15 And what you yourself hate, do to no man. Don’t drink wine to drunkenness, and don’t let drunkenness go with you on your way. (WEB)
Tobit 4:15
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Sirach 31:30–31
30 Drunkenness increases the rage of a fool to his hurt. It diminishes strength and adds wounds. (WEB) 31 Don’t rebuke your neighbor at a banquet of wine. Don’t despise him in his mirth. Don’t speak a word of reproach to him. Don’t distress him by making demands of him. (WEB)
Sirach 31:24–26
24 The city will murmur at him who is a stingy with his food. The testimony of his stinginess will be accurate. (WEB) 25 Don’t show yourself valiant in wine, for wine has destroyed many. (WEB) 26 The furnace tests the temper of steel by dipping; so does wine test hearts in the quar… (WEB)
Proverbs 23:19–21
19 Listen, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right course. 20 Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat. 21 For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.
Didache 2:1
1a And the second commandment of the Teaching; You shall not commit murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not commit pederasty, you shall not commit fornication, you shall not steal, you shall not practice magic, you shall not practice witchcraft, you… (DID)
Sirach 10:5–7
5 A man’s prosperity is in the Lord’s hand. He will lay his honor upon the person of the scribe. (WEB) 6 Don’t be angry with your neighbor for every wrong. Do nothing by works of violence. (WEB) 7 Pride is hateful before the Lord and men. Arrogance is abhorrent in the judgment o… (WEB)
Testament of Judah 3:26–28
26 For if in your gladness the fear of God departeth, then drunkenness ariseth and shamelessness stealeth in. (T12) 27 But if ye would live soberly do not touch wine at all, lest ye sin in words of outrage, and in fightings and slanders, and transgressions of the commandm… (T12)
Sirach 9:8–10
8 Turn your eye away from a beautiful woman, and don’t gaze at another’s beauty. Many have been led astray by the beauty of a woman; and with this, passion is kindled like a fire. (WEB) 9 Don’t dine at all with a woman who has a husband, or revel with her at wine, lest… (WEB) 10 … (WEB)
Sirach 33:29–31
29 Set him to work, as is fit for him. If he doesn’t obey, make his fetters heavy. (WEB) 30 Don’t be excessive toward any. Do nothing unjust. (WEB) 31 If you have a slave, treat him like yourself, because you have bought him with blood. (WEB)
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