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 41–80. Read each passage in its chapter context.
Isaiah 24:9 (KJV)
They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
Isaiah 24:11 (KJV)
There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
Isaiah 28:1 (KJV)
Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
Isaiah 28:3 (KJV)
The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
Isaiah 28:7 (KJV)
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.
Isaiah 28:8 (KJV)
For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
Isaiah 51:17 (KJV)
Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.
Isaiah 51:21 (KJV)
Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:
Isaiah 51:22 (KJV)
Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:
Isaiah 51:23 (KJV)
But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.
Isaiah 56:12 (KJV)
Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.
Isaiah 63:6 (KJV)
And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.
Jeremiah 25:15 (KJV)
For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.
Jeremiah 25:16 (KJV)
And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
Jeremiah 25:27 (KJV)
Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.
Jeremiah 25:28 (KJV)
And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink.
Jeremiah 51:7 (KJV)
Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD'S hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
Jeremiah 51:8 (KJV)
Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
Jeremiah 51:9 (KJV)
We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.
Lamentations 3:15 (KJV)
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
Ezekiel 23:31 (KJV)
Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thine hand.
Ezekiel 23:32 (KJV)
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.
Ezekiel 23:33 (KJV)
Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
Ezekiel 23:34 (KJV)
Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
Daniel 5:1 (KJV)
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
Daniel 5:2 (KJV)
Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
Daniel 5:3 (KJV)
Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them.
Daniel 5:4 (KJV)
They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
Daniel 5:5 (KJV)
In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
Daniel 5:6 (KJV)
Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
Hosea 4:11 (KJV)
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
Hosea 7:5 (KJV)
In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
Hosea 7:14 (KJV)
And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.
Joel 1:5 (KJV)
Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
Joel 3:3 (KJV)
And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
Amos 2:8 (KJV)
And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
Amos 2:12 (KJV)
But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
Amos 6:1 (KJV)
Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!
Amos 6:6 (KJV)
That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
Micah 2:11 (KJV)
If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.
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