18 and said this: “O sirs, how exceedingly strong wine is! It causes all men who drink it to go astray. (WEB)
1 Esdras 3:18
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1 Esdras 3:23–24
23 But when they awake from their wine, they don’t remember what they have done. (WEB) 24 O sirs, isn’t wine the strongest, seeing that it forces people to do this?” And when he had said this, he stopped speaking. (WEB)
Sirach 31:28–30
28 Wine drunk in season and in moderation is joy of heart and gladness of soul: (WEB) 29 Wine drunk excessively is bitterness of soul, with provocation and conflict. (WEB) 30 Drunkenness increases the rage of a fool to his hurt. It diminishes strength and adds wounds. (WEB)
Proverbs 20:1–2
1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by them is not wise. 2 The terror of a king is like the roar of a lion; whoever provokes him forfeits his own life.
Testament of Judah 3:9–11
9 And the Lord rewarded me according to the imagination of my heart, inasmuch as I had no joy in her children. (T12) 10 And now, my children, I say unto you, be not drunk with wine; for wine turneth the mind away from, the truth, and inspires the passion of lust, and lea… (T12)
Psalms of Solomon 8:12–14
12 They left no sin undone, wherein they surpassed not the heathen. (PSS) 13 Therefore God mingled for them a spirit of wandering; And gave them to drink a cup of undiluted wine, that they might become drunken. (PSS) 14 He brought him that is from the end of the earth, that smiteth… (PSS)
Testament of Judah 3:28–30
28 Moreover, wine revealeth the mysteries of God and men, even as I also revealed the commandments of God and the mysteries of Jacob my father to the Canaanitish woman Bathshua, which God bade me not to reveal. (T12) 29 And wine is a cause both of war and confusion. (T12) 30 And no… (T12)
Testament of Issachar 2:6–8
6 Except my wife I have not known any woman. I never committed fornication by the uplifting of my eyes. (T12) 7 I drank not wine, to be led astray thereby; (T12) 8 I coveted not any desirable thing that was my neighbour's. (T12)
Isaiah 5:21–23
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight. 22 Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine and champions in mixing beer, 23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.
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