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Proverbs 20:1

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¶ Wine [is] a mocker, strong drink [is] raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

Wine {H3196} is a mocker {H3887}, strong drink {H7941} is raging {H1993}: and whosoever is deceived {H7686} thereby is not wise {H2449}.

Wine is a mocker, strong liquor a rowdy; anyone led astray by it is unwise.

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; And whosoever erreth thereby is not wise.

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Cross-References

  • Hosea 4:11 (17 votes)

    Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

  • Ephesians 5:18 (16 votes)

    And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

  • Isaiah 28:7 (15 votes)

    But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble [in] judgment.

  • Proverbs 31:4 (14 votes)

    [It is] not for kings, O Lemuel, [it is] not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:

  • 1 Corinthians 6:10 (11 votes)

    Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

  • Galatians 5:21 (10 votes)

    Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

  • Habakkuk 2:15 (9 votes)

    ¶ Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to [him], and makest [him] drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!