18 When their liquor is gone, they turn to prostitution; their rulers dearly love disgrace.
Hosea 4:18
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Sirach 19:1–3
1 A worker who is a drunkard will not become rich. He who despises small things will fall little by little. (WEB) 2 Wine and women will make men of understanding go astray. He who joins with prostitutes is reckless. (WEB) 3 Decay and worms will have him as their heritage. A reck… (WEB)
Hosea 4:10–12
10 They will eat but not be satisfied; they will be promiscuous but not multiply. For they have stopped obeying the LORD. 11 Promiscuity, wine, and new wine take away understanding. 12 My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spir…
Ephesians 4:18–20
18 They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts. 19 Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every ki…
Psalms 106:38–40
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Sirach 26:7–9
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1 Esdras 3:22–24
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Habakkuk 2:14–16
14 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea. 15 Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin until they are drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness! 16 You will be filled with sh…
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