DRUNKENNESS

- Forbidden Eph 5:18 - Caution against Lu 21:34 - Is a work of the flesh Ga 5:21 - Is debasing Isa 28:8 - Is inflaming Isa 5:11 - Overcharges the heart Lu 21:34 - Takes away the heart Ho 4:11 - LEADS TO . Poverty Pr 21:17; 23:21 . Strife Pr 23:29,30 . Woe and sorrow Pr 23:29,30 . Error Isa 28:7 . Contempt of God's works Isa 5:12 . Scorning Ho 7:5 . Rioting and wantonness Ro 13:13 - The wicked addicted to Da 5:1-4 - False teachers often addicted to Isa 56:12 - Folly of yielding to Pr 20:1 - Avoid those given to Pr 23:20; 1Co 5:11 - DENUNCIATIONS AGAINST . Those given to Isa 5:11,12; 28:1-3 . Those who encourage Hab 2:15 - Excludes from heaven 1Co 6:10; Ga 5:21 - Punishment of De 21:20; Joe 1:5,6; Am 6:6,7; Mt 24:49-51 - Exemplified . Noah Ge 9:21 . Nabal 1Sa 25:36 . Uriah 2Sa 11:13 . Elah 1Ki 16:9,10 . Benhadad 1Ki 20:16 . Belshazzar Da 5:4 . Corinthians 1Co 11:21

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Is referred to in the Bible both in single instances and as a habit. Its folly is often illustrated, Ps 107:27 Isa 19:14 24:20 28:7,8, its guilt denounced, Isa 5:22, its ill results traced, 1Sa 25:36 1Ki 16:9 20:16, and its doom shown, 1Co 6:9,10. It is produced by wine, Ge 9:21 21:33 Jer 23:9 Eph 5:18, as well as by "strong drink," 1Sa 1:13-15 Isa 5:11. Hence the use of these was forbidden to the priests at the altar, Le 10:9; and all are cautioned to avoid them, Pr 20:1 23:20. To tempt others to drunkenness is a sin accursed of God, 2Sa 11:13 Hab 2:15,16. Its prevalence in a community is inseparable from the habitual use of any inebriating liquor. Hence the efforts made by the wise and good to secure abstinence from all intoxicating drinks, 1Co 8:13. See WINE.

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DRUNKENNESS. → General scriptures concerning De 21:20,21; 29:19-21; 1Sa 1:14; Ps 69:12; Pr 20:1; 21:17; 23:20,21,29-35; 31:4-7; Isa 5:11,12,22; 19:14; 24:9,11; 28:1,3,7,8; 56:12; Jer 25:27; Ho 4:11; 7:5,14; Joe 1:5; 3:3; Am 2:8,12; 6:1,6; Mic 2:11; Na 1:10; Hab 2:15-17; Mt 24:49; Lu 12:45; 21:34; Ro 13:13; Ga 5:19-21; Eph 5:18; 1Th 5:7,8 → FIGURATIVE Ps 73:10; 75:8; Isa 28:8; 51:17,21-23; 63:6; Jer 25:15,16,27,28; 51:7-9; La 3:15; Eze 23:31-34; Hab 2:15,16
* See ABSTINENCE
* See DRUNKARD
* See SOBRIETY
* See WINE

→ INSTANCES OF
* Noah Ge 9:21
* Lot Ge 19:33
* Nabal 1Sa 25:36
* Uriah 2Sa 11:13
* Elah 1Ki 16:9
* Ben-hadad and his thirty-two confederate kings 1Ki 20:16
* Ahasuerus Es 1:10,11
* Belshazzar Da 5:1-6

→ FALSELY ACCUSED OF
* Hannah 1Sa 1:12-16
* Jesus Mt 11:19
* The Apostles Ac 2:13-15

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drunkenness. Drunkenness, n. a drunken state or habit

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Drunk″en‐ness, n. 1. 1. The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; — used of the casual state or the habit.
The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their company. I. Watts. 2. 2. Disorder of the faculties, resembling intoxication by liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage.
Passion is the drunkenness of the mind. South. Syn. — Intoxication; inebriation; inebriety. — Drunkenness, Intoxication, Inebriation. Drunkenness refers more to the habit; intoxication and inebriation, to specific acts. The first two words are extensively used in a figurative sense; a person is intoxicated with success, and is drunk with joy. “This plan of empire was not taken up in the first intoxication of unexpected success.” Burke.