Note 4 at 1Co 11:21: The first instance of drunkenness recorded in the scriptures was Noah (Ge 9:21). According to Smith's Bible Dictionary, the Hebrews had various intoxicating beverages, including (1) beer; (2) cider, or apple wine; (3) honey wine; (4) date wine; and (5) various homemade wines made from figs, millet, fruits, etc.

Drunkenness and its effects are condemned in the Scripture (Ro 13:13-14, Eph 5:18, and 1Th 5:7-8). Some of the traits associated with drunkenness are stubbornness and rebellion (De 21:20); unrighteousness of every kind (1Co 6:9-10); woe, sorrow, contentions, babblings, wounds, redness of eyes (Pr 23:29); fornication (Pr 23:33 and Hab 2:15); cursing (Pr 23:33); addiction (Pr 23:35); forgetting God's law and perverting judgment (Pr 31:5); pride (Isa 28:1); sickness (Ho 7:5); numbness and loss of awareness (Lu 21:34); and poverty (Pr 21:17 and 23:21).

All of these manifestations of the flesh are closely related to and spring forth from the sin of drunkenness.