Proverbs 23:31 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³¹ Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³¹ Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, When it giveth his colour in the cup, When it moveth itself aright.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³¹ Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the wineglass, when it goes down smoothly.

American Standard Version (1901)

³¹ Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, When it sparkleth in the cup, When it goeth down smoothly:

Common English Bible

³¹ Don’t look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, going down smoothly.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³¹ Do not gaze into the wine when it turns gold, when its color shines in the glass. It enters pleasantly,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³¹ Look not upon the wine when it is yellow, when the colour thereof shineth in the glass: it goeth in pleasantly,

Proverbs 23:31 Cross References

2 Samuel 11:2

It happened, late one afternoon when David rose from his couch and was walking about on the roof of the king’s house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; the woman was very beautiful.

Job 33:1

“But now, hear my speech, O Job, and listen to all my words.

Psalm 119:37

Turn my eyes from looking at vanities; be gracious to me according to your word.

Proverbs 6:25

Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes,

Song of Solomon 7:9

and your kisses like the best wine that goes down smoothly, gliding over lips and teeth.

Mark 9:47

And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and to be thrown into hell,

Ephesians 5:18

Do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,

1 John 2:16

for all that is in the world—the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, the pride in riches—comes not from the Father but from the world.