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Neutral wine verses in the Bible
1 Chronicles (2 verses)
1 Chronicles 12:40
Neutral/UnknownMoreover they that were nigh them, even unto Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, and meat, meal, cakes of figs, and bunches of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep abundantly: for there was joy in Israel.
1 Chronicles 27:27
Neutral/UnknownAnd over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite: over the increase of the vineyards for the wine cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite:
1 Samuel (3 verses)
1 Samuel 10:3
Neutral/UnknownThen shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:
1 Samuel 16:20
Neutral/UnknownAnd Jesse took an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son unto Saul.
1 Samuel 25:18
Neutral/UnknownThen Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.
2 Chronicles (2 verses)
2 Chronicles 2:15
Neutral/UnknownNow therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants:
2 Chronicles 11:11
Neutral/UnknownAnd he fortified the strong holds, and put captains in them, and store of victual, and of oil and wine.
2 Kings (1 verses)
2 Kings 18:32
Neutral/UnknownUntil I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us.
2 Samuel (3 verses)
2 Samuel 13:28
Neutral/UnknownNow Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon; then kill him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.
2 Samuel 16:1
Neutral/UnknownAnd when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, and an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.
2 Samuel 16:2
Neutral/UnknownAnd the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said, The asses be for the king's household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink.
Acts (1 verses)
Acts 2:13
Neutral/UnknownOthers mocking said, These men are full of new wine.
Amos (4 verses)
Amos 2:12
Neutral/UnknownBut ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
Amos 5:11
Neutral/UnknownForasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
Amos 6:6
Neutral/UnknownThat drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
Amos 9:13
Neutral/UnknownBehold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
Daniel (5 verses)
Daniel 5:1
Neutral/UnknownBelshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
Daniel 5:2
Neutral/UnknownBelshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
Daniel 5:4
Neutral/UnknownThey drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
Daniel 5:23
Neutral/UnknownBut hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:
Daniel 10:3
Neutral/UnknownI ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.
Deuteronomy (4 verses)
Deuteronomy 28:39
Neutral/UnknownThou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.
Deuteronomy 28:51
Neutral/UnknownAnd he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.
Deuteronomy 29:6
Neutral/UnknownYe have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 32:38
Neutral/UnknownWhich did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.
Ecclesiastes (2 verses)
Ecclesiastes 2:3
Neutral/UnknownI sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.
Ecclesiastes 10:19
Neutral/UnknownA feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.
Esther (6 verses)
Esther 1:7
Neutral/UnknownAnd they gave them drink in vessels of gold, (the vessels being diverse one from another,) and royal wine in abundance, according to the state of the king.
Esther 1:10
Neutral/UnknownOn the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,
Esther 5:6
Neutral/UnknownAnd the king said unto Esther at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.
Esther 7:2
Neutral/UnknownAnd the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition, queen Esther? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? and it shall be performed, even to the half of the kingdom.
Esther 7:7
Neutral/UnknownAnd the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.
Esther 7:8
Neutral/UnknownThen the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the bed whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me in the house? As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.
Ezekiel (2 verses)
Ezekiel 27:18
Neutral/UnknownDamascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool.
Ezekiel 44:21
Neutral/UnknownNeither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
Ezra (1 verses)
Ezra 7:22
Neutral/UnknownUnto an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred measures of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, and to an hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.
Genesis (1 verses)
Genesis 27:25
Neutral/UnknownAnd he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine, and he drank.
Haggai (2 verses)
Haggai 1:11
Neutral/UnknownAnd I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.
Haggai 2:12
Neutral/UnknownIf one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No.
Hosea (4 verses)
Hosea 7:14
Neutral/UnknownAnd they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.
Hosea 9:2
Neutral/UnknownThe floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
Hosea 9:4
Neutral/UnknownThey shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.
Hosea 14:7
Neutral/UnknownThey that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
Isaiah (13 verses)
Isaiah 1:22
Neutral/UnknownThy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
Isaiah 5:12
Neutral/UnknownAnd the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
Isaiah 16:10
Neutral/UnknownAnd gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.
Isaiah 22:13
Neutral/UnknownAnd behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.
Isaiah 24:7
Neutral/UnknownThe new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
Isaiah 24:9
Neutral/UnknownThey shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
Isaiah 24:11
Neutral/UnknownThere is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
Isaiah 27:2
Neutral/UnknownIn that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.
Isaiah 29:9
Neutral/UnknownStay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
Isaiah 36:17
Neutral/UnknownUntil I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
Isaiah 49:26
Neutral/UnknownAnd I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
Isaiah 51:21
Neutral/UnknownTherefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:
Isaiah 56:12
Neutral/UnknownCome ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.
Jeremiah (8 verses)
Jeremiah 35:2
Neutral/UnknownGo unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.
Jeremiah 35:5
Neutral/UnknownAnd I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups, and I said unto them, Drink ye wine.
Jeremiah 35:6
Neutral/UnknownBut they said, We will drink no wine: for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no wine, neither ye, nor your sons for ever:
Jeremiah 35:8
Neutral/UnknownThus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he hath charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters;
Jeremiah 35:14
Neutral/UnknownThe words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons not to drink wine, are performed; for unto this day they drink none, but obey their father's commandment: notwithstanding I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye hearkened not unto me.
Jeremiah 40:10
Neutral/UnknownAs for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah to serve the Chaldeans, which will come unto us: but ye, gather ye wine, and summer fruits, and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that ye have taken.
Jeremiah 40:12
Neutral/UnknownEven all the Jews returned out of all places whither they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, unto Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very much.
Jeremiah 48:33
Neutral/UnknownAnd joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting.
Job (3 verses)
Job 1:13
Neutral/UnknownAnd there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:
Job 1:18
Neutral/UnknownWhile he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:
Job 32:19
Neutral/UnknownBehold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.
Joel (2 verses)
Joel 1:10
Neutral/UnknownThe field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
Joel 3:3
Neutral/UnknownAnd they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
John (1 verses)
John 2:3
Neutral/UnknownAnd when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine.
Joshua (2 verses)
Joshua 9:4
Neutral/UnknownThey did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;
Joshua 9:13
Neutral/UnknownAnd these bottles of wine, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.
Lamentations (1 verses)
Lamentations 2:12
Neutral/UnknownThey say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.
Luke (6 verses)
Luke 1:15
Neutral/UnknownFor he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.
Luke 5:37
Neutral/UnknownAnd no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish.
Luke 5:38
Neutral/UnknownBut new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.
Luke 5:39
Neutral/UnknownNo man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better.
Luke 7:33
Neutral/UnknownFor John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.
Luke 10:34
Neutral/UnknownAnd went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
Mark (2 verses)
Mark 2:22
Neutral/UnknownAnd no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles.
Mark 15:23
Neutral/UnknownAnd they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but he received it not.
Matthew (1 verses)
Matthew 9:17
Neutral/UnknownNeither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
Micah (2 verses)
Micah 2:11
Neutral/UnknownIf a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.
Micah 6:15
Neutral/UnknownThou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine.
Nehemiah (5 verses)
Nehemiah 2:1
Neutral/UnknownAnd it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence.
Nehemiah 5:11
Neutral/UnknownRestore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.
Nehemiah 5:15
Neutral/UnknownBut the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.
Nehemiah 5:18
Neutral/UnknownNow that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.
Nehemiah 13:15
Neutral/UnknownIn those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals.
Numbers (1 verses)
Numbers 6:20
Neutral/UnknownAnd the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD: this is holy for the priest, with the wave breast and heave shoulder: and after that the Nazarite may drink wine.
Proverbs (1 verses)
Proverbs 23:30
Neutral/UnknownThey that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Psalms (3 verses)
Psalms 4:7
Neutral/UnknownThou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.
Psalms 60:3
Neutral/UnknownThou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
Psalms 78:65
Neutral/UnknownThen the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
Revelation (2 verses)
Revelation 6:6
Neutral/UnknownAnd I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
Revelation 18:13
Neutral/UnknownAnd cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.
Romans (1 verses)
Romans 14:21
Neutral/UnknownIt is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
Song of Solomon (6 verses)
Song of Solomon 1:2
Neutral/UnknownLet him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.
Song of Solomon 1:4
Neutral/UnknownDraw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.
Song of Solomon 4:10
Neutral/UnknownHow fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!
Song of Solomon 5:1
Neutral/UnknownI am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
Song of Solomon 7:9
Neutral/UnknownAnd the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.
Song of Solomon 8:2
Neutral/UnknownI would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.
Zechariah (3 verses)
Zechariah 9:15
Neutral/UnknownThe LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of the altar.
Zechariah 9:17
Neutral/UnknownFor how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.
Zechariah 10:7
Neutral/UnknownAnd they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as through wine: yea, their children shall see it, and be glad; their heart shall rejoice in the LORD.
Zephaniah (1 verses)
Zephaniah 1:13
Neutral/UnknownTherefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.
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