106 verses about addiction

He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent.

Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him.

They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she arose.

It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine again, tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line.”

They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger went and lay with him. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she got up.

They shall tell 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.”

Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing, until the morning light.

His servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him. Now he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah;

When Ben Hadad heard this message, as he was drinking, he and the kings, in the pavilions, he said to his servants, “Prepare to attack!” They prepared to attack the city.

They went out at noon. But Ben Hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings who helped him.

On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcass, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,

Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.

but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.

She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it.

You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.

for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.

Wine is a mocker, and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

He who loves pleasure shall be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil shall not be rich.

The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit. He who is under Yahweh’s wrath will fall into it.

put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.

Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:

for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well.

Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?

Those who stay long at the wine; those who go to seek out mixed wine.

Don’t look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.

In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.

Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing things.

Yes, you will be as he who lies down in the middle of the sea, or as he who lies on top of the rigging:

“They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don’t feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I can find another.”

Like a thorn bush that goes into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

It is not for kings, Lemuel; it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes to say, ‘Where is strong drink?’

lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.

Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.

Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!

Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at mixing strong drink;

They will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it.

Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!

The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden under foot.

They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.

For all tables are completely full of filthy vomit and filthiness.

Therefore now hear this, you afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:

“Come,” say they, “I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be as today, great beyond measure.”

“You shall tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Drink, and be drunk, vomit, fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.”’

Babylon has been a golden cup in Yahweh’s hand, who made all the earth drunk. The nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations have gone mad.

When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says Yahweh.

Yet she multiplied her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth, in which she had played the prostitute in the land of Egypt.

You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of your sister Samaria.

They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.

Their drink has become sour. They play the prostitute continually. Her rulers dearly love their shameful way.

Their deeds won’t allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they don’t know Yahweh.

On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers.

Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies: “I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink”; he would be the prophet of this people.

For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.

You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy.

Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. A haughty man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.

“Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!

You are filled with shame, and not glory. You will also drink, and be exposed! The cup of Yahweh’s right hand will come around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory.

And what you yourself hate, do to no man. Don’t drink wine to drunkenness, and don’t let drunkenness go with you on your way.

Holofernes said to her, “Drink now, and be merry with us.”

Holofernes took great delight in her, and drank exceeding much wine, more than he had drunk at any time in one day since he was born.

But Judith was left alone in the tent, with Holofernes lying along upon his bed; for he was drunk with wine.

Now on the seventh day, the king, being merry, told Haman, Bazan, Tharrha, Baraze, Zatholtha, Abataza, and Tharaba, the seven chamberlains, servants of king Ahasuerus,

Go not after your lusts; And refrain yourself from your appetites.

A workman that is a drunkard will not become rich: He that despises small things will fall by little and little.

Wine and women will make men of understanding to fall away: And he that cleaves to harlots will be the more reckless.

A man that is accustomed to words of reproach Will not be corrected all the days of his life.

All bread is sweet to a fornicator: He will not leave off till he die.

A drunken woman causes great wrath; And she will not cover her own shame.

It is a stumbling block to those who sacrifice to it; And every fool shall be taken therewith.

Show not yourself valiant in wine; For wine has destroyed many.

Wine drunk largely is bitterness of soul, With provocation and conflict.

Drunkenness increases the rage of a fool to his hurt; It diminishes strength, and adds wounds.

and said thus, O sirs, how exceeding strong is wine! it causes all men to err that drink it:

but when they awake from their wine, they remember not what they have done.

O sirs, is not wine the strongest, seeing that it enforces to do thus? And when he had so spoken, he held his peace.

He proceeded to Egypt, grew worse in wickedness through his before mentioned companions in wine, who were lost to all goodness;

Then Hermon, who had filled his merciless elephants with copious draughts of mingled wine and frankincense, came early to the palace to certify the kind thereof.

Since in what way is a solitary eater, and a glutton, and a drunkard reclaimed, unless it be clear that reasoning is lord of the passions?

and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards,

because he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the fetters broken in pieces. Nobody had the strength to tame him.

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

Others, mocking, said, “They are filled with new wine.”

For these aren’t drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is only the third hour of the day.

Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;