Ephesians 5:18

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And do not get drunk with wine, which leads to reckless living, but be filled with the Spirit.

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  • Prov 20:1 : 1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
  • Isa 5:22 : 22 Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine and valiant at mixing strong drink,
  • Luke 1:15 : 15 For he will be great in the sight of the Lord and will never drink wine or strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother’s womb.
  • Rom 13:13 : 13 Let us walk properly, as in the daytime, not in revelries and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy.
  • 1 Cor 5:11 : 11 But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister but is sexually immoral, greedy, an idolater, a slanderer, a drunkard, or a swindler. With such a person, do not even eat.
  • 1 Thess 5:7 : 7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.
  • 1 Pet 4:3-4 : 3 For you have already spent enough time in the past doing what the Gentiles choose to do, living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry. 4 They are surprised that you do not join them in their reckless, wild living, and they heap abuse on you.
  • Isa 5:11-13 : 11 Woe to those who rise early in the morning to chase after strong drink, and who continue into the evening, inflamed by wine. 12 They have harps and lyres, tambourines and flutes, and wine at their banquets, but they pay no attention to the deeds of the Lord or consider the work of His hands. 13 Therefore, my people have gone into exile because of lack of knowledge; their nobles are dying of hunger, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.
  • Gal 5:21-25 : 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.
  • 1 Cor 6:10 : 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
  • Luke 21:34 : 34 Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with indulgence, drunkenness, and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you suddenly like a trap.
  • Prov 23:20-21 : 20 Do not be among heavy drinkers of wine or gluttons of meat. 21 For the drunkard and the glutton will become poor, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.
  • Prov 23:29-35 : 29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes? 30 Those who linger over wine, who go to sample mixed drinks. 31 Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly. 32 In the end, it bites like a snake and poisons like a viper. 33 Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart will utter perverse things. 34 You will be like one lying down in the middle of the sea, or like one lying on the top of a mast. 35 'They struck me,' you will say, 'but I was not hurt; they beat me, but I did not feel it. When will I wake up so I can look for another drink?'
  • Gen 9:21 : 21 He drank some of the wine, became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent.
  • Deut 21:20 : 20 They shall say to the elders, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not listen to us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.’
  • Ps 63:3-5 : 3 So I have seen you in the sanctuary, to behold your power and your glory. 4 Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you. 5 So I will bless you as long as I live; in your name, I will lift up my hands.
  • Luke 11:13 : 13 If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!
  • Luke 12:45 : 45 But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,
  • Acts 2:13-18 : 13 But others mocked and said, 'They are full of new wine.' 14 Then Peter stood up with the eleven, raised his voice and addressed the crowd: 'Men of Judea and all who live in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen carefully to my words.' 15 'These people are not drunk, as you suppose. It’s only nine in the morning!' 16 'No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel.' 17 ‘In the last days,’ says God, ‘I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams. 18 Even on My servants, both men and women, I will pour out My Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.
  • Acts 11:24 : 24 For he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and faith, and a large number of people were added to the Lord.
  • Isa 25:6 : 6 On this mountain, the LORD of hosts will prepare a feast of rich food for all peoples, a banquet of aged wine—the best of meats and the finest of wines.
  • Zech 9:15-17 : 15 The LORD of Hosts will defend them; they will devour and subdue with slingstones. They will drink and roar as with wine; they will be filled like a sacrificial bowl, like the corners of the altar. 16 On that day, the LORD their God will save them as the flock of His people; they will sparkle in His land like jewels in a crown. 17 How beautiful and delightful they will be! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine, the young women.
  • Matt 23:25 : 25 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
  • Ps 69:12 : 12 I wore sackcloth as my clothing and became a byword to them.
  • Gen 19:32-35 : 32 "Come, let us get our father to drink wine and sleep with him so that we can preserve our family line through our father." 33 That night, they made their father drink wine, and the older daughter went in and lay with him. He was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up. 34 The next day, the older daughter said to the younger, "Last night I lay with my father. Let’s make him drink wine again tonight, and you go in and lie with him so we can preserve our family line through him." 35 So they got their father to drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went in and lay with him. Again, he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.
  • Song 1:4 : 4 Take me away with you—let us run! The king has brought me into his chambers. We will rejoice and be glad in you; we will celebrate your love more than wine. Rightly do they love you.
  • 1 Cor 11:21 : 21 For when you eat, each one takes his own supper ahead of others. One goes hungry, and another gets drunk.
  • Titus 1:6 : 6 An elder must be blameless, the husband of one wife, with faithful children who are not accused of wild living or rebellion.
  • Song 7:9 : 9 I said, 'I will climb the palm tree and take hold of its branches.' Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the fragrance of your breath like apples.
  • Matt 24:49 : 49 and he then begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards.
  • Isa 55:1 : 1 Come, everyone who is thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.

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