Proverbs 23:20

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Be not thou among quaffers of wine, Among gluttonous ones of flesh,

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 5:22 : 22 Wo `to' the mighty to drink wine, And men of strength to mingle strong drink.
  • Rom 13:13 : 13 as in day-time, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkennesses, not in chamberings and lasciviousnesses, not in strife and emulation;
  • Eph 5:18 : 18 and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,
  • Isa 5:11 : 11 Wo `to' those rising early in the morning, Strong drink they pursue! Tarrying in twilight, wine inflameth them!
  • Luke 21:34 : 34 `And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you,
  • Prov 28:7 : 7 Whoso is keeping the law is an intelligent son, And a friend of gluttons, Doth cause his father to blush.
  • Prov 20:1 : 1 Wine `is' a scorner -- strong drink `is' noisy, And any going astray in it is not wise.
  • Matt 24:49 : 49 and may begin to beat the fellow-servants, and to eat and to drink with the drunken,
  • Luke 15:13 : 13 `And not many days after, having gathered all together, the younger son went abroad to a far country, and there he scattered his substance, living riotously;
  • Luke 16:19 : 19 `And -- a certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, making merry sumptuously every day,
  • Isa 22:13 : 13 And lo, joy and gladness, slaying of oxen, And slaughtering of sheep, Eating of flesh, and drinking of wine, Eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.
  • Prov 23:29-35 : 29 Who hath wo? who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? who hath plaint? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes? 30 Those tarrying by the wine, Those going in to search out mixed wine. 31 See not wine when it showeth itself red, When it giveth in the cup its colour, It goeth up and down through the upright. 32 Its latter end -- as a serpent it biteth, And as a basilisk it stingeth. 33 Thine eyes see strange women, And thy heart speaketh perverse things. 34 And thou hast been as one lying down in the heart of the sea, And as one lying down on the top of a mast. 35 `They smote me, I have not been sick, They beat me, I have not known. When I awake -- I seek it yet again!'
  • Prov 31:6-7 : 6 Give strong drink to the perishing, And wine to the bitter in soul, 7 He drinketh, and forgetteth his poverty, And his misery he remembereth not again.
  • 1 Pet 4:3-4 : 3 for sufficient to us `is' the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revelings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries, 4 in which they think it strange -- your not running with them to the same excess of dissoluteness, speaking evil,

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  • Prov 23:21
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    21For the quaffer and glutton become poor, And drowsiness clotheth with rags.

  • Prov 20:1
    79%

    1Wine `is' a scorner -- strong drink `is' noisy, And any going astray in it is not wise.

  • Prov 23:30-31
    2 verses
    77%

    30Those tarrying by the wine, Those going in to search out mixed wine.

    31See not wine when it showeth itself red, When it giveth in the cup its colour, It goeth up and down through the upright.

  • Prov 23:19
    76%

    19Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And make happy in the way thy heart,

  • Deut 21:20
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    20and have said unto the elders of his city, Our son -- this one -- is apostatizing and rebellious; he is not hearkening to our voice -- a glutton and drunkard;

  • Rom 14:20-21
    2 verses
    74%

    20for the sake of victuals cast not down the work of God; all things, indeed, `are' pure, but evil `is' to the man who is eating through stumbling.

    21Right `it is' not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to `do anything' in which thy brother doth stumble, or is made to fall, or is weak.

  • Jer 16:8
    74%

    8A house of banqueting thou dost not enter, To sit with them, to eat and to drink,

  • Eph 5:18
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    18and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,

  • Prov 4:17
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    17For they have eaten bread of wickedness, And wine of violence they drink.

  • Isa 5:22
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    22Wo `to' the mighty to drink wine, And men of strength to mingle strong drink.

  • Prov 23:1-3
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    74%

    1When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Thou considerest diligently that which `is' before thee,

    2And thou hast put a knife to thy throat, If thou `art' a man of appetite.

    3Have no desire to his dainties, seeing it `is' lying food.

  • Joel 1:5
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    5Awake, ye drunkards, and weep, And howl all drinking wine, because of the juice, For it hath been cut off from your mouth.

  • Hab 2:5
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    5And also, because the wine `is' treacherous, A man is haughty, and remaineth not at home, Who hath enlarged as sheol his soul, And is as death that is not satisfied, And doth gather unto itself all the nations, And doth assemble unto itself all the peoples,

  • Isa 5:11
    72%

    11Wo `to' those rising early in the morning, Strong drink they pursue! Tarrying in twilight, wine inflameth them!

  • Isa 24:9
    72%

    9With a song they drink not wine, Bitter is strong drink to those drinking it.

  • Prov 31:4-6
    3 verses
    72%

    4Not for kings, O Lemuel, Not for kings, to drink wine, And for princes a desire of strong drink.

    5Lest he drink, and forget the decree, And change the judgment of any of the sons of affliction.

    6Give strong drink to the perishing, And wine to the bitter in soul,

  • Prov 21:17
    72%

    17Whoso `is' loving mirth `is' a poor man, Whoso is loving wine and oil maketh no wealth.

  • 1 Cor 5:11
    72%

    11and now, I did write to you not to keep company with `him', if any one, being named a brother, may be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner -- with such a one not even to eat together;

  • Hab 2:15
    72%

    15Wo `to' him who is giving drink to his neighbour, Pouring out thy bottle, and also making drunk, In order to look on their nakedness.

  • 1 Tim 5:23
    71%

    23no longer be drinking water, but a little wine be using, because of thy stomach and of thine often infirmities;

  • Eccl 10:17
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    17Happy art thou, O land, When thy king `is' a son of freemen, And thy princes do eat in due season, For might, and not for drunkenness.

  • Hos 4:11
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    11Whoredom, and wine, and new wine, take the heart,

  • Prov 1:15
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    15My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path,

  • 1 Cor 6:10
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    10nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, the reign of God shall inherit.

  • Luke 7:34
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    34the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and ye say, Lo, a man, a glutton, and a wine drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners;

  • Isa 28:7-8
    2 verses
    70%

    7And even these through wine have erred, And through strong drink have wandered, Priest and prophet erred through strong drink, They have been swallowed up of the wine, They wandered because of the strong drink, They have erred in seeing, They have stumbled judicially.

    8For all tables have been full of vomit, Filth -- without place!

  • Prov 23:6-7
    2 verses
    70%

    6Eat not the bread of an evil eye, And have no desire to his dainties,

    7For as he hath thought in his soul, so `is' he, `Eat and drink,' saith he to thee, And his heart `is' not with thee.

  • Prov 24:1
    70%

    1Be not envious of evil men, And desire not to be with them.

  • 1 Cor 11:21
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    21for each his own supper doth take before in the eating, and one is hungry, and another is drunk;

  • Prov 9:5
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    5`Come, eat of my bread, And drink of the wine I have mingled.

  • Matt 11:19
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    19the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, Lo, a man, a glutton, and a wine-drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners, and wisdom was justified of her children.'

  • Isa 51:21
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    21Therefore, hear, I pray thee, this, O afflicted and drunken one, and not with wine,

  • Gal 5:21
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    21envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.

  • Eph 5:7
    69%

    7become not, then, partakers with them,

  • Rom 13:13
    69%

    13as in day-time, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkennesses, not in chamberings and lasciviousnesses, not in strife and emulation;

  • 1 Thess 5:7
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    7for those sleeping, by night do sleep, and those making themselves drunk, by night are drunken,

  • Luke 21:34
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    34`And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you,

  • Lev 10:9
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    9`Wine and strong drink thou dost not drink, thou, and thy sons with thee, in your going in unto the tent of meeting, and ye die not -- a statute age-during to your generations;

  • Num 6:3
    69%

    3from wine and strong drink he doth keep separate; vinegar of wine, and vinegar of strong drink he doth not drink, and any juice of grapes he doth not drink, and grapes moist or dry he doth not eat;

  • Prov 22:26
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    26Be not thou among those striking hands, Among sureties `for' burdens.

  • Isa 56:12
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    12`Come ye, I take wine, And we drink, quaff strong drink, And as this day hath been to-morrow, Great -- exceeding abundant!'