What the Bible Says About Getting Drunk
What does the Bible say about getting drunk? Many people have no idea what it says and ignore the whole issue. It is a very important issue that we should look into. There are many verses that talks negatively about drinking.
According to the Bible drinking is not wise. Proverbs 20:1 says: Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. I don’t think anybody would argue with that. Who would think that it is smart to get drunk? After all, many lives have been lost due to drunk drivers.
Next, Romans 13:13 says: Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chamboring and wantonness, not in strife and envying. Drinking causes people to do things that they are ashamed of later. Drunks do things they wouldn’t do if they were sober.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10 says: Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolators, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
Galatians 5:19-21 says: Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleaness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulatins, wrath, strife, seditians, heresies, envying, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Ephesians 5:18 says: And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit.
I think those Bible verses pretty much says it all. God has commanded us not to get drunk and that it is wrong to do so.
