Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Total abstinence » From intoxicating beverages
And now, watch now, and drink not wine and strong drink, and thou shalt not eat any thing unclean:
Not for kings, O Lemuel, not for kings to drink and for princes the desire of strong drink:
For he shall be great before the Lord, and wine and fermented liquor he should not drink; and with the Holy Spirit shall he be filled, even from his mother's womb.
And Jehovah will speak to Aaron, saying. Wine and strong drink thou shalt not drink, thou and thy sons with thee, in your going in to the tent of appointment; and ye shall not die: a law forever to your generations. And to separate between the holy and between the unholy, and between the unclean and between the clean:
From wine and strong drink he shall be separated; vinegar of wine and vinegar of strong drink he shall not drip and the steeping of grapes he shall not drink, and grapes fresh and dry, he shall not eat All the days of his consecration, from all which shall be made from the vine, of the wine, from the grape kernels, even to the skin, he shall not eat
And the messenger of Jehovah will say to Manoah, From all I said to the woman she shall watch. From all going forth from the vine of the wine she shall not eat, and wine and strong drink she shall not drink, and any thing unclean she shall not eat: all which I commanded she shall watch.
Giving to drink according to the edict; none compelling, for thus the king appointed to all the multitude of his house to do according to the desire of man and man.
Thou shalt not be with those drinking wine to excess, and with squanderers of flesh to them:
Thou shalt not look upon wine when it shall be red, when it shall give its eye in the cup, it will go about in uprightnesses. Its latter state it will bite as serpent, and sting as a viper.
And they will say, We shall not drink wine: for Jonadab, son of Rechab our father, commanded to us, saying, Ye shall not drink wine, ye and your sons even to forever. And ye shall not build a house, and ye shall not sow seed, and ye shall not plant a vineyard, and it shall not be, to you: for in tents shall ye dwell all your days, so that ye shall live many days upon the face of the earth where ye are strangers there. And we will hear to the voice of Jonadab son of Rechab our father, for all which he commanded us, not to drink wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, and our daughters;
The words of Jonadab son of Rechab who commanded his sons not to drink wine, were raised up; and they drank not even to this clay, for they heard the command of their father: and spake to you, rising early and speaking; and ye heard not to me.
Appetites » Restrained
Thou shalt not be with those drinking wine to excess, and with squanderers of flesh to them:
But I give my body a blow under the eyes, and reduce to bondage: lest having proclaimed to others, I myself be rejected.
And he said to his disciples, Therefore I say to you, Have no anxiety for your soul, what ye eat; nor for the body what ye put on.
And attend to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be loaded with dizziness, caused by excess, and drunkenness, and cares of life, and that day come upon you unexpectedly.
If thou shalt sit to eat with a ruler, understanding, thou shalt understand what is before thee. And put a knife to thy swallow if thou the possessor of a soul.
Thou didst find honey; eat thy sufficiency, lest thou shalt be satiated, and thou vomit it forth.
Company » Who not to have company with
And we proclaim to you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, for you to shrink from every brother walking disorderly, and not according to the doctrine which he received of us.
Every one passing by, and not remaining in the teaching of Christ, has not God. He remaining in the teaching of Christ, the same also has the Father and the Son. If there come any to you, and bring not this teaching, receive ye him not into the household, and to rejoice tell him not: For he telling him to rejoice, partakes of his evil works.
Thou shalt not be companion of the possessor of anger, and with the man of wrath thou shalt not go: Lest thou shalt learn his ways and take a snare to thy soul.
Thou shalt not be with those drinking wine to excess, and with squanderers of flesh to them: For the drunkard and the squanderer shall be dispossessed: and slumber shall clothe with rags.
Thou shalt not envy against men of evil, thou shalt not desire to be with them. For their heart will meditate destruction, and their lips will speak labor.
I wrote to you in the epistle not to mix together with fornicators. And not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or the rapacious, or idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. And now I wrote to you not to mix together, if any called a brother is a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or intoxicated, or rapacious; not to eat with such. read more.
For what to me also to judge them without? do ye yourselves judge them within And them without God judges. And take ye away evil from yourselves.
For what to me also to judge them without? do ye yourselves judge them within And them without God judges. And take ye away evil from yourselves.
If any teach otherwise, and come not up to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine according to devotion; He has been proud, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and disputes of words, of which is envy, strife, slanders, evil conjectures, Unprofitable occupations of men corrupted in mind, and deprived of the truth, thinking gain to be devotion: be separated from such.
Drunkenness » Drunks
Wine is mocking, strong drink is noisy: and every one going astray by it will not be wise.
Wo to those rising early in the morning, they will follow strong drink; remaining in the evening, wine will inflame them. And there was the harp and the lyre, the drum and the pipe, and the wine of their drinking's: but the work of Jehovah they will not look at, and the work of his hands they saw not
Thou shalt not be with those drinking wine to excess, and with squanderers of flesh to them: For the drunkard and the squanderer shall be dispossessed: and slumber shall clothe with rags.
For they sleeping sleep in the night; and they drunken are drunken in the night.
And these also went astray by wine, and by strong drink they erred; the priest and the prophet went astray by strong drink, they were swallowed up from wine, they erred from strong drink, they went astray in seeing, they wavered in judgment.
Drunkenness » Avoid those given to
Thou shalt not be with those drinking wine to excess, and with squanderers of flesh to them:
And now I wrote to you not to mix together, if any called a brother is a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or intoxicated, or rapacious; not to eat with such.
Greed/gluttony » Gluttons
Thou shalt not be with those drinking wine to excess, and with squanderers of flesh to them: For the drunkard and the squanderer shall be dispossessed: and slumber shall clothe with rags.
Laziness » What laziness does
Thou shalt not be with those drinking wine to excess, and with squanderers of flesh to them: For the drunkard and the squanderer shall be dispossessed: and slumber shall clothe with rags.
Sloth will cast a deep sleep; and the soul of sloth shall hunger.
By sloth the frame work will pine away; and by the letting down of the hands, the house will drop.
Poverty » Who will end up in poverty
He working his land shall be filled with bread: and he pursuing the vain shall be filled with poverty.
A man of poverty loving joy: he loving wine and oil shall not be rich.
Thou shalt not love sleep lest thou shalt be dispossessed: open wide thine eyes, being filled with bread.
He oppressing the poor one to increase for himself, he gave to the rich; also to want
A slothful hand makes poverty, and the hand of the active will make rich.
The soul of the slothful one desiring, and nothing: and the soul of the active shall be made fat
Thou shalt not be with those drinking wine to excess, and with squanderers of flesh to them: For the drunkard and the squanderer shall be dispossessed: and slumber shall clothe with rags.
I passed upon the field of the slothful man, and upon the vineyard of the man wanting heart; And behold, it came up all of it with thorns; brambles covered its face, and the wall of its stones was overthrown. And I shall see and set my heart: I looked, I took instruction. read more.
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down: And thy poverty came going about, and thy want as a man of shield.
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down: And thy poverty came going about, and thy want as a man of shield.
Temperance » In relation to food in relation to speech » Appetites to be restrained
Thou shalt not be with those drinking wine to excess, and with squanderers of flesh to them:
But I give my body a blow under the eyes, and reduce to bondage: lest having proclaimed to others, I myself be rejected.
And he said to his disciples, Therefore I say to you, Have no anxiety for your soul, what ye eat; nor for the body what ye put on.
And attend to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be loaded with dizziness, caused by excess, and drunkenness, and cares of life, and that day come upon you unexpectedly.
If thou shalt sit to eat with a ruler, understanding, thou shalt understand what is before thee. And put a knife to thy swallow if thou the possessor of a soul.
Thou didst find honey; eat thy sufficiency, lest thou shalt be satiated, and thou vomit it forth.