Proverbs 23:20

World English Bible (2000)

Don't be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:

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  • Isa 5:22 : 22 Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at mixing strong drink;
  • Rom 13:13 : 13 Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.
  • Eph 5:18 : 18 Don't be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,
  • Isa 5:11 : 11 Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!
  • Luke 21:34 : 34 "So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.
  • Prov 28:7 : 7 Whoever keeps the law is a wise son; but he who is a companion of gluttons shames his father.
  • Prov 20:1 : 1 Wine is a mocker, and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
  • Matt 24:49 : 49 and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards,
  • Luke 15:13 : 13 Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.
  • Luke 16:19 : 19 "Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.
  • Isa 22:13 : 13 and behold, joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die."
  • Prov 23:29-35 : 29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes? 30 Those who stay long at the wine; those who go to seek out mixed wine. 31 Don't look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it 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 mind will imagine confusing things. 34 Yes, you will be as he who lies down in the midst of the sea, or as he who lies on top of the rigging: 35 "They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don't feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I can find another."
  • Prov 31:6-7 : 6 Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish; and wine to the bitter in soul: 7 Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
  • 1 Pet 4:3-4 : 3 For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries. 4 They think it is strange that you don't run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:

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    21 for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

  • Prov 20:1
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    1 Wine is a mocker, and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

  • Prov 23:30-31
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    30 Those who stay long at the wine; those who go to seek out mixed wine.

    31 Don't look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.

  • Prov 23:19
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    19 Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path!

  • Deut 21:20
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    20 and they shall tell 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."

  • Rom 14:20-21
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    20 Don't overthrow God's work for food's sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.

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  • Jer 16:8
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    8 You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink.

  • Eph 5:18
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    18 Don't be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

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

  • Isa 5:22
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    22 Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at mixing strong drink;

  • Prov 23:1-3
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    1 When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you;

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  • Joel 1:5
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    5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

  • Hab 2:5
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    5 Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. A haughty man who doesn't stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can't be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.

  • 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 stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!

  • Isa 24:9
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    9 They will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it.

  • 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 princes to say, 'Where is strong drink?'

    5 lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.

    6 Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish; and wine to the bitter in soul:

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

  • 1 Cor 5:11
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    11 But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. Don't even eat with such a person.

  • Hab 2:15
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    15 "Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!

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

  • Eccl 10:17
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    17 Happy are you, 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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    11 Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.

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    15 My son, don't walk in the way with them. Keep your foot from their path,

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

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    7 They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.

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    6 Don't eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don't crave his delicacies:

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    21 For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.

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    5 "Come, eat some of my bread, Drink some of the wine which I have mixed!

  • Matt 11:19
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    19 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' But wisdom is justified by her children."

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

  • Gal 5:21
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    21 envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

  • Eph 5:7
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    7 Therefore don't be partakers with them.

  • Rom 13:13
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    13 Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

  • 1 Thess 5:7
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    7 For those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

  • Luke 21:34
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    34 "So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

  • Lev 10:9
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    9 "Drink no wine nor strong drink, you, nor your sons with you, when you go into the Tent of Meeting, that you don't die: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations:

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

  • Prov 22:26
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    26 Don't you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts.

  • Isa 56:12
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    12 "Come," [say they], "I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, [a day] great beyond measure."