Deuteronomy 21:20
Hebrew Text— Deuteronomy 21:20They shall tell the elders of his city, “This our son is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”
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Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.
Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.
Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.
Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:
It is not for kings, Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for princes to say, ‘Where is strong drink?’
Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at mixing strong drink;
For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.
They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.
For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.
For these things’ sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
“You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or you will die. This shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.
Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.
Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, “It’s not wrong,” is a partner with a destroyer.
I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.
They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.
You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.
For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.
Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing until the morning light.
One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.
Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death.
He who loves pleasure will be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil won’t be rich.
Those who stay long at the wine; those who go to seek out mixed wine.
The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.
Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. An arrogant man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.
Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;
“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.
nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.
Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can’t inherit God’s Kingdom; neither does the perishable inherit imperishable.
There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent.
he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of fermented drink, neither shall he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried.
When David had called him, he ate and drank before him; and he made him drunk. At evening, he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but didn’t go down to his house.
On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcass, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,
The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
for whom Yahweh loves, he corrects, even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.
But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”
He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during the harvest is a son who causes shame.
A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who causes shame, and shall have a part in the inheritance among the brothers.
Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.
Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?
“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.
Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.
Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink, who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!
making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this.”
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”
But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My lord delays his coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,
envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.
Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,
whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?
The heart of one who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.
He who refuses correction despises his own soul, but he who listens to reproof gets understanding.
Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?
He who robs his father and drives away his mother, is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.
Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.
Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.
Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.