Proverbs 23:20
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20 Do not be among winebibbers
or among gluttonous eaters of meat,(A)
Ephesians 5:18
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18 Do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,(A)
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Luke 21:34
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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)
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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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Isaiah 5:22
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22 Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine
and valiant at mixing drink,(A)
Matthew 24:49
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49 and begins to beat his fellow slaves and eats and drinks with drunkards,
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1 Peter 4:3-4
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3 You have already spent enough time in doing what the gentiles like to do, living in debauchery, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry.(A) 4 They are surprised that you no longer join them in the same excesses of dissipation, and so they blaspheme.[a](B)
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- 4.4 Or they malign you
Luke 16:19
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The Rich Man and Lazarus
19 “There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.
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Luke 15:13
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13 A few days later the younger son gathered all he had and traveled to a distant region, and there he squandered his wealth in dissolute living.
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Isaiah 22:13
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13 but instead there was joy and festivity,
killing oxen and slaughtering sheep,
eating meat and drinking wine.
“Let us eat and drink,
for tomorrow we die.”(A)
Isaiah 5:11
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11 Woe to those who rise early in the morning
in pursuit of strong drink,
who linger in the evening
to be inflamed by wine,(A)
Proverbs 31:6-7
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6 Give strong drink to one who is perishing
and wine to those in bitter distress;
7 let them drink and forget their poverty
and remember their misery no more.
Proverbs 28:7
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7 Those who keep the law are wise children,
but companions of gluttons shame their parents.(A)
Proverbs 23:29-35
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29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow?
Who has strife? Who has complaining?
Who has wounds without cause?
Who has redness of eyes?(A)
30 Those who linger late over wine,
those who keep trying mixed wines.(B)
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.(C)
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.[a]
35 “They struck me,” you will say,[b] “but I was not hurt;
they beat me, but I did not feel it.
When shall I awake?
I will seek another drink.”(D)
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)
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