Proverbs 31:5

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lest they drink and forget what is decreed, and remove from all the poor their legal rights.

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  • Hab 2:5 : 5 Indeed, wine will betray the proud, restless man! His appetite is as big as Sheol’s; like death, he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations; he seizes all peoples.

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  • Prov 31:3-4
    2 verses
    84%

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

    4It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to crave strong drink,

  • Prov 31:6-9
    4 verses
    83%

    6Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those who are bitterly distressed;

    7let them drink and forget their poverty, and remember their misery no more.

    8Open your mouth on behalf of those unable to speak, for the legal rights of all the dying.

    9Open your mouth, judge in righteousness, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

  • Isa 5:22-23
    2 verses
    77%

    22Beware, those who are champions at drinking, who display great courage when mixing strong drinks.

    23They pronounce the guilty innocent for a payoff, they ignore the just cause of the innocent.

  • Prov 20:1
    76%

    1Wine is a mocker and strong drink is a brawler; whoever goes astray by them is not wise.

  • Isa 24:9
    75%

    9They no longer sing and drink wine; the beer tastes bitter to those who drink it.

  • Isa 51:21
    75%

    21So listen to this, oppressed one, who is drunk, but not from wine!

  • Isa 28:6-7
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    6He will give discernment to the one who makes judicial decisions, and strength to those who defend the city from attackers.

    7Even these men stagger because of wine, they stumble around because of beer– priests and prophets stagger because of beer, they are confused because of wine, they stumble around because of beer; they stagger while seeing prophetic visions, they totter while making legal decisions.

  • Isa 5:11
    74%

    11Beware, those who get up early to drink beer, those who keep drinking long after dark until they are intoxicated with wine.

  • Prov 23:30-31
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    74%

    30Those who linger over wine, those who go looking for mixed wine.

    31Do not look on the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.

  • Prov 4:17
    74%

    17Indeed they have eaten bread gained from wickedness and drink wine obtained from violence.

  • Hab 2:15
    73%

    15“Woe to you who force your neighbor to drink wine– you who make others intoxicated by forcing them to drink from the bowl of your furious anger, so you can look at their naked bodies.

  • Joel 1:5
    73%

    5Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you wine drinkers, because the sweet wine has been taken away from you.

  • Hos 4:11
    73%

    11Judgment of Pagan Idolatry and Cultic Prostitution Old and new wine take away the understanding of my people.

  • Eccl 10:17
    71%

    17Blessed are you, O land, when your king is the son of nobility, and your princes feast at the proper time– with self-control and not in drunkenness.

  • Esth 1:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7Drinks were served in golden containers, all of which differed from one another. Royal wine was available in abundance at the king’s expense.

    8There were no restrictions on the drinking, for the king had instructed all of his supervisors that they should do as everyone so desired.

  • Prov 23:20-21
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    71%

    20Do not spend time among drunkards, among those who eat too much meat,

    21because drunkards and gluttons become impoverished, and drowsiness clothes them with rags.

  • Exod 23:6
    71%

    6“You must not turn away justice for your poor people in their lawsuits.

  • 1 Tim 5:23
    71%

    23(Stop drinking just water, but use a little wine for your digestion and your frequent illnesses.)

  • Isa 10:2
    71%

    2to keep the poor from getting fair treatment, and to deprive the oppressed among my people of justice, so they can steal what widows own, and loot what belongs to orphans.

  • Job 12:25
    70%

    25They grope about in darkness without light; he makes them stagger like drunkards.

  • Hos 7:5
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    5At the celebration of their king, his princes become inflamed with wine; they conspire with evildoers.

  • Isa 29:9
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    9God’s People Are Spiritually Insensitive You will be shocked and amazed! You are totally blind! They are drunk, but not because of wine; they stagger, but not because of beer.

  • Ps 107:27
    70%

    27They swayed and staggered like a drunk, and all their skill proved ineffective.

  • Ps 75:8
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    8For the LORD holds in his hand a cup full of foaming wine mixed with spices, and pours it out. Surely all the wicked of the earth will slurp it up and drink it to its very last drop.”

  • Deut 16:19
    70%

    19You must not pervert justice or show favor. Do not take a bribe, for bribes blind the eyes of the wise and distort the words of the righteous.

  • Amos 5:11
    69%

    11Therefore, because you make the poor pay taxes on their crops and exact a grain tax from them, you will not live in the houses you built with chiseled stone, nor will you drink the wine from the fine vineyards you planted.

  • Amos 6:6
    69%

    6They drink wine from sacrificial bowls, and pour the very best oils on themselves. Yet they are not concerned over the ruin of Joseph.

  • Amos 2:8
    69%

    8They stretch out on clothing seized as collateral; they do so right beside every altar! They drink wine bought with the fines they have levied; they do so right in the temple of their God!

  • Deut 24:17
    69%

    17You must not pervert justice due a resident foreigner or an orphan, or take a widow’s garment as security for a loan.

  • Jer 5:28
    69%

    28That is how they have grown fat and sleek. There is no limit to the evil things they do. They do not plead the cause of the fatherless in such a way as to win it. They do not defend the rights of the poor.

  • 1 Thess 5:7
    69%

    7For those who sleep, sleep at night and those who get drunk are drunk at night.

  • Deut 25:1
    69%

    1If controversy arises between people, they should go to court for judgment. When the judges hear the case, they shall exonerate the innocent but condemn the guilty.

  • Job 31:11
    69%

    11For I would have committed a shameful act, an iniquity to be judged.

  • Deut 27:19
    69%

    19‘Cursed is the one who perverts justice for the resident foreigner, the orphan, and the widow.’ Then all the people will say,‘Amen!’

  • Ezek 44:21
    69%

    21No priest may drink wine when he enters the inner court.

  • Job 24:11
    69%

    11They press out the olive oil between the rows of olive trees; they tread the winepresses while they are thirsty.

  • Hab 2:5
    69%

    5Indeed, wine will betray the proud, restless man! His appetite is as big as Sheol’s; like death, he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations; he seizes all peoples.

  • Gen 44:5
    69%

    5Doesn’t my master drink from this cup and use it for divination? You have done wrong!’”

  • Prov 28:4
    69%

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

  • Jer 13:13
    69%

    13Then tell them,‘The LORD says,“I will soon fill all the people who live in this land with stupor. I will also fill the kings from David’s dynasty, the priests, the prophets, and the citizens of Jerusalem with stupor.

  • Jer 25:16
    69%

    16When they have drunk it, they will stagger to and fro and act insane. For I will send wars sweeping through them.”