strong drink
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1It is a luxurious thing, wine, and inebriation is tumultuous. Anyone who is delighted by this will not be wise.
18And do not choose to be inebriated by wine, for this is self-indulgence. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit,
29Who has woe? Whose father has woe? Who has quarrels? Who falls into pits? Who has wounds without cause? Who has watery eyes? 30Is it not those who linger over wine, and who strive to be drinking from their cups? 31Do not gaze into the wine when it turns gold, when its color shines in the glass. It enters pleasantly, 32but in the end, it will bite like a snake, and it will spread poison like a king of snakes. 33Your eyes will see women who are outsiders, and your heart will utter perversities. 34And you will be like someone sleeping in the middle of the sea, and like a pilot, fast asleep, who has lost his hold on the helm.
21It is good to refrain from eating meat and from drinking wine, and from anything by which your brother is offended, or led astray, or weakened.
23Do not continue to drink only water, but make use of a little wine, for the sake of your stomach and your frequent infirmities.
26And you shall buy with the same money whatever pleases you, either from the herds or from the sheep, and also wine and liquor, and all that your soul desires. And you shall eat in the sight of the Lord your God, and you shall feast: you and your household.
21envy, murder, inebriation, carousing, and similar things. About these things, I continue to preach to you, as I have preached to you: that those who act in this way shall not obtain the kingdom of God.
6Give strong drink to the grieving, and wine to those who are bitter in soul. 7Let them drink, and forget their needs, and remember their sorrow no more.
7Yet truly, these also have been ignorant due to wine, and they have gone astray due to inebriation. The priest and the prophet have been ignorant because of inebriation. They have been absorbed by wine. They have staggered in drunkenness. They have not known the One who sees. They have been ignorant of judgment.
4Not to kings, O Lamuel, not to kings give wine. For there are no secrets where drunkenness reigns. 5And perhaps they may drink and forget judgments, and alter the case of the sons of the poor. 6Give strong drink to the grieving, and wine to those who are bitter in soul. 7Let them drink, and forget their needs, and remember their sorrow no more.
22Woe to you who are powerful at drinking wine, who are strong men in contriving inebriation!
8Similarly, deacons must be chaste, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not pursuing tainted profit,
9Do you not know that the iniquitous will not possess the kingdom of God? Do not choose to wander astray. For neither fornicators, nor servants of idolatry, nor adulterers, 10nor the effeminate, nor males who sleep with males, nor thieves, nor the avaricious, nor the inebriated, nor slanderers, nor the rapacious shall possess the kingdom of God.
11Woe to you who rise up in the morning to pursue drunkenness, and to drink even until evening, so as to be inflamed with wine.
15Woe to anyone who gives a drink to a friend, releasing a drug and inebriating, so as to look upon their nakedness.
13For you, brothers, have been called to liberty. Only you must not make liberty into an occasion for the flesh, but instead, serve one another through the charity of the Spirit.