11 whoredom, wine, and new wine,
    which (A)take away the understanding.

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20 (A)Wine is a mocker, (B)strong drink a brawler,
    and whoever (C)is led astray by it is not wise.[a]

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  1. Proverbs 20:1 Or will not become wise

(A)These also reel with wine
    and (B)stagger with strong drink;
the priest and (C)the prophet reel with strong drink,
    they are swallowed by[a] wine,
    they stagger with strong drink,
they reel in vision,
    they stumble in giving judgment.

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  1. Isaiah 28:7 Or confused by

Watch Yourselves

34 “But watch yourselves (A)lest (B)your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and (C)cares of this life, and (D)that day come upon you suddenly (E)like a trap.

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27 For a prostitute is (A)a deep pit;
    (B)an adulteress[a] is a narrow (C)well.
28 (D)She lies in wait like a robber
    and increases the traitors among mankind.

29 (E)Who has woe? Who has sorrow?
    Who has strife? Who has complaining?
Who has (F)wounds without cause?
    Who has (G)redness of eyes?
30 Those who (H)tarry long over wine;
    those who go to try (I)mixed wine.
31 Do not look at wine when it is red,
    when it sparkles in the cup
    and goes down smoothly.
32 In the end it (J)bites like a serpent
    and stings like an adder.
33 Your eyes will see strange things,
    and your heart utter (K)perverse things.
34 You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea,
    like one who lies on the top of a mast.[b]
35 “They (L)struck me,” you will say,[c] “but I was not hurt;
    they beat me, but I did not feel it.
When shall I awake?
    I (M)must have another drink.”

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  1. Proverbs 23:27 Hebrew a foreign woman
  2. Proverbs 23:34 Or of the rigging
  3. Proverbs 23:35 Hebrew lacks you will say

11 Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you (A)to wake from sleep. (B)For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed. 12 (C)The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us (D)cast off (E)the works of darkness and (F)put on the armor of light. 13 (G)Let us walk properly as in the daytime, (H)not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, (I)not in quarreling and jealousy. 14 But (J)put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, (K)to gratify its desires.

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12 My people (A)inquire of a piece of wood,
    and their walking staff gives them oracles.
For (B)a spirit of whoredom has led them astray,
    and they have left their God to play the whore.

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12 (A)They have lyre and harp,
    tambourine and flute and wine at their feasts,
(B)but they do not regard the deeds of the Lord,
    or see the work of his hands.

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Surely (A)oppression drives the wise into madness,
    and (B)a bribe corrupts the heart.

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32 He who commits adultery lacks sense;
    he who does it destroys himself.

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