Deuteronomy 21:20
and they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
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- Prov 20:1 : 1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; And whosoever erreth thereby is not wise.
- Prov 23:19-21 : 19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And guide thy heart in the way. 20 Be not among winebibbers, Among gluttonous eaters of flesh: 21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; And drowsiness will clothe [a man] with rags.
- Prov 23:29-35 : 29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? Who hath complaining? who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes? 30 They that tarry long at the wine; They that go to seek out mixed wine. 31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, When it sparkleth in the cup, When it goeth down smoothly: 32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, And stingeth like an adder. 33 Thine eyes shall behold strange things, And thy heart shall utter perverse things. 34 Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, Or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. 35 They have stricken me, [shalt thou say], and I was not hurt; They have beaten me, and I felt it not: When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
- Prov 29:17 : 17 Correct thy son, and he will give thee rest; Yea, he will give delight unto thy soul.
- Prov 19:26 : 26 He that doeth violence to his father, and chaseth away his mother, Is a son that causeth shame and bringeth reproach.
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- Deut 21:18-192 verses85%
18If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, that will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not hearken unto them;
19then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
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21And all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
- Prov 23:19-224 verses77%
19Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And guide thy heart in the way.
20Be not among winebibbers, Among gluttonous eaters of flesh:
21For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; And drowsiness will clothe [a man] with rags.
22Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old.
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1Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; And whosoever erreth thereby is not wise.
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5Yea, moreover, wine is treacherous, a haughty man, that keepeth not at home; who enlargeth his desire as Sheol, and he is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all peoples.
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25A foolish son is a grief to his father, And bitterness to her that bare him.
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20A wise son maketh a glad father; But a foolish man despiseth his mother.
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26He that doeth violence to his father, and chaseth away his mother, Is a son that causeth shame and bringeth reproach.
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13And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together and took his journey into a far country; and there he wasted his substance with riotous living.
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15And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
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30but when this thy son came, who hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou killedst for him the fatted calf.
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21He that begetteth a fool [doeth it] to his sorrow; And the father of a fool hath no joy.
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7And even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
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14Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins, which he hath done, and feareth, and doeth not such like;
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17And he that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
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31Whether it have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.
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20Whoso curseth his father or his mother, His lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
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15Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, [to thee] that addest thy venom, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
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10If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that doeth any one of these things,
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17For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.
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19The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold, a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners! And wisdom is justified by her [ works.
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11Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that tarry late into the night, till wine inflame them!
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5Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and wail, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
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22Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink;
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21Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but now with wine:
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6Train up a child in the way he should go, And even when he is old he will not depart from it.
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21And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight: I am no more worthy to be called thy son .
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1A wise son [heareth] his father's instruction; But a scoffer heareth not rebuke.
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11And he said, A certain man had two sons:
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7Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son; But he that is a companion of gluttons shameth his father.
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21then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the harlot in her father's house: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.
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18Chasten thy son, seeing there is hope; And set not thy heart on his destruction.
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15My son, walk not thou in the way with them; Refrain thy foot from their path:
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18And the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him;
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11And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do not more any such wickedness as this is in the midst of thee.
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5Lest they drink, and forget the law, And pervert the justice [due] to any that is afflicted.
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24Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression, The same is the companion of a destroyer.
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11There is a generation that curse their father, And bless not their mother.
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24He that spareth his rod hateth his son; But he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
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16Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
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30They that tarry long at the wine; They that go to seek out mixed wine.