Proverbs 23:31
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:
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- 2 Sam 11:2 : 2 Now one evening, David got up from his bed, and while he was walking on the roof of the king's house, he saw from there a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.
- Job 33:1 : 1 And now, O Job, give ear to my words, and take note of all I say.
- Ps 119:37 : 37 Let my eyes be turned away from what is false; give me life in your ways.
- Prov 6:25 : 25 Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.
- Matt 5:28-30 : 28 But I say to you that everyone whose eyes are turned on a woman with desire has had connection with her in his heart. 29 And if your right eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out and put it away from you; because it is better to undergo the loss of one part, than for all your body to go into hell. 30 And if your right hand is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off and put it away from you; because it is better to undergo the loss of one part, than for all your body to go into hell.
- Mark 9:47 : 47 And if your eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out: it is better for you to go into the kingdom of God with one eye than, having two eyes, to go into hell,
- 1 John 2:16 : 16 Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world.
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- Prov 23:29-302 verses85%
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.
- Prov 23:32-332 verses78%
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.
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1 Wine makes men foolish, and strong drink makes men come to blows; and whoever comes into error through these is not wise.
- Prov 23:19-213 verses76%
19 Give ear, my son, and be wise, guiding your heart in the right way.
20 Do not be among those who give themselves to wine-drinking, or among those who make themselves full with meat:
21 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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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!
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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?
5 For fear that through drinking they may come to have no respect for the law, wrongly judging the cause of those who are in trouble.
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.
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9 There is no more drinking of wine with a song; strong drink will be bitter to those who take it.
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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!
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11 Loose ways and new wine take away wisdom.
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22 Cursed are those who are strong to take wine, and great in making mixed drinks!
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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.
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39 And no man, having had old wine, has any desire for new, for he says, The old is better.
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23 Do not take only water as your drink, but take a little wine for the good of your stomach, and because you are frequently ill.
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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 A 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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9 Be surprised and full of wonder; let your eyes be covered and be blind: be overcome, but not with wine; go with uncertain steps, but not because of strong drink.
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33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, the cruel poison of snakes.
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3 He 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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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.
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21 So now give ear to this, you who are troubled and overcome, but not with wine:
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7 The new wine is thin, the vine is feeble, and all the glad-hearted make sounds of grief.
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9 Take 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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18 They go quickly on the face of the waters; their heritage is cursed in the earth; the steps of the crusher of grapes are not turned to their vine-garden.
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25 Keep your eyes on what is in front of you, looking straight before you.
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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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2 In that day it will be said, A vine-garden of delight, make a song about it.
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8 For in the hand of the Lord is a cup, and the wine is red; it is well mixed, overflowing from his hand: he will make all the sinners of the earth take of it, even to the last drop.
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3 I made a search with my heart to give pleasure to my flesh with wine, still guiding my heart with wisdom, and to go after foolish things, so that I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under the heavens all the days of their life.
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25 Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.
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21 It is better not to take meat or wine or to do anything which might be a cause of trouble to your brother.
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11 There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; there is an end of all delight, the joy of the land is gone.
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21 The priests are not to take wine when they go into the inner square.
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22 Your silver is no longer true metal, your wine is mixed with water.
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10 And said to him, Every man first puts out his best wine and when all have had enough he puts out what is not so good; but you have kept the good wine till now.
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37 And no man puts new wine into old wine-skins, for fear that the skins will be burst by the new wine, and the wine be let out, and the skins come to destruction.
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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!
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39 You will put in vines and take care of them, but you will get no wine or grapes from them; for they will be food for worms.
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12 His eyes will be dark with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
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18 And do not take overmuch wine by which one may be overcome, but be full of the Spirit;
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7 Come, take your bread with joy, and your wine with a glad heart. God has taken pleasure in your works.