Proverbs 20:1
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
BSB
ASV
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; And whosoever erreth thereby is not wise.
KJV
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
"Wine is a luxurious thing, and drunkenness is tumultuous; whoever delights in these will not be wise." And elsewhere: "Wine and women make the wise to fall away and will reprove the sensible." You have a ready example in that Solomon, who fell away on …
“Wine” and “strong drink” are personified as themselves doing what they make men do. The latter (see Lev 10:9 note) is here, probably, the “palm-wine” of Syria.
Such men are made by wine. strong drink--made by spicing wine (compare Isa 5:11, 22); and it may include wine. raging--or boisterous as a drunkard. deceived--literally, "erring," or reeling.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Ephesians 5:18Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.
leads to
Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine and champions in mixing strong drink,
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He shall never take wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother’s womb.
Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Barnabas was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and faith, and a great number of people were brought to the Lord.
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Proverbs 31:4It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to crave strong drink,
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Blessed are you, O land whose king is a son of nobles, and whose princes feast at the proper time—for strength and not for drunkenness.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
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1 Corinthians 6:10nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.
leads to
But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler.…
and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
