Proverbs 23:21

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 21:17 : 17 He who loves pleasure shall be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil shall not be rich.
  • Deut 21:20 : 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."
  • Phil 3:19 : 19 whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
  • Prov 6:9-9 : 9 How long will you sleep, 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 your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.
  • Prov 19:15 : 15 Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.
  • Prov 24:30-34 : 30 I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; 31 Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down. 32 Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction: 33 a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep; 34 so your poverty will come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.
  • Isa 28:1-3 : 1 Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine! 2 Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one. Like a storm of hail, a destroying storm, and like a storm of mighty waters overflowing, he will cast them down to the earth with his hand. 3 The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden under foot.
  • Joel 1:5 : 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.
  • 1 Cor 5:11 : 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.
  • 1 Cor 6:10 : 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortioners, will inherit the Kingdom of God.
  • Gal 5:21 : 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.

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

  • 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."

  • Prov 19:15
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    15 Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.

  • 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.

  • 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 20:13
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    13 Don't love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

  • 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 2:15
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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!

  • Eccl 10:17-18
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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!

    18 By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.

  • 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.

  • 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!

  • Prov 31:5-7
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    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:

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

  • Prov 24:33-34
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    33 a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep;

    34 so your poverty will come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.

  • Prov 6:9-11
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    9 How long will you sleep, 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 your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.

  • Prov 13:4
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    4 The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

  • 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.

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

  • Prov 21:25
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    25 The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.

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

  • Prov 19:24
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    24 The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

  • Prov 22:16
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    16 Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

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

  • 1 Cor 11:21
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    21 For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.

  • Prov 18:9
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    9 One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.

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

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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.

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    15 The sluggard buries his hand in the dish. He is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.

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

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  • Prov 10:4
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    22 A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn't know that poverty waits for him.

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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 of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden under foot.

  • Prov 13:23
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    23 An abundance of food is in poor people's fields, but injustice sweeps it away.

  • Prov 23:2
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    2 put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.

  • Prov 12:24
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    24 The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.

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    19 One who works his land will have an abundance of food; but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.

  • Matt 24:49
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    49 and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards,

  • Luke 7:34
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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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    9 They will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it.

  • Nah 1:10
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    10 For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.