ABSTINENCE, TOTAL

Passages on this topic · 31

• Leviticus 10:8

  Then Yahweh said to Aaron,

• Leviticus 10:9

  “You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or you will die. This shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.

• Leviticus 10:10

  You are to make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean.

• Numbers 6:3

  he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of fermented drink, neither shall he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried.

• Numbers 6:4

  All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is made of the grapevine, from the seeds even to the skins.

• Deuteronomy 29:6

  You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink; that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.

• Judges 13:3

  Yahweh’s angel appeared to the woman, and said to her, “See now, you are barren and childless; but you shall conceive, and bear a son.

• Judges 13:4

  Now therefore please beware and drink no wine nor strong drink, and don’t eat any unclean thing:

• Judges 13:5

  for, behold, you shall conceive, and give birth to a son. No razor shall come on his head; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb. He shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.”

• Judges 13:13

  Yahweh’s angel said to Manoah, “Of all that I said to the woman let her beware.

• Judges 13:14

  She may not eat of anything that comes of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing. Let her observe all that I commanded her.”

• Judges 16:17

  He told her all his heart, and said to her, “No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me, and I will become weak, and be like any other man.”

• Esther 1:8

  In accordance with the law, the drinking was not compulsory; for so the king had instructed all the officials of his house, that they should do according to every man’s pleasure.

• Proverbs 23:20

  Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:

• Proverbs 23:31

  Don’t look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.

• Proverbs 23:32

  In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.

• Proverbs 31:4

  It is not for kings, Lemuel; it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes to say, ‘Where is strong drink?’

• Jeremiah 35:6

  But they said, “We will drink no wine; for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying, ‘You shall drink no wine, neither you, nor your sons, forever.

• Jeremiah 35:7

  You shall not build a house, sow seed, plant a vineyard, or have any; but all your days you shall dwell in tents; that you may live many days in the land in which you live.’

• Jeremiah 35:8

  We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, or our daughters;

• Jeremiah 35:9

  and not to build houses for ourselves to dwell in. We have no vineyard, field, or seed;

• Jeremiah 35:10

  but we have lived in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.

• Jeremiah 35:11

  But when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, we said, ‘Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians; so we will dwell at Jerusalem.’”

• Jeremiah 35:12

  Then Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah, saying,

• Jeremiah 35:13

  “Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Go, and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, “Will you not receive instruction to listen to my words?” says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 35:14

  “The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons, not to drink wine, are performed; and to this day they drink none, for they obey their father’s commandment: but I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking; and you have not listened to me.

• Daniel 1:8

  But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king’s dainties, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

• Daniel 1:12

  Test your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink.

• Matthew 11:18

  For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’

• Luke 1:15

  For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

• Luke 7:33

  For John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’