Proverbs 23:21 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

²¹ for the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: And drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty, and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; And drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.

Common English Bible

²¹ because drunks and gluttons will be impoverished; their stupor will clothe them in rags.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ For those who waste time drinking, and who surrender themselves to symbols, will be consumed. And those who sleep will be clothed in rags.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ Because they that give themselves to drinking, and that club together shall be consumed; and drowsiness shall be clothed with rags.

Proverbs 23:21 Cross References

Proverbs 18:9

He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.

Proverbs 19:15

Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

Proverbs 21:17

He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

Ecclesiastes 10:18

By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.

Joel 1:5

Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

Matthew 11:19

The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.

1 Corinthians 5:11

But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one, no, not to eat.

1 Corinthians 6:10

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

Galatians 5:21

envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Deuteronomy 21:20

and they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.

Philippians 3:19

whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)