Genesis 9:21
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21 He drank some of the wine and became drunk, and he lay uncovered in his tent.
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Habakkuk 2:15-16
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15 “Alas for you who make your neighbors drink,
pouring out your wrath until they are drunk,
in order to gaze on their nakedness!”(A)
16 You will be sated with contempt instead of glory.
Drink, you yourself, and stagger![a]
The cup in the Lord’s right hand
will come around to you,
and shame will come upon your glory!(B)
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- 2.16 Q ms Gk: MT be uncircumcised
Proverbs 20:1
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20 Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler,
and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.(A)
Proverbs 23:31-32
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31 Do not look at wine when it is red,
when it sparkles in the cup
and goes down smoothly.
32 At the last it bites like a serpent
and stings like an adder.
Titus 2:2
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2 Tell the older men to be temperate, serious, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love, and in endurance.
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Galatians 5:21
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21 envy,[a] drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. I am warning you, as I warned you before: those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.(A)
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- 5.21 Other ancient authorities add murder
1 Corinthians 10:12
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12 So if you think you are standing, watch out that you do not fall.
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Romans 13:13
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13 let us walk decently as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in illicit sex and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy.(A)
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Ecclesiastes 7:20
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20 Surely there is no one on earth so righteous as to do good without ever sinning.(A)
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Genesis 19:32-36
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32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, so that we may preserve offspring through our father.”(A) 33 So they made their father drink wine that night, and the firstborn went in and lay with her father; he did not know when she lay down or when she rose. 34 On the next day, the firstborn said to the younger, “Look, I lay last night with my father; let us make him drink wine tonight also; then you go in and lie with him, so that we may preserve offspring through our father.” 35 So they made their father drink wine that night also, and the younger rose and lay with him, and he did not know when she lay down or when she rose. 36 Thus both the daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father.
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Genesis 6:9
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Noah Pleases God
9 These are the descendants of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.(A)
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Luke 22:3-4
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3 Then Satan entered into Judas called Iscariot, who was one of the twelve;(A) 4 he went away and conferred with the chief priests and officers of the temple police about how he might betray him to them.
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Revelation 3:18
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18 Therefore I advise you to buy from me gold refined by fire so that you may be rich, and white robes to clothe yourself and to keep the shame of your nakedness from being seen, and salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.(A)
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