Proverbs 20:1 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹ Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; And whosoever erreth thereby is not wise.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: And whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ 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)

¹ Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; And whosoever erreth thereby is not wise.

Common English Bible

¹ Wine is a mocker; beer a carouser. Those it leads astray won’t become wise.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ 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

¹ Wine is a luxurious thing, and drunkenness riotous: whosoever is delighted therewith shell not be wise.

Proverbs 20:1 Cross References

2 Samuel 11:13

And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house.

2 Samuel 13:28

And Absalom commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now, when Amnon's heart is merry with wine; and when I say unto you, smite Amnon, then kill him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.

Proverbs 23:20

Be not among winebibbers; Among gluttonous eaters of flesh:

Proverbs 31:4

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; Nor for princes to say, Where is strong drink?

Isaiah 28:7

But these also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are gone astray; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are gone astray through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgement.

Isaiah 5:11

Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that tarry late into the night, till wine inflame them!

Isaiah 5:22

Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:

Isaiah 56:12

Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, a day great beyond measure.

Hosea 4:11

Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the understanding.

Hosea 7:5

On the day of our king the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.

Leviticus 10:9

Drink no wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tent of meeting, that ye die not: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:

Habakkuk 2:5

Yea, moreover, wine is a treacherous dealer, a haughty man, and that keepeth not at home; who enlargeth his desire as hell, and he is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all peoples.

1 Corinthians 6:10

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

Galatians 5:21

envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that they which practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Ephesians 5:18

And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit;