Abstinence, Total

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Leviticus 10:8-10 OT

  Then Yahweh said to Aaron, “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. You are to make a distinction…

• Numbers 6:3 OT

  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 OT

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

• Judges 13:4 OT

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

• Judges 13:13 OT

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

• Judges 13:14 OT

  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.”

• Esther 1:8 OT

  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 OT

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

• Proverbs 23:31 OT

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

• Proverbs 23:32 OT

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

• Proverbs 31:4 OT

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

• Jeremiah 35:6-8 OT

  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. You shall not build a house, sow seed, plant a vineyard, or have any;…

• Jeremiah 35:14 OT

  “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…

• Luke 1:15 NT

  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.

• Deuteronomy 29:6 OT

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

• Judges 16:17 OT

  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.”

• Daniel 1:8 OT

  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 OT

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

• Jeremiah 35:6-14 OT

  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. You shall not build a house, sow seed, plant a vineyard, or have any;…

• Matthew 11:18 NT

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

• Luke 7:33 NT

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