What Does the Bible Say About Jesus Drinking Wine?

Ephesians 5:18 ESV / 10 helpful votes

And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,

Proverbs 31:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink,

1 Timothy 5:23 ESV / 6 helpful votes

(No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.)

John 2:1-25 ESV / 6 helpful votes

On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples. When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” ...

Matthew 11:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds.”

Proverbs 20:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.

Leviticus 10:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“Drink no wine or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the tent of meeting, lest you die. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.

Genesis 14:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (He was priest of God Most High.)

1 Timothy 4:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,

Matthew 26:29 ESV / 5 helpful votes

I tell you I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.”

1 Timothy 3:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Deacons likewise must be dignified, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for dishonest gain.

1 Corinthians 6:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,

Romans 14:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.

Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand. One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. ...

John 2:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now.”

John 2:1-11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples. When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” ...

1 Thessalonians 5:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Abstain from every form of evil.

Luke 7:34 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

Luke 5:39 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And no one after drinking old wine desires new, for he says, ‘The old is good.’”

Matthew 11:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

Zechariah 10:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Then Ephraim shall become like a mighty warrior, and their hearts shall be glad as with wine. Their children shall see it and be glad; their hearts shall rejoice in the Lord.

Habakkuk 2:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“Woe to him who makes his neighbors drink— you pour out your wrath and make them drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!

Hosea 4:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Whoredom, wine, and new wine, which take away the understanding.

Proverbs 23:1-35 ESV / 3 helpful votes

When you sit down to eat with a ruler, observe carefully what is before you, and put a knife to your throat if you are given to appetite. Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food. Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist. When your eyes light on it, it is gone, for suddenly it sprouts wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven. ...

Hebrews 5:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For every high priest chosen from among men is appointed to act on behalf of men in relation to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.

1 Timothy 4:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

Romans 14:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, but it is unclean for anyone who thinks it unclean.

John 19:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth.

Matthew 11:18-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’ The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds.”

Matthew 11:1-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

When Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, he went on from there to teach and preach in their cities. Now when John heard in prison about the deeds of the Christ, he sent word by his disciples and said to him, “Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?” And Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John what you hear and see: the blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them. ...

Amos 6:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Who drink wine in bowls and anoint themselves with the finest oils, but are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph!

Jeremiah 35:1-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: “Go to the house of the Rechabites and speak with them and bring them to the house of the Lord, into one of the chambers; then offer them wine to drink.” So I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, son of Habazziniah and his brothers and all his sons and the whole house of the Rechabites. I brought them to the house of the Lord into the chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was near the chamber of the officials, above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, keeper of the threshold. Then I set before the Rechabites pitchers full of wine, and cups, and I said to them, “Drink wine.” ...

Isaiah 5:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Woe to those who rise early in the morning, that they may run after strong drink, who tarry late into the evening as wine inflames them!

Proverbs 31:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress;

Proverbs 23:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder.

Proverbs 23:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.

Proverbs 23:29-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? Those who tarry long over wine; those who go to try mixed wine. Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly. In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder. Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart utter perverse things. ...

Psalm 104:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And wine to gladden the heart of man, oil to make his face shine and bread to strengthen man's heart.

Psalm 104:14-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You cause the grass to grow for the livestock and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food from the earth and wine to gladden the heart of man, oil to make his face shine and bread to strengthen man's heart.

Deuteronomy 21:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And they shall say to 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.’

Leviticus 10:1-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it and laid incense on it and offered unauthorized fire before the Lord, which he had not commanded them. And fire came out from before the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord. Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord has said: ‘Among those who are near me I will be sanctified, and before all the people I will be glorified.’” And Aaron held his peace. And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said to them, “Come near; carry your brothers away from the front of the sanctuary and out of the camp.” So they came near and carried them in their coats out of the camp, as Moses had said. ...

Exodus 29:40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And with the first lamb a tenth measure of fine flour mingled with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and a fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering.

Genesis 9:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent.

43 Bible Verses about Jesus Drinking Wine

Ephesians 5:18 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 31:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 5:23 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 2:1-25 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 11:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 20:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leviticus 10:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 14:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 4:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 26:29 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 3:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 6:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 14:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 2:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 2:1-11 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Thessalonians 5:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 7:34 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 5:39 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 11:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Zechariah 10:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Habakkuk 2:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hosea 4:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 23:1-35 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 5:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Romans 14:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 19:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 11:18-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 11:1-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Amos 6:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 35:1-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 5:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 31:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 23:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Psalm 104:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Deuteronomy 21:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Exodus 29:40 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 9:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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