Proverbs 20:1

Modern King James Version

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whoever goes astray by it is not wise.

Cross References

2 Samuel 11:13

And when David had called him, he ate and drank before him. And he made him drunk. And at evening he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.

2 Samuel 13:28

And Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, And watch when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, Strike Amnon, you shall kill him. Do not fear. Have I not commanded you? Be courageous, and be brave.

Proverbs 23:20

Do not be among those who drink much wine, among gluttons for flesh for themselves,

Proverbs 31:4

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes to lust for strong drink;

Isaiah 28:7

But they also have sinned through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way. The priest and the prophet have sinned through drink; they are swallowed up by wine; they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

Isaiah 5:11

Woe to those who rise up early in the morning to go after strong drink; tarrying in the twilight while wine inflames them!

Isaiah 5:22

Woe to those mighty to drink wine, and brave men to mix strong drink;

Isaiah 56:12

They say, come, Let us take wine, and let us gulp strong drink; and tomorrow shall be like today, and much more abundant.

Hosea 4:11

Fornication and wine and new wine take away the heart.

Hosea 7:5

In the day of our king, the rulers have sickened themselves with the heat of wine. He stretches out his hand with scorners.

Leviticus 10:9

Do not drink wine nor strong drink, neither you nor your sons with you, when you go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest you die, a statute forever throughout your generations.

Habakkuk 2:5

And also wine indeed betrays a proud man, and he is not content. He widens his soul like Sheol, and he is like death, and is not satisfied, but gathers all nations to himself, and heaps to himself all the 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, murders, drunkennesses, revelings, and things like these; of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Ephesians 5:18

And do not be drunk with wine, in which is excess, but be filled with the Spirit,