Ecclesiastes 2:3
"I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life."
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- Proverbs 20:1
"Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 1:17
"And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 31:4
"It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:"
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 6:12
"For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?"
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 12:13
"Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man."
Read in chapter → - Ephesians 5:18
"And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;"
Read in chapter → - Genesis 47:9
"And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage."
Read in chapter → - Job 14:14
"If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 23:29
"Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?"
Read in chapter → - 2 Corinthians 6:15
"And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?"
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