Proverbs 20:1

Foolproof Instructions

¹ Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived by it is not wise. ² The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoever provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.

Wine is a Mocker

Beer

Proverbs 31:4

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:

Hosea 4:11

Lewdness and wine and new wine take away the heart.

Isaiah 28:7

But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are overwhelmed with wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

2 Samuel 11:13

And when David had called him, he ate and drank before him; and he made him drunk: and at evening he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house.

1 Corinthians 6:10

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

Galatians 5:21

Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like: of which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Ephesians 5:18

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

Genesis 9:21-23

And he drank the wine, and was drunken, and he was uncovered within his tent.

Genesis 19:31-36

And the first-born said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man on the earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth:

1 Samuel 25:36-38

And Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: Therefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

2 Samuel 13:28

Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, Smite Amnon; then kill him, fear not: have I not commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.

1 Kings 20:16-21

And they went out at noon. But Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him.

Proverbs 23:29-35

Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?

Isaiah 5:22

Woe to them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:

Isaiah 56:12

Come ye, say they, I will bring wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to-morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.

Hosea 7:5

In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.

Habakkuk 2:15-16

Woe to him that giveth his neighbor drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!