Hosea 4:11
Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.
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- Prov 20:1 : 1 Wine is a mocker, and beer is a brawler; Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
- Isa 28:7 : 7 Even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
- 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.
- Isa 5:12 : 12 The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; But they don't regard the work of Yahweh, Neither have they considered the operation of his hands.
- Prov 6:32 : 32 He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.
- Prov 23:27-35 : 27 For a prostitute is a deep pit; And a wayward wife is a narrow well. 28 Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, And increases the unfaithful among men. 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."
- Eccl 7:7 : 7 Surely extortion makes the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroys the understanding.
- Rom 13:11-14 : 11 Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed. 12 The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let's therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let's put on the armor of light. 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. 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
- Hos 4:12 : 12 My people consult with their wooded idol, And answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, And they have been unfaithful to their God.
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10 They will eat, and not have enough. They will play the prostitute, and will not increase; Because they have abandoned giving to Yahweh.
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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.
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12 My people consult with their wooded idol, And answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, And they have been unfaithful to their God.
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18 Their drink has become sour. They play the prostitute continually. Her rulers dearly love their shameful way.
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7 The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted do sigh.
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1 Wine is a mocker, and beer is a brawler; Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
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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!
12 The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; But they don't regard the work of Yahweh, Neither have they considered the operation of his hands.
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2 The threshing floor and the winepress won't feed them, And the new wine will fail her.
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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:
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4 Their deeds won't allow them to turn to their God; For the spirit of prostitution is within them, And they don't know Yahweh.
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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:
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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, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!
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11 There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
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7 Even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
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2 with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality, and those who dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her sexual immorality."
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9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to those who drink it.
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3 For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury."
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39 No man having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says, 'The old is better.'"
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30 How weak is your heart, says the Lord Yahweh, seeing you do all these things, the work of an impudent prostitute;
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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.
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4 because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft.
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14 Eli said to her, How long will you be drunken? put away your wine from you.
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1 Yahweh said to me, "Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as Yahweh loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins."
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22 Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, And champions at mixing strong drink;
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20 Don't be among ones drinking too much wine, Or those who gorge themselves on meat:
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26 For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.
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9 It happened through the lightness of her prostitution, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
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22 Your silver has become dross, Your wine mixed with water.
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35 Therefore, prostitute, hear the word of Yahweh:
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17 Who forsakes the friend of her youth, And forgets the covenant of her God:
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5 For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully; For she said, 'I will go after my lovers, Who give me my bread and my water, My wool and my flax, My oil and my drink.'
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17 The Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution, and she was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them.
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20 For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?
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14 They haven't cried to me with their heart, But they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.
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37 No 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.
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21 Therefore hear now this, you afflicted, and drunken, but now with wine:
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15 What has my beloved to do in my house, seeing she has worked lewdness [with] many, and the holy flesh is passed from you? when you do evil, then you rejoice.
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9 Stay you and wonder; take your pleasure and be blind: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
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32 A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband!
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17 You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and played the prostitute with them;
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25 Don't let your heart turn to her ways. Don't go astray in her paths,
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4 "Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!" As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,
5 "Come, eat some of my bread, Drink some of the wine which I have mixed!
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10 The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, And the oil languishes.