Proverbs 20:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Wine makes men foolish, and strong drink makes men come to blows; and whoever comes into error through these is not wise.

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  • Hos 4:11 : 11 Loose ways and new wine take away wisdom.
  • Prov 31:4 : 4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to take wine, or for rulers to say, Where is strong drink?
  • Isa 28:7 : 7 And further, these are uncertain through wine, and have gone out of the right way through strong drink: the priest and the prophet are uncertain through strong drink, they are overcome by wine, they have gone out of the way through strong drink; their vision is false, they go wrong in their decisions.
  • Eph 5:18 : 18 And do not take overmuch wine by which one may be overcome, but be full of the Spirit;
  • 1 Cor 6:10 : 10 Or is a thief, or the worse for drink, or makes use of strong language, or takes by force what is not his, will have any part in the kingdom of God.
  • Gal 5:21 : 21 Envy, uncontrolled drinking and feasting, and such things: of which I give you word clearly, even as I did in the past, that they who do such things will have no part in the kingdom of God.
  • 2 Sam 11:13 : 13 And when David sent for him, he took meat and drink with him, and David made him the worse for drink: and when evening came, he went to rest on his bed with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.
  • Isa 5:22 : 22 Cursed are those who are strong to take wine, and great in making mixed drinks!
  • Gen 9:21-23 : 21 And he took of the wine of it and was overcome by drink; and he was uncovered in his tent. 22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father unclothed, and gave news of it to his two brothers outside. 23 And Shem and Japheth took a robe, and putting it on their backs went in with their faces turned away, and put it over their father so that they might not see him unclothed.
  • Gen 19:31-36 : 31 And the older daughter said to her sister, Our father is old, and there is no man to be a husband to us in the natural way: 32 Come, let us give our father much wine, and we will go into his bed, so that we may have offspring by our father, 33 And that night they made their father take much wine; and the older daughter went into his bed; and he had no knowledge of when she went in or when she went away. 34 And on the day after, the older daughter said to the younger, Last night I was with my father; let us make him take much wine this night again, and do you go to him, so that we may have offspring by our father. 35 And that night again they made their father take much wine; and the younger daughter went into his bed; and he had no knowledge of when she went in or when she went away. 36 And so the two daughters of Lot were with child by their father.
  • 1 Sam 25:36-38 : 36 And Abigail went back to Nabal; and he was feasting in his house like a king; and Nabal's heart was full of joy, for he had taken much wine; so she said nothing to him till dawn came. 37 And in the morning, when the effect of the wine was gone, Nabal's wife gave him an account of all these things, and all the heart went out of him, and he became like stone. 38 And about ten days after, the Lord sent disease on Nabal and death came to him.
  • Isa 56:12 : 12 Come, they say, I will get wine, and we will take strong drink in full measure; and tomorrow will be like today, full of pleasure.
  • Hos 7:5 : 5 On the day of our king, the rulers made him ill with the heat of wine; his hand was stretched out with the men of pride.
  • Hab 2:15-16 : 15 A curse on him who gives his neighbour the wine of his wrath, making him overcome with strong drink from the cup of his passion, so that you may be a witness of their shame! 16 You are full of shame in place of glory: take your part in the drinking, and let your shame be uncovered: the cup of the Lord's right hand will come round to you and your glory will be covered with shame.
  • 2 Sam 13:28 : 28 Now Absalom had given orders to his servants, saying, Now take note when Amnon's heart is glad with wine; and when I say to you, Make an attack on Amnon, then put him to death without fear: have I not given you orders? be strong and without fear.
  • 1 Kgs 20:16-21 : 16 And in the middle of the day they went out. But Ben-hadad was drinking in the tents with the thirty-two kings who were helping him. 17 And the servants of the chiefs who were over the divisions of the land went forward first; and when Ben-hadad sent out, they gave him the news, saying, Men have come out from Samaria. 18 And he said, If they have come out for peace, take them living, and if they have come out for war, take them living. 19 So the servants of the chiefs of the divisions of the land went out of the town, with the army coming after them. 20 And every one of them put his man to death, and the Aramaeans went in flight with Israel after them; and Ben-hadad, king of Aram, got away safely on a horse with his horsemen. 21 And the king of Israel went out and took the horses and the war-carriages, and made great destruction among the Aramaeans.
  • Prov 23:29-35 : 29 Who says, Oh! who says, Ah! who has violent arguments, who has grief, who has wounds without cause, whose eyes are dark? 30 Those who are seated late over the wine: those who go looking for mixed wine. 31 Keep your eyes from looking on the wine when it is red, when its colour is bright in the cup, when it goes smoothly down: 32 In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake. 33 Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things. 34 Yes, you will be like him who takes his rest on the sea, or on the top of a sail-support. 35 They have overcome me, you will say, and I have no pain; they gave me blows without my feeling them: when will I be awake from my wine? I will go after it again.

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    11 Loose ways and new wine take away wisdom.

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    9 Like a thorn which goes up into the hand of a man overcome by drink, so is a wise saying in the mouth of a foolish man.

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    17 The lover of pleasure will be a poor man: the lover of wine and oil will not get wealth.

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    17 The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.

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    5 Come, take of my bread, and of my wine which is mixed.

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    12 Come, they say, I will get wine, and we will take strong drink in full measure; and tomorrow will be like today, full of pleasure.

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    5 On the day of our king, the rulers made him ill with the heat of wine; his hand was stretched out with the men of pride.

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    20 There is a store of great value in the house of the wise, but it is wasted by the foolish man.

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    21 Foolish behaviour is joy to the unwise; but a man of good sense makes his way straight.

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    5 Give a foolish man a foolish answer, or he will seem wise to himself.

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    19 A feast is for laughing, and wine makes glad the heart; but by the one and the other money is wasted.

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    8 The wisdom of the man of good sense makes his way clear; but the unwise behaviour of the foolish is deceit.

  • 1 Thess 5:7
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    7 For those who are sleeping do so in the night; and those who are the worse for drink are so in the night;

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    3 By his foolish behaviour a man's ways are turned upside down, and his heart is bitter against the Lord.

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    27 They are turned here and there, rolling like a man who is full of wine; and all their wisdom comes to nothing.

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    20 Go with wise men and be wise: but he who keeps company with the foolish will be broken.