The bible says the average person can drink. He does seem to discourage really strong drinks. But his issue is, being a drunkard. Don't drink so much that you loose yourself completely. Don't live in the bottle.
The ones he really has issues with is people of Authority. People who are in charge of making decisions. Those are the ones he really has a problem with drinking. He wants them to have a sober and clear mind at all times.
Kings and Princes, Priests and Prophets were all Men of authority in the bible days, and they would be equivalent to all our Government leaders, and Church leaders.
Proverbs 31:4-7 (King James Version)
4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:
Ecclesiastes 10:17 (King James Version)
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!
Proverbs 31:5
5 Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
Hosea 4:11 (King James Version)
11 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
Isaiah 28:7 (King James Version)
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.
Proverbs 20:1 (King James Version)
1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Isaiah 56:10-12 (King James Version)
10 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
11 Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
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.
Proverbs 31:6
6 Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.
Psalm 104:15 (King James Version)
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.
Judges 9:13 (King James Version)
13 And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?
Proverbs 31:7
7 Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
1 Corinthians 5:11 (King James Version)
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.
Matthew 18:17 (King James Version)
17 And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
Romans 16:17 (King James Version)
17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
1 Corinthians 11:21 (King James Version)
21 For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
1 Thessalonians 5:6-7 (King James Version)
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.
Luke 21:34 (King James Version)
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.
Acts 2:15 (King James Version)
15 For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.
Romans 13:13 (King James Version)
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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