Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Total abstinence » From intoxicating beverages
Do not drink any wine or beer, or eat any forbidden food.
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It is not for kings, O Lemuel; it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes to desire strong drink.
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He will be great in the eyes of God. He will not drink wine or strong drink and he will be full of Holy Spirit from the time of his birth.
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Jehovah said to Aaron: Never drink beer or wine when you or your sons enter the sacred tent. If you do, you will die right there! This is a long lasting law from generation to generation. You must learn the difference (distinction) between what is holy and what is not holy and between the clean and the unclean.
Nazirites must never drink wine, liquor, vinegar made from wine or liquor, or any kind of grape juice. They must never eat fresh grapes or raisins. As long as they are Nazirites they must never eat anything that comes from a grapevine, not even grape seeds or skins.
Jehovah's angel answered: Your wife must be sure to do everything I told her. She must not eat anything that comes from the grapevine. She must not drink any wine or beer, or eat any forbidden food. She must do everything I told her to do.
The drinking was in keeping with the law. No one was forced: for the king gave orders to all the chief servants of his house to do as was pleasing to every man.
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Do not associate with drunkards or gluttons.
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Do not look on the wine when it is red, when it shines in the cup, when it goes down smoothly. In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like a viper.
But they answered: No! The ancestor of our clan, Jonadab son of Rechab, made a rule that we must obey. He said: 'Do not ever drink wine or build houses or plant crops and vineyards. Instead, you must always live in tents and move from place to place. If you obey this command, you will live a long time.' We have obeyed all the instructions that Jonadab gave us. We never drink wine, and neither do our wives, our sons, or our daughters.
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Jonadab, Rechab's son, ordered his descendants not to drink wine. This order has been carried out. His descendants have not drunk any wine to this day, because they have obeyed their ancestor's order. I have spoken to you again and again, but you have refused to listen to me.
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Adder » A venomous serpent
Dan will be a snake on a road, a viper on a path that bites a horse's heels so that its rider falls backwards.
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You will step on lions and cobras. You will trample underfoot young lions and snakes.
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Their poison is like the poison of a snake. It is like a deaf cobra that stops its ear.
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They make their tongues as sharp as a snake's fang. Their lips hide the venom of poisonous snakes.
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In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like a viper.
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Asp » Injurious effects of wine
In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like a viper.
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Their wine is the poison of serpents, and the cruel venom of asps (cobras).
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or adder Asp » (venom of), of injurious effects of wine
In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like a viper.
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Their wine is the poison of serpents, and the cruel venom of asps (cobras).
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Chastity » Drunkenness destructive to
Do not look on the wine when it is red, when it shines in the cup, when it goes down smoothly. In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like a viper. Your eyes will see strange things and your heart (and mind) will utter perverse things.
Drunkenness » What alcohol does
Do not look on the wine when it is red, when it shines in the cup, when it goes down smoothly. In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like a viper.
These also stagger from wine and reel from beer. Priests and prophets stagger from beer and are befuddled with wine. They reel from beer. They stagger when seeing visions. They stumble when rendering decisions.
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Prostitution, wine and new wine take away the understanding.
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Reptiles » Mentioned in scripture » Adder or asp
You will step on lions and cobras. You will trample underfoot young lions and snakes.
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Their poison is like the poison of a snake. It is like a deaf cobra that stops its ear.
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In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like a viper.
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Serpent » Venom of
Do not look on the wine when it is red, when it shines in the cup, when it goes down smoothly. In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like a viper.
Their poison is like the poison of a snake. It is like a deaf cobra that stops its ear.
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They make their tongues as sharp as a snake's fang. Their lips hide the venom of poisonous snakes.
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They will be wasted by famine, and consumed by plague and bitter destruction. I will send teeth of wild animals on them, with the venom of crawling things (reptiles) of the dust.
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Their wine is the poison of serpents, and the cruel venom of asps (cobras).
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He will suck the poison of serpents. The fangs of an adder (cobra) will kill him.
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But Paul shook the snake off into the fire without being harmed at all. The people were waiting for him to swell up or suddenly drop dead. They waited a long time and saw nothing unusual happen to him. They changed their minds and said he was a god.
Serpents » Illustrative » (poisonous bite of,) of baneful effects of wine
In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like a viper.
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For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty and drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.
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Wine » Fermented
Nazirites must never drink wine, liquor, vinegar made from wine or liquor, or any kind of grape juice. They must never eat fresh grapes or raisins.
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You have not eaten bread. You have not drunk wine or strong drink. This in order that you might know that I am Jehovah your God.
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Never drink beer or wine when you or your sons enter the sacred tent. If you do, you will die right there! This is a long lasting law from generation to generation.
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Do not look on the wine when it is red, when it shines in the cup, when it goes down smoothly. In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like a viper.
No man puts new wine into old wineskins. The skins will burst and the wine and the skins will be wasted. New wine has to be put into new wine skins.
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As the wine offering with the first lamb, pour out at the altar two pints of wine.
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Use the silver to buy whatever you want: cattle, sheep, goats, wine, liquor-whatever you choose. Then you and your family will eat and enjoy yourselves there in the presence of Jehovah your God.
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Wine » In excess » Leads to remorse
Do not look on the wine when it is red, when it shines in the cup, when it goes down smoothly. In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like a viper.