Genesis 9:20-26
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The first drunkenness and the attendant immoral behaviour.
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Genesis 19:30-38
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Drinking results in Lot's debauchery and incest of his own daughters.
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Genesis 27:25
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Isaac was drinking when he mistakenly blessed Jacob.
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Leviticus 10:9
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An express command not to drink.
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Numbers 6:3
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The vow of the Nazarite.
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Deuteronomy 21:20
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Drinking leads to stubbornness, rebellion, gluttony which brings dishonour to parents.
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Deuteronomy 29:2-6
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Abstinence assures a closer walk with God.
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Judges 13:4,7,14
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Samson's mother, an example of all womanhood, was commanded not to drink. Was alcohol recognized even then as harmful to the growing baby?
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1 Samuel 1:14-15
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Hannah, an example of honoured motherhood, refrained from drinking wine.
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1 Samuel 25:32-38
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Nabal, a rich but churlish man who opposed David, died after a drunken spree. He had already lost his wife's respect.
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2 Samuel 11:13
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By having Uriah plied with strong drink, David attempted to cover his own sin.
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2 Samuel 13:28-29
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Ammon, in a drunken brawl, was murdered by his brother, Absalom.
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1 Kings 16:8-10
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While a king was "drinking himself drunk" in his own home, one of his captains conspired against him and slew him.
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1 Kings 20:12-21
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Drink and war - while Ben Hadad and thirty-two other kings were drinking in their pavilions, a small band of Israel's men fell upon the Syrians and put them to flight.
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Esther 1:5-12
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Drink wrecks homes and separates man and wife. At a week's feast of food and wine, King Ahasuerus drunkenly tried to subject his queen to the beastly gaze of inebriated nobles, causing separation of the royal husband and wife.
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Job 1:18-19
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The children of Job were feasting and drinking when blown away in a cyclone.
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Proverbs 4:17
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Violence results from drinking.
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Proverbs 20:1
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No wise man will indulge.
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Proverbs 21:17
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He that loveth wine is not rich.
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Proverbs 23:21
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Drinking leads to poverty.
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Proverbs 23:29-30
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Strong drink produces sorrow, contentions, wounds without cause, babbling, and redness of eyes.
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Proverbs 23:31
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Do not be tempted by intoxicants.
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Proverbs 23:32
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God's Word warns that liquor eventually harms all who drink.
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Proverbs 23:33
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It fills men's minds with adulterous and impure thoughts.
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Proverbs 23:33
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It produces wilfulness and prevents reformation.
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Proverbs 23:34
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Drink brings insecurity.
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Proverbs 23:35
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Insensibility follows drinking, rendering a man as a clod.
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Proverbs 23:35
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Drinking is habit-forming. One drink calls for another.
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Proverbs 31:4-5
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Kings and all other rulers or officials with the weight of human lives in their control should not indulge.
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Proverbs 31:6-7
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The only sanction for the use of strong drink was as a medicine or anaesthetic for those about to die. We now know better medicines and anaesthetic than whiskey, wine, or beer.
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Ecclesiastes 2:3; 12:8
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The writer of Ecclesiastes tried strong drink, but in the end was forced to admit that it too is vanity
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Ecclesiastes 10:17
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Blessings are promised to the temperate and abstaining nation.
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Isaiah 5:11-12
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Woe comes to the drunkards.
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Isaiah 5:22
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More woes to them that drink.
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Isaiah 22:13
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Drinking and carnality go together and leave men hopeless.
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Isaiah 24:9
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Drink is bitter to them that drink it.
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Isaiah 28:1
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Woe comes to the drunkard of Ephraim.
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Isaiah 28:3
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The pride of drunkards will be trodden down.
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Isaiah 28:7
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Prophets and priests erred through drink.
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Isaiah 28:7
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Those who drink are set aside as useless.
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Isaiah 28:7
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Prophets and priests are finally swallowed up by drink.
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Isaiah 28:7
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Drinking brings on spiritual blindness.
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Isaiah 56:9-12
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A rebuke to drinking church members, his watchmen.
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Jeremiah 35: 5-6, 8, 14
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Total abstinence of the Rechabites cited as an example of obedience on the part of God's people.
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Ezekiel 44:21
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Priests are not to drink wine.
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Daniel 1:5,8,16; 10:3
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God honoured Daniel because he abstained from the king's wine. Daniel, the man, was true to the home training he had received as a boy.
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Daniel 5:1
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Belshazzar exhibited as an example of a leader who drank and taught his people to drink.
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Daniel 5:2,23
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This was a nation whose women drink.
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Daniel 5:5-9,25-28
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Ruin and downfall for nations whose rulers and leaders cause them to drink.
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Daniel 5:3
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Balshazzar's sacrilege in using sacred temple vessels for liquor.
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Hosea 3:1
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Part of Hosea's wife's degradation was induced by drink.
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Hosea 4:11
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Strong drink and immorality go hand in hand.
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Hosea 7:5
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The King and people reproved because of drinking.
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Joel 1:5
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Drunkards are to awake from their drinking.
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Joel 3.3
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Young virtue sold for the price of drink.
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Amos 2:8
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Wine is the drink of the condemned.
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Amos 1:12
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Drink is the pollution of the innocent.
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Amos 4:1
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Dissolute women and oppressors of the poor call for their liquor.
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Amos 6:6
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Drinkers are not concerned about God nor the welfare of others.
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Nahum 1:10
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Drunkards will be destroyed.
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Habakkuk 2:5
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Arrogance is inflamed by drink.
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Habakkuk 2:15
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It is wrong to give one's neighbour drink - no social drinking.
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Habakkuk 2:16
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Drink leads to shame and humiliation.
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Matthew 24:48-51
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Drunkards warned about the return of Christ and His judgment.
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Luke 1:15
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Greatness of John the Baptist linked with his total abstinence.
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Luke 12:45
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Christ warns against being enmeshed in drunken evils.
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Luke 21:34
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Warning against drunkenness and the cares of this life, keeping one occupied to the exclusion of the Spirit.
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Romans 13:13
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All are admonished to walk honestly, not in rioting and drunkenness. It is not honest to be less than men, created in the image of God.
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Romans 14:21
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Drinking causes a brother to stumble. Importance of example.
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1 Corinthians 6:10
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No drunkard shall inherit the kingdom of God. (Therefore the preaching of the Gospel must include preaching against the use of alcohol.)
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1 Corinthians 11:25
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The Lord's Supper no place for wine. Word "wine" not even used. Instead all accounts say "the cup" or "fruit of the vine."
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Galatians 5:21
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Revellers in drunkenness shall not inherit the Kingdom of God.
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Ephesians 5:18
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Direct command that exhilaration shall be of the Spirit and not by wine.
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1 Thessalonians 5:7
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Sobriety enjoined upon the Thessalonians. Children of light must not be overcome by darkness.
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1 Timothy 3:3,8,11-12
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Church officers must not drink; neither should their families.
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