Ephesians 5:18

Instead of drunkenness, believers are to be filled with the Spirit. The Spirit's control, not intoxication, is to govern their lives.

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• Prov 20:1Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
• Luke 1:15For 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.
• Rom 13:13Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
• Gal 5:21–25Envyings, 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.
• Acts 11:24For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord.
• Isa 5:22Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
• 1 Cor 5:11But 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 idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
• Luke 11:13If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
• Prov 23:29–35Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
• Luke 12:45But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;
• Prov 23:20–21Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
• 1 Th 5:7For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
• Isa 5:11–13Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
• Acts 2:13–18Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine.
• 1 Pet 4:3–4For 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:
• Zech 9:15–17The 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.
• 1 Cor 6:10Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
• Luke 21:34And 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.
• Titus 1:6If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
• Isa 55:1Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
• 1 Cor 11:21For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
• Deut 21:20And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
• Ps 63:3–5Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.
• Song 1:4Draw 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.
• Gen 9:21And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
• Gen 19:32–35Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
• Isa 25:6And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
• Ps 69:12They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
• Matt 23:25Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
• Song 7:9And 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.
• Matt 24:49And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;

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