Ephesians 5:18

Modern English Version

Do not be drunk with wine, for that is reckless living. But be filled with the Spirit.

Cross References

Genesis 9:21

Then he drank some of the wine and became drunk, and lay uncovered in his tent.

Psalm 69:12

Those who sit in the gate speak against me, and I am the song of the drunkards.

Proverbs 20:1

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler; whoever is seduced by it is not wise.

Song of Solomon 1:4

Draw me after you, and we will run away. The king has brought me into his chamber. Let us shout with joy and rejoice in you; let us remember that your love is better than wine. Truly do the young women love you.

Song of Solomon 7:9

and your mouth like the best wine. It travels down smoothly for my beloved, gliding through the lips of those who fall asleep.

Isaiah 25:6

In this mountain the Lord of Hosts shall prepare for all people a lavish feast, a feast of aged wines, choice pieces full of marrow, and refined, aged wines.

Isaiah 5:22

Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink,

Isaiah 55:1

Ho! Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

Leviticus 10:9

Do not drink wine nor strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the tent of meeting, lest you die. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations,

Matthew 23:25

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You cleanse the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of extortion and greed.

Matthew 24:49

and begins to strike his fellow servants and eat and drink with the drunkards,

Luke 1:15

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

Luke 11:13

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?”

Luke 12:45

But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My master delays his coming,’ and begins to beat the house servants, both men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

Luke 21:34

“Take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts become burdened by excessiveness and drunkenness and anxieties of life, and that Day comes on you unexpectedly.

John 2:10

and he said to him, “Every man serves the good wine first, and after men have drunk freely, then the poor wine is served. But you have kept the good wine until now.”

Acts 11:24

For he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And many people were added to the Lord.

Romans 13:13

Let us behave properly, as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in immorality and wickedness, not in strife and envy.

1 Corinthians 11:21

For in eating, each one eats his own supper ahead of others. One goes hungry, and another becomes drunk.

1 Corinthians 5:11

But I have written to you not to keep company with any man who is called a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. Do not even eat with such a person.

1 Corinthians 6:10

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

Deuteronomy 21:20

They shall say to the elders of his city, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not listen to us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”

1 Thessalonians 5:7

For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night.

Titus 1:6

any man who is blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children who are not accused of being wild or unruly.