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Negative wine verses in the Bible
1 Peter (1 verses)
1 Peter 4:3
NegativeFor the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
1 Samuel (3 verses)
1 Samuel 1:14
NegativeAnd Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.
1 Samuel 1:15
NegativeAnd Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD.
1 Samuel 25:37
NegativeBut it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
1 Timothy (2 verses)
1 Timothy 3:3
NegativeNot given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
1 Timothy 3:8
NegativeLikewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
Amos (1 verses)
Amos 2:8
NegativeAnd 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.
Daniel (3 verses)
Daniel 1:5
NegativeAnd the king appointed them a daily provision of the king's meat, and of the wine which he drank: so nourishing them three years, that at the end thereof they might stand before the king.
Daniel 1:8
NegativeBut Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.
Daniel 1:16
NegativeThus Melzar took away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they should drink; and gave them pulse.
Deuteronomy (1 verses)
Deuteronomy 32:33
NegativeTheir wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
Ephesians (1 verses)
Ephesians 5:18
NegativeAnd be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
Genesis (6 verses)
Genesis 9:21
NegativeAnd he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
Genesis 9:24
NegativeAnd Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.
Genesis 19:32
NegativeCome, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
Genesis 19:33
NegativeAnd they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
Genesis 19:34
NegativeAnd it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
Genesis 19:35
NegativeAnd they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
Habakkuk (1 verses)
Habakkuk 2:5
NegativeYea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:
Hosea (3 verses)
Hosea 3:1
NegativeThen said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.
Hosea 4:11
NegativeWhoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
Hosea 7:5
NegativeIn the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
Isaiah (4 verses)
Isaiah 5:11
NegativeWoe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
Isaiah 5:22
NegativeWoe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
Isaiah 28:1
NegativeWoe 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 28:7
NegativeBut 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.
Jeremiah (4 verses)
Jeremiah 13:12
NegativeTherefore thou shalt speak unto them this word; Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?
Jeremiah 23:9
NegativeMine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.
Jeremiah 25:15
NegativeFor 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 51:7
NegativeBabylon 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.
Joel (1 verses)
Joel 1:5
NegativeAwake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
Judges (3 verses)
Judges 13:4
NegativeNow therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:
Judges 13:7
NegativeBut he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death.
Judges 13:14
NegativeShe may not eat of any thing that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: all that I commanded her let her observe.
Leviticus (1 verses)
Leviticus 10:9
NegativeDo not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:
Luke (1 verses)
Luke 7:34
NegativeThe Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
Matthew (1 verses)
Matthew 11:19
NegativeThe Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.
Numbers (1 verses)
Numbers 6:3
NegativeHe shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.
Proverbs (7 verses)
Proverbs 4:17
NegativeFor they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
Proverbs 20:1
NegativeWine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Proverbs 21:17
NegativeHe that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.
Proverbs 23:20
NegativeBe not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
Proverbs 23:31
NegativeLook not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
Proverbs 31:4
NegativeIt is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:
Proverbs 31:6
NegativeGive strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.
Psalms (1 verses)
Psalms 75:8
NegativeFor in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
Revelation (5 verses)
Revelation 14:8
NegativeAnd there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
Revelation 14:10
NegativeThe same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
Revelation 16:19
NegativeAnd the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
Revelation 17:2
NegativeWith whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
Revelation 18:3
NegativeFor all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
Titus (2 verses)
Titus 1:7
NegativeFor a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
Titus 2:3
NegativeThe aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
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