Proverbs 31:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Hab 2:5 : 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:

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    3 Do not give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.

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  • Prov 31:6-9
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    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.

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  • Isa 5:22-23
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    22 Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mix strong drink:

    23 Who justify the wicked for a reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

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

  • 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.

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

  • Isa 28:6-7
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    6 And for a spirit of judgment to him who sits in judgment, and for strength to those who turn the battle to the gate.

    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.

  • Isa 5:11
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    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 23:30-31
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    30 Those who linger long at the wine, those who go to seek mixed wine.

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

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    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!

  • Joel 1:5
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    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.

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    11 Harlotry and wine and new wine take away the heart.

  • Eccl 10:17
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    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!

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    7 And they gave them drink in vessels of gold (the vessels being different one from another), and royal wine in abundance, according to the state of the king.

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  • Prov 23:20-21
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    20 Do not be among winebibbers, among gluttonous eaters of meat:

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    6 You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his dispute.

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

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  • Job 12:25
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    25 They grope in the dark without light, and He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

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

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    27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.

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    8 For 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.

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    19 You shall not pervert justice; you shall not show partiality, nor take a bribe: for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.

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    11 Since you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.

  • Amos 6:6
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    6 Who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the finest ointments: but are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.

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    8 They lie down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.

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    17 You shall not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's clothing as a pledge:

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    28 They have grown fat, they shine: yes, they surpass the deeds of the wicked: they do not judge the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy they do not judge.

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

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    11 For this would be a heinous crime; yes, it is an iniquity to be judged.

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    19 Cursed be he who perverts the judgment of the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

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

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    11 They make oil within their walls and tread their winepresses, and still they thirst.

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    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:

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    5 Is this not the cup my lord drinks from, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in doing so.

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    4 Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law contend with them.

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    13 Then you shall say to them, Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit on David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.

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    16 And they shall drink, and stagger, and go mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.