Proverbs 20:1

Wine and strong drink lead people astray, making them mockers and brawlers. Being controlled by alcohol is foolish.

Cross-references · 17

• Eph 5:18Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,
• Hos 4:11Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.
• Isa 28:7They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.
• Prov 31:4It is not for kings, Lemuel; it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes to say, ‘Where is strong drink?’
• 1 Cor 6:10nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.
• Gal 5:21envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.
• Hab 2:15–16“Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!
• 2 Sam 11:13When David had called him, he ate and drink before him; and he made him drunk. At evening, he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but didn’t go down to his house.
• Isa 5:22Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at mixing strong drink;
• Prov 23:29–35Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?
• Isa 56:12“Come,” say they, “I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be as today, great beyond measure.”
• Gen 19:31–36The firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth.
• Hos 7:5On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers.
• 1 Sam 25:36–38Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing, until the morning light.
• 2 Sam 13:28Absalom commanded his servants, saying, “Mark now, when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine; and when I tell you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Haven’t I commanded you? Be courageous, and be valiant!”
• Gen 9:21–23He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent.
• 1 Kgs 20:16–21They went out at noon. But Ben Hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings who helped him.

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