99 Bible Verses about Drugs and Alcohol

Here are 99 Bible verses about drugs and alcohol, curated from both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version, arranged from most to least relevant.

Ephesians 5:18 KJV

¹⁸ And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

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1 Corinthians 6:19-20 KJV

¹⁹ What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? ²⁰ For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

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Galatians 5:21 KJV

²¹ Envyings, 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.

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Proverbs 20:1 KJV

¹ Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

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1 Peter 5:8 KJV

⁸ Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

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Proverbs 23:29-35 KJV

²⁹ Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? ³⁰ They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. ³¹ Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. ³² At the last it biteth like a serpent, and …

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1 Corinthians 3:16-17 KJV

¹⁶ Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? ¹⁷ If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

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Isaiah 5:11 KJV

¹¹ Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!

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Isaiah 28:7 KJV

⁷ But 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.

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1 Corinthians 6:10 KJV

¹⁰ Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

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2 Timothy 4:5 KJV

⁵ But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

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1 Corinthians 3:17 KJV

¹⁷ If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

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1 Peter 4:7 KJV

⁷ But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.

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Proverbs 31:4 KJV

⁴ It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:

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Proverbs 21:17 KJV

¹⁷ He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

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Luke 21:34 KJV

³⁴ And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

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1 Timothy 5:23 KJV

²³ Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.

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1 Corinthians 6:19 KJV

¹⁹ What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

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Isaiah 5:22 KJV

²² Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:

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Galatians 5:1 KJV

¹ Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

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Proverbs 23:20-21 KJV

²⁰ Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: ²¹ For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

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Judges 13:4 KJV

⁴ Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:

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Galatians 5:19-21 KJV

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, ²⁰ Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, ²¹ Envyings, 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 …

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Romans 14:1-23 KJV

¹ Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations. ² For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs. ³ Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him. ⁴ Who art thou that judgest another man’s servant? to his own …

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1 Corinthians 10:13 KJV

¹³ There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

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John 8:44 KJV

⁴⁴ Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

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1 Timothy 3:8 KJV

⁸ Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

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Romans 13:13 KJV

¹³ Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

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1 Corinthians 5:11 KJV

¹¹ But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

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Leviticus 10:9 KJV

⁹ Do 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:

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Romans 14:21 KJV

²¹ It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.

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Romans 6:16 KJV

¹⁶ Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

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Habakkuk 2:15 KJV

¹⁵ Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!

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Numbers 6:3 KJV

³ He 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.

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Hosea 4:11 KJV

¹¹ Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

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Exodus 20:3 KJV

³ Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

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1 Corinthians 6:12 KJV

¹² All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

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Proverbs 31:6 KJV

⁶ Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.

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1 Peter 1:13 KJV

¹³ Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

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Isaiah 28:1 KJV

¹ Woe 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!

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Psalm 104:14-15 KJV

¹⁴ He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; ¹⁵ And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man’s heart.

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Revelation 21:8 KJV

⁸ But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

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Revelation 9:21 KJV

²¹ Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

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Philippians 4:13 KJV

¹³ I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

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1 Corinthians 10:31 KJV

³¹ Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

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Revelation 1:1 KJV

¹ The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

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Isaiah 56:12 KJV

¹² Come 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.

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1 Peter 4:3 KJV

³ For 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:

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Luke 7:34 KJV

³⁴ The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!

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2 Timothy 1:7 KJV

⁷ For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

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Ephesians 5:18-20 KJV

¹⁸ And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; ¹⁹ Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; ²⁰ Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;

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1 Peter 5:7 KJV

⁷ Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

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1 Thessalonians 5:6-8 KJV

⁶ Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. ⁷ For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. ⁸ But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.

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Proverbs 4:23 KJV

²³ Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

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1 Timothy 3:3 KJV

³ Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;

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1 Corinthians 15:33 KJV

³³ Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

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James 4:7 KJV

⁷ Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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Revelation 18:23 KJV

²³ And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.

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1 Corinthians 6:9-11 KJV

⁹ Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, ¹⁰ Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are …

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1 Corinthians 6:9-10 KJV

⁹ Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, ¹⁰ Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

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Romans 12:2 KJV

² And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

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Proverbs 20:1-30 KJV

¹ Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. ² The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul. ³ It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling. ⁴ The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in …

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John 10:10 KJV

¹⁰ The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

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Ecclesiastes 9:7 KJV

⁷ Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.

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Proverbs 19:3 KJV

³ The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the Lord.

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Psalm 23:1-6 KJV

¹ The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. ² He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. ³ He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. ⁴ Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. …

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Titus 3:1 KJV

¹ Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,

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Titus 2:3 KJV

³ The 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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1 Thessalonians 5:6 KJV

⁶ Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

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2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV

¹⁷ Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

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Proverbs 23:29-33 KJV

²⁹ Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? ³⁰ They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. ³¹ Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. ³² At the last it biteth like a serpent, and …

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Proverbs 23:21 KJV

²¹ For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

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3 John 1:2 KJV

² Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.

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Titus 2:12 KJV

¹² Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

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Matthew 6:13 KJV

¹³ And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

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Proverbs 11:17 KJV

¹⁷ The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh.

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Galatians 5:20 KJV

²⁰ Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

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John 3:16 KJV

¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

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Daniel 1:8 KJV

⁸ But 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.

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Ecclesiastes 10:17 KJV

¹⁷ Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

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Proverbs 31:4-5 KJV

⁴ It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink: ⁵ Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

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2 Peter 2:19 KJV

¹⁹ While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

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Proverbs 23:19-21 KJV

¹⁹ Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. ²⁰ Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: ²¹ For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

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Colossians 3:5 KJV

⁵ Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

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Ephesians 4:26-27 KJV

²⁶ Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: ²⁷ Neither give place to the devil.

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Galatians 5:16 KJV

¹⁶ This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

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John 3:16-17 KJV

¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. ¹⁷ For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

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Isaiah 48:1-22 KJV

¹ Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the Lord, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness. ² For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The Lord of hosts is his name. ³ I have declared the former things from …

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Proverbs 23:31 KJV

³¹ Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.

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Proverbs 21:1-31 KJV

¹ The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will. ² Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the Lord pondereth the hearts. ³ To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. ⁴ An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin. …

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Galatians 5:1-26 KJV

¹ Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. ² Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. ³ For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. ⁴ Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever …

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1 Corinthians 6:18 KJV

¹⁸ Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

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Romans 14:17 KJV

¹⁷ For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.

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Genesis 9:21 KJV

²¹ And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.

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Romans 13:14 KJV

¹⁴ But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

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Acts 5:29 KJV

²⁹ Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

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1 Peter 5:10 KJV

¹⁰ But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

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Isaiah 48:10 KJV

¹⁰ Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

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Romans 14:16 KJV

¹⁶ Let not then your good be evil spoken of:

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