So many of us read the bible and end up translating it to accommodate our unholy living. Below is some reason we should desist from drinking:

1) Genesis 9:20-26. The first drunkenness and the attendant immoral behavior.
2) Genesis 19:30-38. Drinking results in Lot’s debauchery of his own daughters.
3) Genesis 27:25. Isaac was drinking when he mistakenly blessed Jacob.
4) Leviticus 10:9. An express command not to drink.
5) Numbers 6:3. The vow of the Nazarite.
6) Deuteronomy 21:20. Drinking leads to stubbornness, rebellion, and gluttony and brings dishonor to parents.
7) Deuteronomy 29:2-6. Abstinence assures a closer walk with God.
Judges 13:4, 7and 14. Samson’s mother, an example of womanhood, was commanded not to drink. Was alcohol recognized even then as a protoplasmic poison, injuring posterity?
9) I Samuel 1 14-15. Hannah, an example of honored motherhood, was a total abstainer.
10) I Samuel 25:33, 36-38. Nabal, a rich but churlish man who opposed David, died after a drunken spree. He had already lost his wife’s respect.
11) II Samuel 11:13. Only by strong drink could David lead Uriah into a fatal trap.
12) II Samuel 13:28-29. Ammon, in a drunken brawl, was murdered by his brother, Absalom.
13) 1 Kings 16:8-10. While a king was “drinking himself drunk” in his own home, one of his captains conspired against him and slew him.
14) 1 Kings 20:13-21. Drink and war. While Ben Hadad and thirty-two other Kings were drinking in their pavilions, a small band of Israel’s men fell upon the Syrians and put them to flight.
15) Esther 1:5-22. Drink wrecks homes and separates man and wife. At a week’s feast of food and wine, King Ahasuerus drunkenly tried to subject his queen to the beastly gaze of inebriated nobles, causing separation of the royal husband and wife.
16) Job 1:18-19. The children of Job were feasting and drinking when blown away in a cyclone.
17) Proverbs 4:17. Violence results from drinking.
18) Proverbs 20:1. No wise man will indulge.
19) Proverbs 21:17; 23:21. Drink leads to poverty.
20) Proverbs 23:7-8. The body rebels after drinking.
21) Proverbs 23:29-30. Strong drink produces sorrow, contentions, wounds without cause, babblings, redness of eyes.
22) Proverbs 23:31. Do not be tempted by intoxicants.
23) Proverbs 23:32. God’s Word warns that liquor eventually harms all who drink.
24) Proverbs 23:33. It fills men’s minds with adulterous and impure thoughts.
25) Proverbs 22:33. It produces wilfullness and prevents reformation.
26) Proverbs 23:34. It brings on insecurity.
27) Pr. 23:35. Insensibility follows drinking, rendering a man into a clod.
28) Proverbs 23:35. Habit forming. One drink calls for another.
29) Proverbs 31:4-5. Kings and all other rulers or officials with the weight of human lives in their control should not imbibe.
30) Proverbs 31:6-7. The only sanction for the use of strong drink was a medicine or anesthetic for those about to die. We now know better medicines and anesthetics than whiskey, wine, or beer.
31) Ecclesiastes 2:3. The writer of Ecclesiastes tried strong drink, but in the end was forced to admit that it too is vanity (EccIesiastes 12:.
32) Ecclesiastes 10:17. Blessings are promised to the temperate and abstaining nation.
33) Isaiah 5:11-12. Woe to the drunkards.
34) Isaiah 5:22. More woes to them who drink.
35) Isaiah 22:13. Drinking and carnality go together. Leaves men hopeless.
36) Isaiah 24:9. Drink is bitter to them that drink it.
37) Isaiah 28:1. Woe to the drunkards of Ephraim.
38) Isaiah 28:3. The pride of drunkards will be trodden down.
39) Isaiah 28:7. Prophets and priests erred through drink.
40) Isaiah 28:7. Those who drink are set aside as useless.
41) Isaiah 28:7. Prophets and priests finally swallowed up by drink.
42) Isaiah 28:7. Drinking brings on spiritual blindness.
43) Isaiah 56:9-12. Rebuke to drinking church members, His watchmen.
44) Jeremiah 35:5, 6, 8 and 14. Total abstinence of the Rechabites cited as example of obedience on the part of God’s people.
45) Ezekiel 44:21. Priests are not to drink wine.
46) Daniel 1:5, 8, 16 and 10:3. God honored Daniel because he abstained from the kings wine. Daniel the man was true to the home training he had received as a boy.
47) Daniel 5:1. Belshazzar exhibited as an example of a leader who drank and taught his people to drink.
48) Daniel 5:2, 23. A nation whose women drink.
49) Daniel 5:5-9, 25-28. Ruin and downfall for nations whose rulers and leaders cause them to drink.
50) Daniel 5:3. Belshazzar’s sacrilege in using sacred temple vessels for liquor.
51) Hosea 3:1. Part of the degradation of Hosea’s wife induced by drink.
52) Hosea. 4:11. Strong drink and immorality go hand in hand.
53) Hosea 7:5. King and people reproved because of drinking.
54) Joel 1:5. Drunkards to awake from their drinking.
55) Joel 3:3. Young virtue sold for the price of drink.
56) Amos 2:8. Wine of the condemned.
57) Amos 2:12. Pollution of the innocent.
58) Amos 4:1. Dissolute women, oppressors of the poor, call for their liquor.
59) Amos 6:6. Drinkers not concerned about God nor the welfare of others.
60) Nahum 1:10. Drunkards to be destroyed.
61) Habakkuk. 2:5. Arrogance inflamed by drink.
62) Habakkuk 2:15. Wrong to give one’s neighbor drink. Social drinking.
63) Habakkuk 2:16. Drink leads to shame and humiliation.
64) Matthew 24:48-51. Drunkards warned about the return of Christ and His judgment.
65) Luke 1:15. Greatness of John the Baptist linked with his total abstinence.
66) Luke 12:45. Christ warns against being enmeshed in drink evils.
67) Luke 21:34. Warning against drunkenness and the cares of this life which follow, keeping one occupied to the exclusion of the Spirit.
68) Romans 13:13. All are admonished to walk honestly, not in rioting and drunkenness. It is not honest to be less than men, created in the image of God.
69) Romans 14:21. Drink causes a brother to stumble. Importance of example.
70) I Corinthians 6:10. No drunkard shall inherit the kingdom of God. (Therefore the preaching of the Gospel must include alcohol education.)
71) I Corinthians 11:25. The Lord’s Supper is no place for wine. Word “wine” not even used. Instead all accounts say “the cup” or “fruit of the vine.”
72) Galatians 5:21. Revelers in drunkenness shall not inherit the Kingdom of God.
73) Ephesians 5:18. Direct command that exhilaration shall be of the Spirit and not by wine.
74) I Thessalonians 5:7. Sobriety enjoined upon the Thessalonians. Children of light must not be overcome by darkness.
75) I Timothy 3:3, 8, 11 and 12. Church officers must not drink; neither should their families.