Proverbs 23:20
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Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat.
In other translations
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat.
Hebrew words
Word by word from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew reads right to left.
Related verses
- Ephesians 5:18And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.
- Luke 21:34And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.
- Isaiah 5:22Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine and champions in mixing strong drink,
- Romans 13:13Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
- Isaiah 22:13And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.But look, there is joy and gladness, butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”
- 1 Peter 4:3-43 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: 4 Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:3 For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry. 4 Because of this, they consider it strange of you not to plunge with them into the same flood of reckless indiscretion, and they heap abuse on you.
- Isaiah 5:11Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine.
- Luke 15:13And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.After a few days, the younger son got everything together and journeyed to a distant country, where he squandered his wealth in wild living.
- Matthew 24:49And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;And he begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards.
- Proverbs 28:7Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.A discerning son keeps the law, but a companion of gluttons disgraces his father.
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