TOPICAL BIBLE
Abstinence, Total
29 references in this topic.
Leviticus 10:8Then the LORD said to Aaron,Leviticus 10:9“You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink when you enter the Tent of Meeting, or else you will die; this is a permanent statute for the generations to come.Leviticus 10:10You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean,Numbers 6:3he is to abstain from wine and strong drink. He must not drink vinegar made from wine or strong drink, and he must not drink any grape juice or eat fresh grapes or raisins.Numbers 6:4All the days of his separation, he is not to eat anything that comes from the grapevine, not even the seeds or skins.Deuteronomy 29:6You ate no bread and drank no wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.Judges 13:4Now please be careful not to drink wine or strong drink, and not to eat anything unclean.Judges 13:13So the angel of the LORD answered Manoah, “Your wife is to do everything I told her.Judges 13:14She must not eat anything that comes from the vine, nor drink any wine or strong drink, nor eat anything unclean. She must do everything I have commanded her.”Judges 16:17Samson told her all that was in his heart: “My hair has never been cut, because I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, my strength will leave me, and I will become as weak as any other man.”Esther 1:8By order of the king, no limit was placed on the drinking, and every official of his household was to serve each man whatever he desired.Proverbs 23:20Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat.Proverbs 23:31Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.Proverbs 23:32In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.Proverbs 31:4It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to crave strong drink,Jeremiah 35:6“We do not drink wine,” they replied, “for our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab commanded us, ‘Neither you nor your descendants are ever to drink wine.Jeremiah 35:7Nor are you ever to build a house or sow seed or plant a vineyard. Those things are not for you. Instead, you must live in tents all your lives, so that you may live a long time in the land where you wander.’Jeremiah 35:8And we have obeyed the voice of our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab in all he commanded us. So we have not drunk wine all our lives—neither we nor our wives nor our sons and daughters.Jeremiah 35:9Nor have we built houses in which to live, and we have not owned any vineyards or fields or crops.Jeremiah 35:10But we have lived in tents and have obeyed and done exactly as our forefather Jonadab commanded us.Jeremiah 35:11So when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched into the land, we said: ‘Come, let us go into Jerusalem to escape the armies of the Chaldeans and the Arameans.’ So we have remained in Jerusalem.”Jeremiah 35:12Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:Jeremiah 35:13“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Go and tell the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem: ‘Will you not accept discipline and obey My words?’ declares the LORD.Jeremiah 35:14The words of Jonadab son of Rechab have been carried out. He commanded his sons not to drink wine, and they have not drunk it to this very day because they have obeyed the command of their forefather. But I have spoken to you again and again, and you have not obeyed Me!Daniel 1:8But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king’s food or wine. So he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself.Daniel 1:12“Please test your servants for ten days. Let us be given only vegetables to eat and water to drink.Matthew 11:18For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon!’Luke 1:15for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He shall never take wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother’s womb.Luke 7:33For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon!’
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