1 Samuel 25:36

New International Version

³⁶When Abigail went to Nabal, he was in the house holding a banquet like that of a king. He was in high^(A) spirits and very drunk.^(B) So she told^(C) him nothing at all until daybreak.

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Ecclesiastes 8:15

New International Version

¹⁵So I commend the enjoyment of life^(A), because there is nothing better for a person under the sun than to eat and drink^(B) and be glad.^(C) Then joy will accompany them in their toil all the days of the life God has given them under the sun.

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Isaiah 5:22

New International Version

²²Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine^(A)
and champions at mixing drinks,^(B)

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Isaiah 28:7-8

New International Version

⁷And these also stagger^(A) from wine^(B)
    and reel^(C) from beer:
Priests^(D) and prophets^(E) stagger from beer
    and are befuddled with wine;
they reel from beer,
    they stagger when seeing visions,^(F)
    they stumble when rendering decisions.
⁸All the tables are covered with vomit^(G)
    and there is not a spot without filth.

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Isaiah 56:12

New International Version

¹²“Come,” each one cries, “let me get wine!^(A)
Let us drink our fill of beer!
And tomorrow will be like today,
or even far better.”^(B)

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Luke 17:26-29

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²⁶“Just as it was in the days of Noah,^(A) so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. ²⁷People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

²⁸“It was the same in the days of Lot.^(B) People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. ²⁹But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.

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