The friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Be not among winebibbers, among riotous eaters of flesh.
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; and drowsiness clotheth with rags.
Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who contentions? Who complaining? Who wounds without cause? Who redness of eyes?
— They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to try mixed wine.
Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it sparkleth in the cup, and goeth down smoothly:
at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
It is not for kings, Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for rulers to say, Where is the strong drink?
— lest they drink and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the children of affliction.
Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto the bitter of soul:
Woe unto them that, rising early in the morning, run after strong drink; that linger till twilight, till wine inflameth them!
But take heed to yourselves lest possibly your hearts be laden with surfeiting and drinking and cares of life, and that day come upon you suddenly unawares;
As in the day, let us walk becomingly; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and lasciviousness, not in strife and emulation.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,
idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, disputes, schools of opinion,
envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these; as to which I tell you beforehand, even as I also have said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit God's kingdom.