David invited him to eat and drink in his presence and made him drunk, and in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.
Proverbs 20:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: And whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition WINE IS a mocker, strong drink a riotous brawler; and whoever errs or reels because of it is not wise. [Prov. 23:29, 30; Isa. 28:7; Hos. 4:11.] American Standard Version (1901) Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; And whosoever erreth thereby is not wise. Common English Bible Wine is a mocker; beer a carouser. Those it leads astray won’t become wise. Catholic Public Domain Version It is a luxurious thing, wine, and inebriation is tumultuous. Anyone who is delighted by this will not be wise. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Wine is a luxurious thing, and drunkenness riotous: whosoever is delighted therewith shell not be wise. |
David invited him to eat and drink in his presence and made him drunk, and in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.
Then Absalom commanded his servants, “Watch when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Do not be afraid; have I not myself commanded you? Be courageous and valiant.”
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine or for rulers to desire strong drink,
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.
Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger in the evening to be inflamed by wine,
Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine and valiant at mixing drink,
“Come,” they say, “let us get wine; let us fill ourselves with strong drink. And tomorrow will be like today, great beyond measure.”
On the day of our king the officials became sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with mockers.
“Drink no wine or strong drink, neither you nor your sons, when you enter the tent of meeting, that you may not die; it is a statute forever throughout your generations.
Moreover, wealth is treacherous; the arrogant do not endure. They open their throats wide as Sheol; like Death they never have enough. They gather all nations for themselves and collect all peoples as their own.
thieves, the greedy, drunkards, revilers, swindlers—none of these will inherit the kingdom of God.
envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. I am warning you, as I warned you before: those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,