Ephesians 5:18

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Summary

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

1 Timothy 5:23

Bible References

Be not

and shall begin to beat his fellow-servants, and shall eat and drink with the drunken;

But, if that servant should say in his heart, My lord is delaying to come, and shall begin to beat the manservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;

"But take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be weighed down with gluttony and drunkenness, and anxieties pertaining to life, and that day come upon you suddenly as a snare;

As in the day, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkenness, not in lewdness and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy;

but, as it is, I wrote not to keep company, if anyone, called a brother, be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner??ith such a one, not even to eat.

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the Kingdom of God.

for, in your eating, each one takes his own supper before others; and one is hungry, and another is drunken!

envyings, drunkenness, revelings, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, as I also said before, that those practicing such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God.

For those who sleep sleep at night, and those who are drunken are drunken at night.

Excess

"Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish; but within they are full from extortion and excess!

For the time past is sufficient to have wrought the will of the gentiles, having walked in wantonness, lusts, wine-bibbings, revelings, carousings, and impious idolatries;

But

If ye, then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?"

And others, mocking, said, "They have been filled with new wine!"

because he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit, and of faith; and a great multitude was added to the Lord.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

General references

Be no longer a drinker of water, but use a little wine because of your stomach and your frequent infirmities.