Ephesians 5:18

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Ephesians 5:18

And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

Be not

Excess

Matthew 23:25

1 Peter 4:3

But

General references

Bible References

Be not

and drank of the wine and was drunk, and lay uncovered in the midst of his tent.

Come therefore, let us give our father wine to drink, and let us lie with him that we may save seed of our father."

and say unto the elders of the city, 'This, our son, is stubborn and disobedient and will not hearken unto our voice; he is a rioter and a drunkard.'

They that sit in the gate speak against me, and the drunkards make songs upon me.

Wine is a voluptuous thing, and drunkenness causes sedition; whoso delighteth therein, shall never be wise.

Keep no company with winebibbers and riotous eaters of flesh;

Woe unto them that rise up early to use themselves in drunkenness, and yet at night are more superfluous with wine.

and begin to smite his fellows: yea and to eat and to drink with the drunken:

But and if the evil servant shall say in his heart, 'My master will defer his coming,' and shall begin to smite the servants, and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken:

Take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be overcome with surfeiting and drunkenness, and cares of this world: and that, that day come on you unawares.

Let us walk honestly as it were in the daylight: not in eating and drinking: neither in chambering and wantonness: neither in strife and envying:

but now I write unto you that ye company not together. If any that is called a brother, be a fornicator, or covetous, or a worshipper of images, either a railer, either a drunkard, or an extortioner: with him that is such see that ye eat not.

neither thieves, neither the covetous, neither drunkards, neither cursed speakers, neither extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of God.

For every man beginneth afore to eat his own supper. And one is hungry, and another is drunken.

envying, murder, drunkenness, gluttony, and such like. Of the which I tell you before, as I have told you in time past, that they which commit such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

For they that sleep, sleep in the night: and they that be drunken, are drunken in the night.

Excess

Woe be to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye which make clean the outer side of the cup, and of the platter: but within they are full of bribery and excess.

For it is sufficient for us that we have spent the time that is past of the life, after the will of the gentiles; walking in wantonness, lusts, drunkenness, in eating, drinking, and in abominable idolatry.

But

For thy loving-kindness is better than life itself; my lips shall praise thee.

Draw thou me unto thee; we will run after thee. The king hath brought me into his privy chamber: We will be glad and rejoice in thee, we think more of thy love than of wine. They that be righteous love thee.

and thy throat like the best wine. This shall be pure and clear for my love, his lips and teeth shall have their pleasure.

Moreover, the LORD of Hosts shall once prepare a feast for all people upon the hill: A plenteous, costly, pleasant feast, of fat and well-fed beasts, of sweet and most pure things.

Come to the waters, all ye that be thirsty, and ye that have no money. Come buy, that ye may have to eat. Come buy wine and milk, without any money, or money worth.

The LORD of Hosts shall defend them, they shall consume and devour, and subdue them with sling stones. They shall drink and rage, as it were through wine. They shall be filled like the basins, and as the horns of the altar.

If ye then which are evil, can give good gifts unto your children: How much more shall the father of heaven give a holy spirit to them, that desire it of him?"

Others mocked them saying, "They are full of new wine."

For he was a good man, and full of the holy ghost and of faith. And much people was added unto the Lord.

But the fruit of the spirit is: love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, temperance.

General references

Wine is a voluptuous thing, and drunkenness causes sedition; whoso delighteth therein, shall never be wise.

that they may drink it, and forget their misery and adversity.

there shall no more wine be drunk with mirth, the beer shall be bitter to them that drink it;

Drink no longer water, but use a little wine, for thy stomach's sake, and thine often diseases.