A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a difficult time.
Don’t associate with those who drink too much wine or with those who gorge themselves on meat.
For the drunkard and the glutton will become poor, and grogginess will clothe them in rags.
Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has conflicts? Who has complaints? Who has wounds for no reason? Who has red eyes?
Those who linger over wine; those who go looking for mixed wine.
Don’t gaze at wine because it is red, because it gleams in the cup and goes down smoothly.
In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.
It is not for kings, Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine or for rulers to desire beer.
Otherwise, he will drink, forget what is decreed, and pervert justice for all the oppressed.
Give beer to one who is dying and wine to one whose life is bitter.
Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of beer, who linger into the evening, inflamed by wine.
“Be on your guard, so that your minds are not dulled from carousing, drunkenness, and worries of life, or that day will come on you unexpectedly
Let us walk with decency, as in the daytime: not in carousing and drunkenness; not in sexual impurity and promiscuity; not in quarreling and jealousy.
Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, moral impurity, promiscuity,
idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions,
envy, drunkenness, carousing, and anything similar. I am warning you about these things — as I warned you before — that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.