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