Proverbs 23:31

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 11:2 : 2 It happened at evening, that David arose from off 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 look on.
  • Job 33:1 : 1 "However, Job, please hear my speech, and listen to all my words.
  • Ps 119:37 : 37 Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.
  • Prov 6:25 : 25 Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.
  • Matt 5:28-30 : 28 but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart. 29 If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna. 30 If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.
  • Mark 9:47 : 47 If your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out. It is better for you to enter into the Kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of 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, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.

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  • Prov 23:29-30
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    29Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?

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

  • Prov 23:32-33
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    32In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.

    33Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing things.

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

  • Prov 23:19-21
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    19Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path!

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

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

  • 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!

  • Prov 31:4-7
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    4It is not for kings, Lemuel; it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes to say, 'Where is strong drink?'

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

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

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

  • Isa 24:9
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    9They will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will 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 stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!

  • Hos 4:11
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    11Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.

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

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

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

  • 1 Tim 5:23
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    23Be no longer a drinker of water only, 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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    5Yes, 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 29:9
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    9Pause and wonder! Blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

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

  • Num 6:3
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    3he 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.

  • Isa 28:7
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    7They 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.

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

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

  • 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:

  • Job 24:18
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    18"They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They don't turn into the way of the vineyards.

  • Prov 4:25
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    25Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.

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

  • Isa 27:2
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    2In that day, sing to her, "A pleasant vineyard!

  • Ps 75:8
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    8For in the hand of Yahweh there is a cup, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours it out. Indeed the wicked of the earth drink and drink it to its very dregs.

  • Eccl 2:3
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    3I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.

  • Prov 6:25
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    25Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

  • Rom 14:21
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    21It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

  • Isa 24:11
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    11There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone.

  • Ezek 44:21
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    21Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.

  • Isa 1:22
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    22Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water.

  • John 2:10
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    10and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine until now!"

  • Luke 5:37
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    37No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.

  • Isa 28:1
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    1Woe 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!

  • Deut 28:39
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    39You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine, nor gather [the grapes]; for the worm shall eat them.

  • Gen 49:12
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    12His eyes will be red with wine, his teeth white with milk.

  • Eph 5:18
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    18Don't be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, 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 has already accepted your works.