Topic
Abstinence, Total
21 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1896 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Leviticus 10:8–10Nave FROM INTOXICATING BEVERAGES
¶ And the LORD spake unto Aaron, saying, Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations: And that ye may put…
- Numbers 6:3Nave FROM INTOXICATING BEVERAGES
He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.
- Numbers 6:4Nave FROM INTOXICATING BEVERAGES
All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk.
- Deuteronomy 29:6Nave INSTANCES OF — Israelites in the wilderness
Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.
- Judges 13:4Nave FROM INTOXICATING BEVERAGES
Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:
- Judges 13:13Nave FROM INTOXICATING BEVERAGES
And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Of all that I said unto the woman let her beware.
- Judges 13:14Nave FROM INTOXICATING BEVERAGES
She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: all that I commanded her let her observe.
- Judges 16:17Nave INSTANCES OF — Samson
That he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother’s womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.
- Esther 1:8Nave FROM INTOXICATING BEVERAGES
And the drinking was according to the law; none did compel: for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house, that they should do according to every man’s pleasure.
- Proverbs 23:20Nave FROM INTOXICATING BEVERAGES
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
- Proverbs 23:31Nave FROM INTOXICATING BEVERAGES
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
- Proverbs 23:32Nave FROM INTOXICATING BEVERAGES
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
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- Proverbs 31:4 Nave FROM INTOXICATING BEVERAGES
- Jeremiah 35:6–8 Nave FROM INTOXICATING BEVERAGES
- Jeremiah 35:6–14 Nave INSTANCES OF — Rechabites
- Jeremiah 35:14 Nave FROM INTOXICATING BEVERAGES
- Daniel 1:8 Nave INSTANCES OF — Daniel
- Daniel 1:12 Nave INSTANCES OF — Daniel
- Matthew 11:18 Nave INSTANCES OF — John the Baptist
- Luke 1:15 Nave FROM INTOXICATING BEVERAGES
- Luke 7:33 Nave INSTANCES OF — John the Baptist
In the topical indexes
Texts: Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.