THEOSISProverbs 23:21Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Because they that give themselves to drinking, and that club together, shall be consumed: and drowsiness shall be clothed with rags.
כִּי־סֹבֵ֣א וְ֭זוֹלֵל יִוָּרֵ֑שׁ וּ֝קְרָעִ֗ים תַּלְבִּ֥ישׁ נוּמָֽה׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 21:17He that loveth good cheer, shall be in want: he that loveth wine, and fat things, shall not be rich.
- Prov 6:9How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
- Prov 6:11And want shall come upon thee, as a traveller, and poverty as a man armed. But if thou be diligent, thy harvest shall come as a fountain, and want shall flee far from thee.
- 1 Cor 5:11But now I have written to you, not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator or covetous or a server of idols or a railer or a drunkard or an extortioner: with such a one, not so much as to eat.
- Gal 5:21Envies, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like. Of the which I foretell you, as I have foretold to you, that they who do such things shall not obtain the kingdom of God.
- Prov 19:15Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
- Deut 21:20And shall say to them: This our son is rebellious and stubborn, he slighteth hearing our admonitions, he giveth himself to revelling, and to debauchery and banquetings:
- Phil 3:19Whose end is destruction: whose God is their belly: and whose glory is in their shame: who mind earthly things.