Proverbs 23:31

KJV1611 – Modern English

Do not look upon the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it swirls smoothly.

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  • 2 Sam 11:2 : 2 And it happened one evening that David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king's house. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to behold.
  • Job 33:1 : 1 Therefore, Job, I beg you, listen to my speeches, and pay attention to all my words.
  • Ps 119:37 : 37 Turn away my eyes from looking at worthless things, and revive me in Your way.
  • Prov 6:25 : 25 Do not lust after her beauty in your heart; neither let her take you with her eyelids.
  • Matt 5:28-30 : 28 But I say to you, that whoever looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 And if your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you: for it is better for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell. 30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you: for it is better for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.
  • Mark 9:47 : 47 And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire;
  • 1 John 2:16 : 16 For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father, but is of the world.

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  • Prov 23:29-30
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    85%

    29Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?

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

  • Prov 23:32-33
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    78%

    32At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like a viper.

    33Your eyes shall see strange things, and your heart shall utter perverse things.

  • Prov 20:1
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    1Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.

  • Prov 23:19-21
    3 verses
    76%

    19Hear, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart in the way.

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

    21For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty, and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

  • Hab 2:15
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    15Woe 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!

  • Prov 31:4-7
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    4It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for princes to crave strong drink.

    5Lest they drink and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

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

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

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

  • Isa 5:11
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    11Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; who continue until night, till wine inflames them!

  • Hos 4:11
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    11Harlotry and wine and new wine take away the heart.

  • Isa 5:22
    72%

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

  • Joel 1:5
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    5Awake, you drunkards, and weep; and howl, all you drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

  • Luke 5:39
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    39No one, having drunk old wine, immediately desires new; for he says, The old is better.

  • 1 Tim 5:23
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    23No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake and your frequent infirmities.

  • Prov 4:17
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    17For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

  • Hab 2:5
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    5Indeed, 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:

  • Isa 29:9
    70%

    9Pause and wonder; cry out and cry: they are drunk, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

  • Deut 32:33
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    33Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.

  • Num 6:3
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    3He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any grape juice, nor eat fresh grapes or dried.

  • Isa 28:7
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    7But 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.

  • Isa 51:21
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    21Therefore hear now this, you afflicted, and drunk, but not with wine:

  • Isa 24:7
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    7The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted do sigh.

  • Lev 10:9
    69%

    9'Do not drink wine or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the tabernacle of meeting, lest you die. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations,

  • Job 24:18
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    18He is as swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth; he does not behold the way of the vineyards.

  • Prov 4:25
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    25Let your eyes look straight ahead, and let your eyelids look straight before you.

  • Prov 21:17
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    17He who loves pleasure will be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil will not be rich.

  • Isa 27:2
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    2In that day sing to her, A vineyard of red wine.

  • Ps 75:8
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    8For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture, and he pours out the same; but the dregs of it, all the wicked of the earth shall drain and drink.

  • Eccl 2:3
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    3I searched in my heart to give myself to wine, while guiding my heart with wisdom, and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what is good for the sons of men to do under heaven all the days of their lives.

  • Prov 6:25
    68%

    25Do not lust after her beauty in your heart; neither let her take you with her eyelids.

  • Rom 14:21
    68%

    21It is good neither to eat meat nor drink wine nor do anything by which your brother stumbles or is offended or is made weak.

  • Isa 24:11
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    11There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.

  • Ezek 44:21
    68%

    21No priest shall drink wine when they enter the inner court.

  • Isa 1:22
    68%

    22Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water:

  • John 2:10
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    10And said to him, Every man at the beginning sets out the good wine, and when the guests have drunk freely, then the inferior. But you have kept the good wine until now.

  • Luke 5:37
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    37And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined.

  • Isa 28:1
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    1Woe 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!

  • Deut 28:39
    68%

    39You shall plant vineyards, and dress them, but shall neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.

  • Gen 49:12
    67%

    12His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.

  • Eph 5:18
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    18And do not be drunk with wine, in which is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

  • Eccl 9:7
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    7Go your way, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God now accepts your works.