Proverbs 23:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For those who take delight in drink and feasting will come to be in need; and through love of sleep a man will be poorly clothed.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 21:17 : 17 The lover of pleasure will be a poor man: the lover of wine and oil will not get wealth.
  • Deut 21:20 : 20 And 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.
  • Phil 3:19 : 19 Whose end is destruction, whose god is the stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, whose minds are fixed on the things of the earth.
  • Prov 6:9-9 : 9 How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep? 10 A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep: 11 Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man
  • Prov 19:15 : 15 Hate of work sends deep sleep on a man: and he who has no industry will go without food.
  • Prov 24:30-34 : 30 I went by the field of the hater of work, and by the vine-garden of the man without sense; 31 And it was all full of thorns, and covered with waste plants, and its stone wall was broken down. 32 Then looking at it, I gave thought: I saw, and I got teaching from it. 33 A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep: 34 So loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man.
  • Isa 28:1-3 : 1 Ho! crown of pride of those who are given up to wine in Ephraim, and the dead flower of his glory which is on the head of those who are overcome by strong drink! 2 See, the Lord has a strong and cruel one; like a rain of ice, a storm of destruction, like the overflowing of a strong river, he will violently overcome them. 3 The crown of pride of those who are given up to wine in Ephraim will be crushed under foot;
  • Joel 1:5 : 5 Come 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.
  • 1 Cor 5:11 : 11 But 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.
  • 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 23:20
    82%

    20Do not be among those who give themselves to wine-drinking, or among those who make themselves full with meat:

  • Deut 21:20
    77%

    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.

  • Prov 19:15
    76%

    15Hate of work sends deep sleep on a man: and he who has no industry will go without food.

  • Prov 21:17
    75%

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

  • Prov 20:1
    73%

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

  • Prov 20:13
    72%

    13Do not be a lover of sleep, or you will become poor: keep your eyes open, and you will have bread enough.

  • Joel 1:5
    72%

    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.

  • Hab 2:15
    72%

    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!

  • Eccl 10:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    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.

    18When no work is done the roof goes in, and when the hands do nothing water comes into the house.

  • 1 Thess 5:7
    72%

    7For those who are sleeping do so in the night; and those who are the worse for drink are so in the night;

  • Isa 5:11
    72%

    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!

  • Prov 31:5-7
    3 verses
    72%

    5For fear that through drinking they may come to have no respect for the law, wrongly judging the cause of those who are in trouble.

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

    7Let him have drink, and his need will go from his mind, and the memory of his trouble will be gone.

  • Prov 24:33-34
    2 verses
    71%

    33A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:

    34So loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man.

  • Prov 6:9-11
    3 verses
    71%

    9How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep?

    10A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:

    11Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man

  • Prov 13:4
    71%

    4The hater of work does not get his desires, but the soul of the hard workers will be made fat.

  • Hab 2:5
    71%

    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.

  • Prov 23:30
    71%

    30Those who are seated late over the wine: those who go looking for mixed wine.

  • Prov 21:25
    71%

    25The desire of the hater of work is death to him, for his hands will do no work.

  • Prov 4:17
    71%

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

  • Prov 19:24
    71%

    24The hater of work puts his hand deep into the basin, and will not even take it to his mouth again.

  • Prov 22:16
    70%

    16He who is cruel to the poor for the purpose of increasing his profit, and he who gives to the man of wealth, will only come to be in need.

  • Isa 51:21
    70%

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

  • 1 Cor 11:21
    70%

    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 18:9
    70%

    9He who does not give his mind to his work is brother to him who makes destruction.

  • Isa 5:22
    70%

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

  • Prov 23:22
    70%

    22Give ear to your father whose child you are, and do not keep honour from your mother when she is old.

  • Luke 21:34
    70%

    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:

  • Prov 26:15
    70%

    15The hater of work puts his hand deep into the basin: lifting it again to his mouth is a weariness to him.

  • Prov 26:9
    70%

    9Like 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.

  • Isa 56:12
    69%

    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.

  • Isa 28:7
    69%

    7And 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.

  • Prov 10:4
    69%

    4He who is slow in his work becomes poor, but the hand of the ready worker gets in wealth.

  • Prov 28:22
    69%

    22He who is ever desiring wealth goes running after money, and does not see that need will come on him.

  • Eccl 5:12
    69%

    12There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.

  • Isa 28:3
    69%

    3The crown of pride of those who are given up to wine in Ephraim will be crushed under foot;

  • Prov 13:23
    69%

    23There is much food in the ploughed land of the poor; but it is taken away by wrongdoing.

  • Prov 23:2
    69%

    2And put a knife to your throat, if you have a strong desire for food.

  • Prov 12:24
    69%

    24The hand of the ready worker will have authority, but he who is slow in his work will be put to forced work.

  • Prov 28:19
    69%

    19By ploughing his land a man will have bread in full measure; but he who goes after good-for-nothing persons will be poor enough.

  • Matt 24:49
    68%

    49And is cruel to the other servants, taking his pleasure with those who are overcome with wine;

  • Luke 7:34
    68%

    34The Son of man came feasting, and you say, Here is a lover of food and wine, a friend of tax-farmers and sinners.

  • Isa 24:9
    68%

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

  • Nah 1:10
    68%

    10For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.