Proverbs 23:21

KJV1611 – Modern English

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty, and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

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  • Prov 21:17 : 17 He who loves pleasure will be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil will not be rich.
  • Deut 21:20 : 20 And they shall say to the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.
  • Phil 3:19 : 19 Whose end is destruction, whose god is their stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their mind on earthly things.
  • Prov 6:9-9 : 9 How long will you sleep, O sluggard? when will you arise out of your sleep? 10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: 11 So shall your poverty come upon you like a traveler, and your need like an armed man.
  • Prov 19:15 : 15 Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
  • Prov 24:30-34 : 30 I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding. 31 And, behold, it was all overgrown with thorns, its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down. 32 Then I saw, and considered it well; I looked upon it, and received instruction. 33 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep. 34 So shall your poverty come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.
  • Isa 28:1-3 : 1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which is on the head of the fertile valleys of those who are overcome with wine! 2 Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one, like a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, like a flood of mighty waters overflowing, who shall cast down to the earth with the hand. 3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trampled underfoot:
  • Joel 1:5 : 5 Awake, you drunkards, and weep; and howl, all you drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
  • 1 Cor 5:11 : 11 But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone who is called a brother if he is sexually immoral, or greedy, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person.
  • 1 Cor 6:10 : 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
  • Gal 5:21 : 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 23:20
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    20 Do not be among winebibbers, among gluttonous eaters of meat:

  • Deut 21:20
    77%

    20 And they shall say to the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.

  • Prov 19:15
    76%

    15 Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

  • Prov 21:17
    75%

    17 He who loves pleasure will be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil will not be rich.

  • Prov 20:1
    73%

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

  • Prov 20:13
    72%

    13 Do not love sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

  • Joel 1:5
    72%

    5 Awake, you drunkards, and weep; and howl, all you drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

  • Hab 2:15
    72%

    15 Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, who puts the bottle to him, and makes him drunk also, that you may look on their nakedness!

  • Eccl 10:17-18
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    72%

    17 Blessed are you, O land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

    18 By much slothfulness the building decays; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.

  • 1 Thess 5:7
    72%

    7 For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

  • Isa 5:11
    72%

    11 Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; who continue until night, till wine inflames them!

  • Prov 31:5-7
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    5 Lest they drink and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

    6 Give strong drink to him who is perishing, and wine to those of heavy hearts.

    7 Let him drink and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

  • Prov 24:33-34
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    71%

    33 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep.

    34 So shall your poverty come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.

  • Prov 6:9-11
    3 verses
    71%

    9 How long will you sleep, O sluggard? when will you arise out of your sleep?

    10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

    11 So shall your poverty come upon you like a traveler, and your need like an armed man.

  • Prov 13:4
    71%

    4 The soul of the sluggard desires and has nothing, but the soul of the diligent shall be made rich.

  • Hab 2:5
    71%

    5 Indeed, because he transgresses by wine, he is a proud man, neither stays at home, who enlarges his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all people:

  • Prov 23:30
    71%

    30 Those who linger long at the wine, those who go to seek mixed wine.

  • Prov 21:25
    71%

    25 The desire of the slothful kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.

  • Prov 4:17
    71%

    17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

  • Prov 19:24
    71%

    24 A slothful man hides his hand in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

  • Prov 22:16
    70%

    16 He who oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he who gives to the rich, shall surely come to want.

  • Isa 51:21
    70%

    21 Therefore hear now this, you afflicted, and drunk, but not with wine:

  • 1 Cor 11:21
    70%

    21 For in eating, each one takes his own supper ahead of others, and one is hungry and another is drunk.

  • Prov 18:9
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    9 He who is slothful in his work is brother to him who is a great waster.

  • Isa 5:22
    70%

    22 Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mix strong drink:

  • Prov 23:22
    70%

    22 Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

  • Luke 21:34
    70%

    34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be burdened with surfeiting, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day comes upon you unexpectedly.

  • Prov 26:15
    70%

    15 The lazy man hides his hand in his bosom; it grieves him to bring it back to his mouth.

  • Prov 26:9
    70%

    9 Like a thorn that goes into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

  • Isa 56:12
    69%

    12 Come, they say, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.

  • Isa 28:7
    69%

    7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up by wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

  • Prov 10:4
    69%

    4 He becomes poor who deals with a slack hand, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

  • Prov 28:22
    69%

    22 He who hastens to be rich has an evil eye and does not consider that poverty shall come upon him.

  • Eccl 5:12
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    12 The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

  • Isa 28:3
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    3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trampled underfoot:

  • Prov 13:23
    69%

    23 Much food is in the tillage of the poor, but there is that which is destroyed for lack of judgment.

  • Prov 23:2
    69%

    2 And put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.

  • Prov 12:24
    69%

    24 The hand of the diligent will rule, but the lazy will be put to forced labor.

  • Prov 28:19
    69%

    19 He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who follows vain persons shall have poverty enough.

  • Matt 24:49
    68%

    49 and begins to beat his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunkards,

  • Luke 7:34
    68%

    34 The Son of Man has come eating and drinking; and you say, Look, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!

  • Isa 24:9
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    9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to those who drink it.

  • Nah 1:10
    68%

    10 For while they are entangled like thorns and while they are drunken like drunkards, they shall be devoured as fully dry stubble.