Proverbs 23:31
Do not look at the wine when it is red, 1 when it sparkles in the cup 1 and goes down smoothly. 1
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In Context
30Those who linger over wine, 1 those who try the mixed wine. 1
32In the last it bites like a serpent 1 and it stings like an adder. 1
Cross References
2 Samuel 11:2So it came about one evening that David got up from his bed and walked on the roof of his palace. From there he happened to see a woman who was bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at.
Psalms 119:37Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things; 1 revive me in your ways. 1
Matthew 5:28But I say to you that everyone who looks on a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
1 John 2:16For everything that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the arrogance of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 23:30-35
Cautions against Intemperance. 29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? 30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. 31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. 32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. 33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. 34 Yea, thou… Read the whole commentary →