THEOSISProverbs 23:20Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Be not in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in their revellings, who contribute flesh to eat:
אַל־תְּהִ֥י בְסֹֽבְאֵי־יָ֑יִן בְּזֹלֲלֵ֖י בָשָׂ֣ר לָֽמוֹ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Luke 21:34And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of this life: and that day come upon you suddenly.
- Eph 5:18And be not drunk with wine, wherein is luxury: but be ye filled with the Holy Spirit,
- Rom 13:13Let us walk honestly, as in the day: not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and impurities, not in contention and envy.
- Isa 5:22Woe to you that are mighty to drink wine, and stout men at drunkenness.
- Matt 24:49And shall begin to strike his fellow servants and shall eat and drink with drunkards:
- Luke 16:19There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and feasted sumptuously every day.
- Luke 15:13And not many days after, the younger son, gathering all together, went abroad into a far country: and there wasted his substance, living riotously.
- Prov 28:7He that keepeth the law, is a wise son: but he that feedeth gluttons, shameth his father.