Hosea 4:11
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
11 prostitution.
The Idolatry of Israel
Wine and new wine
take away the understanding.(A)
Proverbs 20:1
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
20 Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler,
and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.(A)
Isaiah 28:7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
7 These also reel with wine
and stagger with strong drink;
the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink;
they are confused with wine;
they stagger with strong drink;
they err in vision;
they stumble in giving judgment.(A)
Luke 21:34
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Exhortation to Watch
34 “Be on guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life and that day does not catch you unexpectedly,(A)
Read full chapter
Proverbs 23:27-35
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
27 For a prostitute is a deep pit;
an adulteress[a] is a narrow well.(A)
28 She lies in wait like a robber
and increases the number of the faithless.(B)
29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow?
Who has strife? Who has complaining?
Who has wounds without cause?
Who has redness of eyes?(C)
30 Those who linger late over wine,
those who keep trying mixed wines.(D)
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.
33 Your eyes will see strange things,
and your mind utter perverse things.(E)
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 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 will seek another drink.”(F)
Romans 13:11-14
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
An Urgent Appeal
11 Besides this, you know what time it is, how it is already the moment for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we became believers;(A) 12 the night is far gone; the day is near. Let us then throw off[a] the works of darkness and put on the armor of light;(B) 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.(C) 14 Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.(D)
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 13.12 Other ancient authorities read lay aside
Hosea 4:12
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
12 My people consult a piece of wood,
and their divining rod gives them oracles.
For a spirit of prostitution has led them astray,
and they have prostituted themselves, forsaking their God.(A)
Isaiah 5:12
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
12 whose feasts consist of lyre and harp,
tambourine and flute and wine,
but who do not regard the deeds of the Lord
or see the work of his hands!(A)
Ecclesiastes 7:7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
7 Surely oppression makes the wise foolish,
and a bribe corrupts the heart.(A)
Proverbs 6:32
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
32 But he who commits adultery has no sense;
he who does it destroys himself.(A)
New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.