Thematic Bible: In excess


Thematic Bible



Whoredom, wine and drunkenness take the heart away. Verse ConceptsAlcoholIntoxicationEffect Of WineBeing Without Understanding

But in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these words, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone, Verse ConceptsHeart, HumanHuman EmotionSick Individuals

Where is woe? Where is sorrow? Where is strife? Where is brawling? Where are wounds without cause? Where be red eyes? Even among those that be ever at the wine, and seek excess.

Look not thou upon the wine, how red it is, and what a color it giveth in the glass. It goeth down softly; but at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth as an adder.

O Lemuel, give kings no wine, give kings and princes no strong drink; Lest they being drunken forget the law, and regard not the cause of the poor, and of all such as be in adversity.