Proverbs 31:4
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to take wine, or for rulers to say, Where is strong drink?
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Proverbs 31:4
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to take wine, or for rulers to say, Where is strong drink?
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Proverbs 31:5
For fear that through drinking they may come to have no respect for the law, wrongly judging the cause of those who are in trouble.
Isaiah 28:7
And further, these are uncertain through wine, and have gone out of the right way through strong drink: the priest and the prophet are uncertain through strong drink, they are overcome by wine, they have gone out of the way through strong drink; their vision is false, they go wrong in their decisions.
Proverbs 20:1
Wine makes men foolish, and strong drink makes men come to blows; and whoever comes into error through these is not wise.
Ephesians 5:18
And do not take overmuch wine by which one may be overcome, but be full of the Spirit;
Proverbs 23:31
Keep your eyes from looking on the wine when it is red, when its colour is bright in the cup, when it goes smoothly down:
Ecclesiastes 10:17
Happy is the land whose ruler is of noble birth, and whose chiefs take food at the right time, for strength and not for feasting.
Isaiah 5:11
Cursed are those who get up early in the morning to give themselves up to strong drink; who keep on drinking far into the night till they are heated with wine!
Isaiah 56:12
Come, they say, I will get wine, and we will take strong drink in full measure; and tomorrow will be like today, full of pleasure.
Hosea 4:11
Loose ways and new wine take away wisdom.
1 Kings 16:9
And his servant Zimri, captain of half his war-carriages, made secret designs against him: now he was in Tirzah, drinking hard in the house of Arza, controller of the king's house in Tirzah.
Luke 21:34
But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net:
Isaiah 5:23
Who for a reward give support to the cause of the sinner, and who take away the righteousness of the upright from him.
1 Kings 20:12
Now when this answer was given to Ben-hadad, he was drinking with the kings in the tents, and he said to his men, Take up your positions. So they put themselves in position for attacking the town.
1 Kings 20:16
And in the middle of the day they went out. But Ben-hadad was drinking in the tents with the thirty-two kings who were helping him.
Esther 1:10
On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was glad with wine, he gave orders to Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven unsexed servants who were waiting before Ahasuerus the king,
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Leviticus 10:9
Take no wine, or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the Tent of meeting, that it may not be the cause of death to you; this is an order for ever through all your generations.
Leviticus 10:10
And make a division between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean;
Leviticus 10:11
Teaching the children of Israel all the laws which the Lord has given them by the hand of Moses.
Proverbs 31:6
Give strong drink to him who is near to destruction, and wine to him whose soul is bitter:
Proverbs 31:7
Let him have drink, and his need will go from his mind, and the memory of his trouble will be gone.
Ezekiel 44:21
The priests are not to take wine when they go into the inner square.
Titus 1:7
For it is necessary for a Bishop to be a man of virtue, as God's servant; not pushing himself forward, not quickly moved to wrath or blows, not desiring profit for himself;
1 Timothy 3:3
Not quickly moved to wrath or blows, but gentle; no fighter, no lover of money;
1 Timothy 5:23
Do not take only water as your drink, but take a little wine for the good of your stomach, and because you are frequently ill.
Titus 2:3
That old women are to be self-respecting in behaviour, not saying evil of others, not given to taking much wine, teachers of that which is good,
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Numbers 6:3
He is to keep himself from wine and strong drink, and take no mixed wine or strong drink or any drink made from grapes, or any grapes, green or dry.
Luke 1:15
For he will be great in the eyes of the Lord; he will not take wine or strong drink; and he will be full of the Spirit of God from his birth.
Jeremiah 35:6
But they said, We will take no wine: for Jonadab, the son of Rechab our father, gave us orders, saying, You are to take no wine, you or your sons, for ever:
Deuteronomy 29:6
You have had no bread, or wine, or strong drink: so that you might see that I am the Lord your God.
Judges 13:4
Now then take care to have no wine or strong drink and to take no unclean thing for food;
Daniel 1:8
And Daniel had come to the decision that he would not make himself unclean with the king's food or wine; so he made a request to the captain of the unsexed servants that he might not make himself unclean.
Daniel 10:3
I had no pleasing food, no meat or wine came into my mouth, and I put no oil on my body till three full weeks were ended.
Matthew 11:18
For John came, taking no food or drink, and they say, He has an evil spirit.
Romans 14:21
It is better not to take meat or wine or to do anything which might be a cause of trouble to your brother.
1 Corinthians 8:13
For this reason, if food is a cause of trouble to my brother, I will give up taking meat for ever, so that I may not be a cause of trouble to my brother.
Judges 13:14
She is to have nothing which comes from the vine for her food, and let her take no wine or strong drink or anything which is unclean; let her take care to do all I have given her orders to do.
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Proverbs 31:1
The words of Lemuel, king of Massa: the teaching which he had from his mother.
Proverbs 31:2
What am I to say to you, O Lemuel, my oldest son? and what, O son of my body? and what, O son of my oaths?
Proverbs 31:3
Do not give your strength to women, or your ways to that which is the destruction of kings.
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Habakkuk 2:5
A curse on the cruel and false one! the man full of pride, who never has enough; who makes his desires wide as the underworld! he is like death; he is never full, but he makes all nations come to him, getting all peoples together to himself.
Isaiah 28:1
Ho! crown of pride of those who are given up to wine in Ephraim, and the dead flower of his glory which is on the head of those who are overcome by strong drink!
Proverbs 21:17
The lover of pleasure will be a poor man: the lover of wine and oil will not get wealth.
Isaiah 5:22
Cursed are those who are strong to take wine, and great in making mixed drinks!
Hosea 7:5
On the day of our king, the rulers made him ill with the heat of wine; his hand was stretched out with the men of pride.
Ecclesiastes 2:3
I made a search with my heart to give pleasure to my flesh with wine, still guiding my heart with wisdom, and to go after foolish things, so that I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under the heavens all the days of their life.
Amos 6:6
Drinking wine in basins, rubbing themselves with the best oils; but they have no grief for the destruction of Joseph.
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Daniel 5:1
Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, drinking wine before the thousand.
Daniel 5:2
Belshazzar, while he was overcome with wine, gave orders for them to put before him the gold and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar, his father, had taken from the Temple in Jerusalem; so that the king and his lords, his wives and his other women, might take their drink from them.
Daniel 5:3
Then they took in the gold and silver vessels which had been in the Temple of the house of God at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his other women, took wine from them.
Daniel 5:4
They took their wine and gave praise to the gods of gold and silver, of brass and iron and wood and stone.
Daniel 5:30
That very night Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldaeans, was put to death.
Mark 6:21
And the chance came when Herod on his birthday gave a feast to his lords, and the high captains, and the chief men of Galilee;
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Genesis 41:33
And now let Pharaoh make search for a man of wisdom and good sense, and put him in authority over the land of Egypt.
Exodus 18:21
But for the rest, take from among the people able men, such as have the fear of God, true men hating profits wrongly made; and put such men over them, to be captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens;
Deuteronomy 1:13
Take for yourselves men who are wise, far-seeing, and respected among you, from your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
Deuteronomy 16:18
You are to make judges and overseers in all your towns which the Lord your God gives you, for every tribe: and they are to be upright men, judging the people in righteousness.
Deuteronomy 16:19
You are not to be moved in your judging by a man's position, you are not to take rewards; for rewards make the eyes of the wise man blind, and the decisions of the upright false.
Proverbs 24:23
These are more sayings of the wise: To have respect for a person's position when judging is not good.
Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to keep a thing secret: but the glory of kings is to have it searched out.
Psalms 82:2
How long will you go on judging falsely, having respect for the persons of evil-doers? (Selah.)
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Deuteronomy 24:17
Be upright in judging the cause of the man from a strange country and of him who has no father; do not take a widow's clothing on account of a debt:
Proverbs 29:27
An evil man is disgusting to the upright, and he who is upright is disgusting to evil-doers.
Ecclesiastes 3:16
And again, I saw under the sun, in the place of the judges, that evil was there; and in the place of righteousness, that evil was there.
Luke 16:10
He who is true in a little, is true in much; he who is false in small things, is false in great.
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