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.
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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.
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Ecclesiastes 10:16
Unhappy is the land whose king is a boy, and whose rulers are feasting in the morning.
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Ecclesiastes 10:18
When no work is done the roof goes in, and when the hands do nothing water comes into the house.
Ecclesiastes 10:19
A feast is for laughing, and wine makes glad the heart; but by the one and the other money is wasted.
Ecclesiastes 10:20
Say not a curse against the king, even in your thoughts; and even secretly say not a curse against the man of wealth; because a bird of the air will take the voice, and that which has wings will give news of it.
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Proverbs 31:3
Do not give your strength to women, or your ways to that which is the destruction of kings.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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Proverbs 23:29
Who says, Oh! who says, Ah! who has violent arguments, who has grief, who has wounds without cause, whose eyes are dark?
Proverbs 23:30
Those who are seated late over the wine: those who go looking for mixed wine.
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:
Proverbs 23:32
In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake.
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!
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.
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:
Romans 13:13
With right behaviour as in the day; not in pleasure-making and drinking, not in bad company and unclean behaviour, not in fighting and envy.
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!
Habakkuk 2:15
A curse on him who gives his neighbour the wine of his wrath, making him overcome with strong drink from the cup of his passion, so that you may be a witness of their shame!
1 Corinthians 6:10
Or is a thief, or the worse for drink, or makes use of strong language, or takes by force what is not his, will have any part in the kingdom of God.
Deuteronomy 21:20
And say to them, This son of ours is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, he will not give attention to us; he gives himself up to pleasure and strong drink.
Proverbs 23:20
Do not be among those who give themselves to wine-drinking, or among those who make themselves full with meat:
Nahum 1:10
For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.
Ephesians 5:18
And do not take overmuch wine by which one may be overcome, but be full of the Spirit;
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1 Thessalonians 5:7
For those who are sleeping do so in the night; and those who are the worse for drink are so in the night;
Acts 2:14
But Peter, getting up, with the eleven, said in a loud voice, O men of Judaea, and all you who are living in Jerusalem, take note of this and give ear to my words.
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Judges 10:4
And he had thirty sons, who went on thirty young asses; and they had thirty towns in the land of Gilead, which are named Havvoth-Jair to this day.
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Esther 10:2
And all his acts of power and his great strength and the full story of the high place which the king gave Mordecai, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Media and Persia?
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Esther 10:3
For Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews and respected by the body of his countrymen; working for the good of his people, and saying words of peace to all his seed.
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Ecclesiastes 2:24
There is nothing better for a man than taking meat and drink, and having delight in his work. This again I saw was from the hand of God.
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Ecclesiastes 3:12
I am certain that there is nothing better for a man than to be glad, and to do good while life is in him.
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Isaiah 3:4
And I will make children their chiefs, and foolish ones will have rule over them.
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Jeremiah 21:12
O family of David, this is what the Lord has said: Do what is right in the morning, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away, or my wrath will go out like fire, burning so that no one may put it out, because of the evil of your doings.
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