Proverbs 31:4
It is not for kings, Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for princes to say, ‘Where is strong drink?’
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Proverbs 31:4
It is not for kings, Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for princes to say, ‘Where is strong drink?’
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Proverbs 31:5
lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.
Isaiah 28:7
They 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.
Proverbs 20:1
Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
Ephesians 5:18
Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,
Proverbs 23:31
Don’t look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.
Ecclesiastes 10:17
Happy are you, land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
Isaiah 5:11
Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink, who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!
Isaiah 56:12
“Come,” they say, “I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be as today, great beyond measure.”
Hosea 4:11
Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.
1 Kings 16:9
His servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him. Now he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah;
Luke 21:34
“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.
Isaiah 5:23
who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!
1 Kings 20:12
When Ben Hadad heard this message as he was drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions, he said to his servants, “Prepare to attack!” So they prepared to attack the city.
1 Kings 20:16
They 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.
Esther 1:10
On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcass, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,
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Leviticus 10:9
“You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or you will die. This shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.
Leviticus 10:10
You are to make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean.
Leviticus 10:11
You are to teach the children of Israel all the statutes which Yahweh has spoken to them by Moses.”
Proverbs 31:6
Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish, and wine to the bitter in soul.
Proverbs 31:7
Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
Ezekiel 44:21
None of the priests shall drink wine when they enter into the inner court.
Titus 1:7
For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;
1 Timothy 3:3
not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;
1 Timothy 5:23
Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities.
Titus 2:3
and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good,
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Numbers 6:3
he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of fermented drink, neither shall he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried.
Luke 1:15
For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.
Jeremiah 35:6
But they said, “We will drink no wine; for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying, ‘You shall drink no wine, neither you nor your children, forever.
Deuteronomy 29:6
You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.
Judges 13:4
Now therefore please beware and drink no wine nor strong drink, and don’t eat any unclean thing;
Daniel 1:8
But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king’s delicacies, nor with the wine which he drank. Therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.
Daniel 10:3
I ate no pleasant food. No meat or wine came into my mouth. I didn’t anoint myself at all, until three whole weeks were fulfilled.
Matthew 11:18
For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’
Romans 14:21
It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.
1 Corinthians 8:13
Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.
Judges 13:14
She may not eat of anything that comes of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing. Let her observe all that I commanded her.”
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Proverbs 31:1
The words of king Lemuel—the revelation which his mother taught him:
Proverbs 31:2
“Oh, my son! Oh, son of my womb! Oh, son of my vows!
Proverbs 31:3
Don’t give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.
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Habakkuk 2:5
Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous: an arrogant man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol; he is like death and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations and heaps to himself all peoples.
Isaiah 28:1
Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!
Proverbs 21:17
He who loves pleasure will be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil won’t be rich.
Isaiah 5:22
Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at mixing strong drink;
Hosea 7:5
On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers.
Ecclesiastes 2:3
I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.
Amos 6:6
who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best oils, but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
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Daniel 5:1
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
Daniel 5:2
Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded that the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem be brought to him, that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink from them.
Daniel 5:3
Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of God’s house which was at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, drank from them.
Daniel 5:4
They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of bronze, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
Daniel 5:30
In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.
Mark 6:21
Then a convenient day came when Herod on his birthday made a supper for his nobles, the high officers, and the chief men of Galilee.
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Genesis 41:33
“Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.
Exodus 18:21
Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
Deuteronomy 1:13
Take wise men of understanding who are respected among your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.”
Deuteronomy 16:18
You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
Deuteronomy 16:19
You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.
Proverbs 24:23
These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality in judgment is not good.
Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.
Psalms 82:2
“How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?” Selah.
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Deuteronomy 24:17
You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;
Proverbs 29:27
A dishonest man detests the righteous, and the upright in their ways detest the wicked.
Ecclesiastes 3:16
Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.
Luke 16:10
He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.
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