But others mocking said, “They are filled with new wine.”
If, therefore, the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are out of your minds?
For these people are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day.
And Eli said to her, “How long will you go on being drunk? Put your wine away from you.”
Then Ephraim shall become like a mighty warrior, and their hearts shall be glad as with wine. Their children shall see it and be glad; their hearts shall rejoice in the Lord.
The Lord of hosts will protect them, and they shall devour, and tread down the sling stones, and they shall drink and roar as if drunk with wine, and be full like a bowl, drenched like the corners of the altar.
On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine, of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined.
and your mouth like the best wine. It goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding over lips and teeth.
Behold, my belly is like wine that has no vent; like new wineskins ready to burst.
And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,
For how great is his goodness, and how great his beauty! Grain shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the young women.
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