Tuesday, April 21, 2009

What the Bible Says About Drinking Alcohol

Recently, the youth Sunday school talked about whether the Bible says you shouldn't drink. Unfortunately, many people don't seem to know what the Bible says! They believe things that aren't even in the Bible just because someone told them so or because they have always believed that way. My challenge to everyone is to look it up for yourself! See what God has to say to us in His Word about everything you have believed in. Don't take my word for it, read it yourself!

Here are a few verses I have found about why Christians shouldn't drink:

Prov 20:1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink a riotous brawler; and whoever errs or reels because of it is not wise.

Prov 31:4-5 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to desire strong drink,
5Lest they drink and forget the law and what it decrees, and pervert the justice due any of the afflicted.

Prov 23:29-35 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness and dimness of eyes?
30Those who tarry long at the wine, those who go to seek and try mixed wine.
31Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the wineglass, when it goes down smoothly.
32At the last it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder.
33[Under the influence of wine] your eyes will behold strange things [and loose women] and your mind will utter things turned the wrong way [untrue, incorrect, and petulant].
34Yes, you will be [as unsteady] as he who lies down in the midst of the sea, and [as open to disaster] as he who lies upon the top of a mast.
35You will say, They struck me, but I was not hurt! They beat me [as with a hammer], but I did not feel it! When shall I awake? I will crave and seek more wine again [and escape reality].

Ephesians 5:18 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery; but ever be filled and stimulated with the [Holy] Spirit.

Galatians 5: 19-21 Now the doings (practices) of the flesh are clear (obvious): they are immorality, impurity, indecency,
20Idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger (ill temper), selfishness, divisions (dissensions), party spirit (factions, sects with peculiar opinions, heresies),
21Envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you beforehand, just as I did previously, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

I Corinthians 6:9-10 Do you not know that the unrighteous and the wrongdoers will not inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived (misled): neither the impure and immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who participate in homosexuality,
10Nor cheats (swindlers and thieves), nor greedy graspers, nor drunkards, nor foulmouthed revilers and slanderers, nor extortioners and robbers will inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God.

Habakkuk 2:5 Moreover, wine and [a]wealth are treacherous; the proud man [the Chaldean invader] is restless and cannot stay at home. His appetite is large like that of Sheol and [his greed] is like death and cannot be satisfied; he gathers to himself all nations and collects all people as if he owned them.

Isaiah 5:11 Woe unto those who rise early in the morning, that they may pursue strong drink, who tarry late into the night till wine inflames them!

Isaiah 5:22 Woe to those who are mighty heroes at drinking wine and men of strength in mixing alcoholic drinks!

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