Proverbs 23:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Do not be among those who give themselves to wine-drinking, or among those who make themselves full with meat:

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  • Isa 5:22 : 22 Cursed are those who are strong to take wine, and great in making mixed drinks!
  • Rom 13:13 : 13 With right behaviour as in the day; not in pleasure-making and drinking, not in bad company and unclean behaviour, not in fighting and envy.
  • Eph 5:18 : 18 And do not take overmuch wine by which one may be overcome, but be full of the Spirit;
  • Isa 5:11 : 11 Cursed are those who get up early in the morning to give themselves up to strong drink; who keep on drinking far into the night till they are heated with wine!
  • Luke 21:34 : 34 But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net:
  • Prov 28:7 : 7 He who keeps the law is a wise son, but he who keeps company with feasters puts shame on his father.
  • Prov 20:1 : 1 Wine makes men foolish, and strong drink makes men come to blows; and whoever comes into error through these is not wise.
  • Matt 24:49 : 49 And is cruel to the other servants, taking his pleasure with those who are overcome with wine;
  • Luke 15:13 : 13 And not long after, the younger son got together everything which was his and took a journey into a far-away country, and there all his money went in foolish living.
  • Luke 16:19 : 19 Now there was a certain man of great wealth, who was dressed in fair clothing of purple and delicate linen, and was shining and glad every day.
  • Isa 22:13 : 13 But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes.
  • 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.
  • Prov 31:6-7 : 6 Give strong drink to him who is near to destruction, and wine to him whose soul is bitter: 7 Let him have drink, and his need will go from his mind, and the memory of his trouble will be gone.
  • 1 Pet 4:3-4 : 3 Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images; 4 And they are wondering that you no longer go with them in this violent wasting of life, and are saying evil things of you:

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  • Prov 20:1
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    1Wine makes men foolish, and strong drink makes men come to blows; and whoever comes into error through these is not wise.

  • Prov 23:30-31
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    30Those who are seated late over the wine: those who go looking for mixed wine.

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    19Give ear, my son, and be wise, guiding your heart in the right way.

  • Deut 21:20
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    20And say to them, This son of ours is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, he will not give attention to us; he gives himself up to pleasure and strong drink.

  • Rom 14:20-21
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    20Do not let the work of God come to nothing on account of food. All things are certainly clean; but it is evil for that man who by taking food makes it hard for another.

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  • Jer 16:8
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    8And you are not to go into the house of feasting, or be seated with them to take food or drink.

  • Eph 5:18
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    18And do not take overmuch wine by which one may be overcome, but be full of the Spirit;

  • Prov 4:17
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    17The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.

  • Isa 5:22
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    22Cursed are those who are strong to take wine, and great in making mixed drinks!

  • Prov 23:1-3
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  • Joel 1:5
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    5Come out of your sleep, you who are overcome with wine, and give yourselves to weeping; give cries of sorrow, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it has been cut off from your mouths.

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    5A curse on the cruel and false one! the man full of pride, who never has enough; who makes his desires wide as the underworld! he is like death; he is never full, but he makes all nations come to him, getting all peoples together to himself.

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    11Cursed are those who get up early in the morning to give themselves up to strong drink; who keep on drinking far into the night till they are heated with wine!

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    9There is no more drinking of wine with a song; strong drink will be bitter to those who take it.

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    4It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to take wine, or for rulers to say, Where is strong drink?

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    6Give strong drink to him who is near to destruction, and wine to him whose soul is bitter:

  • Prov 21:17
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    17The lover of pleasure will be a poor man: the lover of wine and oil will not get wealth.

  • 1 Cor 5:11
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    11But the sense of my letter was that if a brother had the name of being one who went after the desires of the flesh, or had the desire for other people's property, or was in the way of using violent language, or being the worse for drink, or took by force what was not his, you might not keep company with such a one, or take food with him.

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    15A 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!

  • 1 Tim 5:23
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    23Do not take only water as your drink, but take a little wine for the good of your stomach, and because you are frequently ill.

  • Eccl 10:17
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    17Happy is the land whose ruler is of noble birth, and whose chiefs take food at the right time, for strength and not for feasting.

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    15My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:

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    6Do not take the food of him who has an evil eye, or have any desire for his delicate meat:

    7For as the thoughts of his heart are, so is he: Take food and drink, he says to you; but his heart is not with you.

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    21For when you take your food, everyone takes his meal before the other; and one has not enough food, and another is the worse for drink.

  • Prov 9:5
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    5Come, take of my bread, and of my wine which is mixed.

  • Matt 11:19
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    19The Son of man has come feasting, and they say, See, a lover of food and wine, a friend of tax-farmers and sinners! And wisdom is judged to be right by her works.

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    21So now give ear to this, you who are troubled and overcome, but not with wine:

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    21Envy, 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.

  • Eph 5:7
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    7Have no part with such men;

  • Rom 13:13
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    13With right behaviour as in the day; not in pleasure-making and drinking, not in bad company and unclean behaviour, not in fighting and envy.

  • 1 Thess 5:7
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    7For 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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    34But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net:

  • Lev 10:9
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    9Take no wine, or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the Tent of meeting, that it may not be the cause of death to you; this is an order for ever through all your generations.

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    3He is to keep himself from wine and strong drink, and take no mixed wine or strong drink or any drink made from grapes, or any grapes, green or dry.

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    26Be not one of those who give their hands in an agreement, or of those who make themselves responsible for debts:

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