On Life and Conduct

20 (A)Wine is a mocker, (B)intoxicating drink a brawler,
And whoever [a]is intoxicated by it is not wise.

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  1. Proverbs 20:1 Lit errs

31 Do not look at wine when it is red,
When it [a]sparkles in the cup,
When it (A)goes down smoothly;
32 In the end it (B)bites like a snake
And stings like a (C)viper.
33 Your eyes will see strange things
And your [b]mind will (D)say perverse things.
34 And you will be like one who lies down in the [c]middle of the sea,
Or like one who lies down on the top of a [d]mast.
35 “They (E)struck me, but I did not become [e]ill;
They beat me, but I did not know it.
When will I awake?
I will (F)seek [f]another drink.”

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  1. Proverbs 23:31 Lit gives its eye
  2. Proverbs 23:33 Lit heart
  3. Proverbs 23:34 Lit heart
  4. Proverbs 23:34 Or lookout
  5. Proverbs 23:35 I.e., from the effect of wounds
  6. Proverbs 23:35 Lit it yet again

13 Let’s [a](A)behave properly as in the day, (B)not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and debauchery, not in strife and jealousy.

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  1. Romans 13:13 Lit walk

11 But [a]actually, I [b]wrote to you not to associate [c]with any so-called (A)brother if he is a sexually immoral person, or a greedy person, or (B)an idolater, or is verbally abusive, or habitually drunk, or a swindler—not even to eat with such a person.

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  1. 1 Corinthians 5:11 Lit now
  2. 1 Corinthians 5:11 Or have written
  3. 1 Corinthians 5:11 Lit together if anyone called a brother is

For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who are drunk, (A)get drunk at night.

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