12 (A)“Come,” they say, “let me get wine;
    let us fill ourselves with strong drink;
(B)and tomorrow will be like this day,
    great beyond measure.”

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He (A)says in his heart, “I shall not be moved;
    throughout all generations I (B)shall not meet adversity.”

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22 Woe to those who are (A)heroes at drinking wine,
    and valiant men in mixing strong drink,

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32 What do I gain if, humanly speaking, (A)I fought with beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, (B)“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

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19 And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have ample goods laid up (A)for many years; relax, (B)eat, drink, be merry.”’ 20 But God said to him, (C)‘Fool! (D)This night (E)your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, (F)whose will they be?’

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

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27 Do not boast about tomorrow,
    (A)for you do not know what a day may bring.

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35 “They (A)struck me,” you will say,[a] “but I was not hurt;
    they beat me, but I did not feel it.
When shall I awake?
    I (B)must have another drink.”

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:35 Hebrew lacks you will say

For an overseer,[a] (A)as God's steward, must be above reproach. He must not (B)be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent (C)or greedy for gain,

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Footnotes

  1. Titus 1:7 Or bishop; Greek episkopos

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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45 But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master (A)is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and (B)get drunk, 46 the master of that servant will come (C)on a day when he does not expect him and (D)at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and put him with the unfaithful.

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(A)O you who put far away the day of disaster
    (B)and bring near the seat of violence?

“Woe to those (C)who lie on (D)beds of ivory
    (E)and stretch themselves out on their couches,
and eat lambs from the flock
    (F)and calves from the midst of the stall,
(G)who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp
    and like David (H)invent for themselves instruments of music,
(I)who drink wine in bowls
    and (J)anoint themselves with the finest oils,
    but are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph!

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18 Then they said, (A)“Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, (B)for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. (C)Come, let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.”

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(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.
For all tables are full of filthy vomit,
    with no space left.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 28:7 Or confused by

13 and behold, joy and gladness,
    killing oxen and slaughtering sheep,
    eating flesh and drinking wine.
(A)“Let us eat and drink,
    for tomorrow we die.”
14 The Lord of hosts (B)has revealed himself in my ears:
“Surely (C)this iniquity will not be atoned for you (D)until you die,”
    says the Lord God of hosts.

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11 Woe to those who (A)rise early in the morning,
    that they may run after strong drink,
who tarry late into the evening
    as wine inflames them!

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49 and begins to beat his fellow servants[a] and eats and drinks with (A)drunkards, 50 the master of that servant will come (B)on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know 51 and will cut him in pieces and put him with the hypocrites. In that place (C)there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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  1. Matthew 24:49 Or bondservants

(A)It is not for kings, O Lemuel,
    it is not for kings (B)to drink wine,
    or for rulers to take (C)strong drink,
lest they drink and forget what has been decreed
    and (D)pervert the rights of all the afflicted.

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