Proverbs 20:1

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

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Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

In Context

2The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provokes him to anger sins against his own soul.

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Cross References

Genesis 9:21And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.

Genesis 19:33And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

2 Samuel 11:13And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house.

1 Kings 20:16And they went out at noon. But Benhadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him.

Proverbs 23:29Who has woe? who has sorrow? who has contentions? who has babbling? who has wounds without cause? who has redness of eyes?

Proverbs 31:4It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:

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