Proverbs 20:1 - Easy To Read Version

¹ Wine and beer make people lose control of themselves. They get loud and start to brag. They become drunk and do foolish things.

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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 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 11:13

Then David called Uriah {to come and see him}. Uriah ate and drank with David. David made Uriah drunk. But Uriah still did not go home. That evening, Uriah went to sleep with the king’s servants {outside the king’s door}.

2 Samuel 13:28

Then Absalom gave this command to his servants, “Watch Amnon. When he is drunk and feeling good from the wine, I will give you the command. You must attack Amnon and kill him. Don’t be afraid of being punished. After all, you will only be obeying my command. Now, be strong and brave.”

Proverbs 23:20

Don’t be friends with people who drink too much wine and eat too much food.

Proverbs 31:4

Lemuel, it is not wise for kings to drink wine. It is not wise for rulers to want beer.

Isaiah 28:7

But now those leaders are drunk. The priests and prophets are all drunk with wine and beer. They stumble and fall down. The prophets are drunk when they see their dreams. The judges are drunk when they make their decisions.

Isaiah 5:11

You people rise early in the morning and go looking for beer to drink. You stay awake late at night, becoming drunk with wine.

Isaiah 5:22

Those people are famous for drinking wine. They are champions at mixing drinks.

Isaiah 56:12

They come and say,\par “I will drink some wine.\par I will drink some beer.\par I will do the same thing tomorrow.\par Only, I will drink even more.”\par

Hosea 4:11

“Sexual sins, strong drink, and new wine will ruin a person’s ability to think straight.

Hosea 7:5

On Our King’s Day,\par \{they make the fire hotter\}\par \{they give their drinking parties.\}\par The leaders become sick from the heat of wine.\par So the kings join hands with people\par that laugh at God.\par

Leviticus 10:9

“You and your sons must not drink wine or beer when you come into the Meeting Tent. {If you drink those things,} then you will die! This law continues forever through your generations.

Habakkuk 2:5

\{God said,\} “Wine can trick a person. In the same way, a strong man’s pride can fool him. But he will not find peace. He is like death—he always wants more and more. And, like death, he will never be satisfied. He will continue defeating other nations. He will continue to make those people his prisoners.

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.

Ephesians 5:18

Don’t be drunk with wine. That will ruin (destroy) you spiritually. But be filled with the Spirit. {\cf2\super [39]}