And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
Isaiah 5:22 (KJV)
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
Isaiah 19:14 (KJV)
The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
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