Proverbs 23:21

Easy To Read Version

People who drink too much and eat too much become poor. All they do is eat, drink, sleep, and soon they have nothing.

Cross References

Proverbs 18:9

A person that does sloppy work is almost as bad as a person that destroys things.

Proverbs 19:15

Laziness brings sleepiness. Trying to hide \{a problem\} brings more problems. {\cf2\super [27]}

Proverbs 21:17

If having fun is the most important thing to a person, then that person will become poor. If that person loves wine and food, then he will never be rich.

Ecclesiastes 10:18

If a person is too lazy to work,\par his house will begin to leak,\par and the roof will fall in.\par

Joel 1:5

Drunks, wake up and cry!\par All of you people that drink wine, cry.\par Why? Because your sweet wine is finished.\par You won’t get another taste of that wine.\par

Matthew 11:19

The Son of Man {\cf2\super [142]} came eating \{like other people\} and drinking wine, and people say, ‘Look at him! He eats too much and drinks too much wine. He is a friend of tax collectors {\cf2\super [143]} and other bad people.’ But wisdom is shown to be right by the things it does.”

1 Corinthians 5:11

I am writing to tell you that the person you must not associate with is this: any person that calls himself a brother in Christ but sins sexually, or is greedy, or worships idols, or talks bad to people, or gets drunk, or cheats people. Don’t even eat with a person like that.

Galatians 5:21

having envy, being drunk, having wild and wasteful parties, and doing other things like this. I warn you now like I warned you before: The people who do these things will not be in God’s kingdom.

Deuteronomy 21:20

They must say to the leaders of the town: ‘Our son is stubborn and refuses to obey. He doesn’t do anything we tell him to do. He eats and he drinks too much.’

Philippians 3:19

The way these people live is leading them to destruction. They don’t serve God. Those people live only to please themselves. They do shameful things, and they are proud of those things. They think only about earthly things.