Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat,
And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,
“But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap.
Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy.
Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine, and valiant men in mixing strong drink,
and begins to beat his fellow servants and eats and drinks with drunkards,
For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry. With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you;
“There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.
Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living.
and behold, joy and gladness, killing oxen and slaughtering sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine. “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
Woe to those who rise early in the morning, that they may run after strong drink, who tarry late into the evening as wine inflames them!
Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress; let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more.
The one who keeps the law is a son with understanding, but a companion of gluttons shames his father.
Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? Those who tarry long over wine; those who go to try mixed wine. Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly. In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder. Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart utter perverse things.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.
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