Hosea 4:11

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Fornication, wine, and new wine take away the heart and understanding.

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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 28:7 : 7 But these also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are confused by wine, they stagger because of strong drink—they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
  • 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.
  • Isa 5:12 : 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.
  • Prov 6:32 : 32 But a man who commits adultery has no sense; he destroys himself.
  • Prov 23:27-35 : 27 For a prostitute is a deep pit, and a narrow well is a deceitful woman. 28 She also lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men. 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?'
  • Eccl 7:7 : 7 Surely oppression drives the wise into madness, and a bribe corrupts the heart.
  • Rom 13:11-14 : 11 And do this, knowing the time, that the hour has already come for you to wake from sleep. For our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. 12 The night is far gone, and the day is near. So let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. 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. 14 But clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not make provision for the desires of the flesh.
  • Hos 4:12 : 12 My people consult their wooden idols, and their staffs provide guidance for them. A spirit of prostitution has led them astray; they have been unfaithful under their God.

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  • 10 They will eat but not be satisfied; they will commit fornication but not multiply, because they have abandoned the LORD to pursue their own ways.

  • 5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you wine drinkers, because of the fresh wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.

  • 12 My people consult their wooden idols, and their staffs provide guidance for them. A spirit of prostitution has led them astray; they have been unfaithful under their God.

  • 18 Their drink has turned them aside; they persist in their immorality. They love shame more than their honor.

  • 7 The new wine dries up, the vine withers, and all the merry-hearted groan.

  • 1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

  • Isa 5:11-12
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    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.

  • 2 The threshing floor and the winepress will not provide for them, and the new wine will fail them.

  • Prov 31:4-6
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    4 It is not for kings, Lemuel—it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for rulers to crave strong drink.

    5 Lest they drink and forget what has been decreed, and deprive all the oppressed of their rights.

    6 Let beer be for those who are perishing, wine for those who are bitter of heart.

  • 4 Their deeds do not allow them to return to their God, for a spirit of prostitution is within them, and they do not know the Lord.

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    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.

  • 17 They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

  • 15 Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbor, pouring out your wrath and making him drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!

  • 11 In the streets, there is an outcry over the wine; all joy turns dark, and the gladness of the earth departs.

  • 7 But these also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are confused by wine, they stagger because of strong drink—they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

  • 2 With her, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her immorality.

  • 9 They no longer drink wine with song; strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.

  • 3 For all the nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the abundance of her luxurious living.

  • 39 And no one after drinking old wine wants new wine, for they say, 'The old is better.'

  • 30 ‘How weak is your heart,’ declares the Lord GOD, ‘that you do all these things, the actions of a brazen prostitute!

  • 5 Indeed, because wine betrays, and an arrogant man is restless, enlarging his appetite like Sheol and never satisfied, he gathers all the nations to himself and collects all peoples as his own.

  • 4 All this because of the abundant prostitution of a well-favored harlot, a skilled sorceress, who ensnares nations with her lust and peoples with her witchcraft.

  • 14 Eli said to her, 'How long will you remain drunk? Put away your wine!'

  • 1 Then the Lord said to me, "Go again and love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, just as the Lord loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes."

  • 22 Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine and valiant at mixing strong drink,

  • 20 Do not be among heavy drinkers of wine or gluttons of meat.

  • 26 For a prostitute reduces you to a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man hunts a precious life.

  • 9 Because Israel's immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and wood.

  • 22 Your silver has become dross, your wine is diluted with water.

  • 35 Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the LORD.

  • 17 who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God;

  • 5 Otherwise, I will strip her naked, expose her as on the day of her birth. I will make her like a wilderness, turn her into a dry land, and let her die of thirst.

  • 17 Then the Babylonians came to her, to her bed of love, and defiled her with their lust. After she was defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust.

  • 20 Why, my son, should you be captivated by a forbidden woman or embrace the bosom of a stranger?

  • 14 They do not cry out to me from their hearts but wail on their beds. They gather together for grain and new wine but turn away from me.

  • 37 And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins, it will spill out, and the skins will be ruined.

  • 21 Therefore hear this, you afflicted one, who are drunk but not with wine.

  • 15 What right does my beloved have in my house, when she has done so many wicked schemes? Can consecrated meat remove your evil? Then you would exult!

  • 9 Be astonished and amazed! Blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunk, but not with wine—they stagger, but not from strong drink.

  • 32 You adulterous wife, who prefers strangers instead of her own husband!

  • 17 You also took the fine jewelry made of gold and silver that I had given you, and you made male idols for yourself and engaged in prostitution with them.

  • 25 Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths.

  • Prov 9:4-5
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    4 "Whoever is simple, let them turn in here! To those who lack understanding, she says:

    5 Come, eat my bread and drink the wine I have mixed.

  • 10 The fields are devastated, and the ground mourns, because the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the olive oil fails.