"Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise."
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Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon; then kill him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.
And they went out at noon. But Benhadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him.
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:
And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.
In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
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!
And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house.
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.
Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
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.
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:
Wine makes men foolish, and strong drink makes men come to blows; and whoever comes into error through these is not wise.
Wine is a scorner, strong drink is raging; and whoso erreth thereby is not wise.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived by it is not wise.
Wine is a mocker, and beer is a brawler; Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
Wine `is' a scorner -- strong drink `is' noisy, And any going astray in it is not wise.