Proverbs 23:20
Good News Translation
Don't associate with people who drink too much wine or stuff themselves with food.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not be among winebibbers, or among gluttonous eaters of meat;

Contemporary English Version
Don't be a heavy drinker or stuff yourself with food.

New American Bible
Do not join with wine bibbers, nor with those who glut themselves on meat.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Be not in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in their revellings, who contribute flesh to eat:

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Be not in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in their revellings, who contribute flesh to eat:

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Proverbs 23:29-35 Who hath woe? whose father hath woe? who hath contentions? who falls into pits? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? . . .

Proverbs 20:1 Wine is a luxurious thing, and drunkenness riotous: whosoever is delighted therewith, shall not be wise.

Proverbs 28:7 He that keepeth the law, is a wise son: but he that feedeth gluttons, shameth his father.

Proverbs 31:6,7 Give strong drink to them that are sad; and wine to them that are grieved in mind: . . .

Isaiah 5:11,22 Woe to you that rise up early in the morning to follow drunkenness, and to drink in the evening, to be inflamed with wine. . . .

Isaiah 22:13 And behold joy and gladness, killing calves, and slaying rams, eating flesh, and drinking wine: Let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.

Matthew 24:49 And shall begin to strike his fellow servants and shall eat and drink with drunkards:

Luke 15:13 And not many days after, the younger son, gathering all together, went abroad into a far country: and there wasted his substance, living riotously.

Luke 16:19 There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and feasted sumptuously every day.

Luke 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of this life: and that day come upon you suddenly.

Romans 13:13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day: not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and impurities, not in contention and envy.

Ephesians 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is luxury: but be ye filled with the Holy Spirit,

1 Peter 4:3,4 For the time past is sufficient to have fulfilled the will of the Gentiles, for them who have walked in riotousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings and unlawful worshipping of idols. . . .

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Context
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19Hear thou, my son, and be wise: and guide thy mind in the way. 20Be not in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in their revellings, who contribute flesh to eat:21Because they that give themselves to drinking, and that club together, shall be consumed: and drowsiness shall be clothed with rags.…
Cross References
Matthew 24:49
And shall begin to strike his fellow servants and shall eat and drink with drunkards:

Luke 21:34
And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of this life: and that day come upon you suddenly.

Romans 13:13
Let us walk honestly, as in the day: not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and impurities, not in contention and envy.

Ephesians 5:18
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is luxury: but be ye filled with the Holy Spirit,

Deuteronomy 21:20
And shall say to them: This our son is rebellious and stubborn, he slighteth hearing our admonitions, he giveth himself to revelling, and to debauchery and banquetings:

Proverbs 20:1
Wine is a luxurious thing, and drunkenness riotous: whosoever is delighted therewith, shall not be wise.

Proverbs 23:2
And put a knife to thy throat, if it be so that thou have thy soul in thy own power.

Proverbs 23:29
Who hath woe? whose father hath woe? who hath contentions? who falls into pits? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?

Proverbs 23:30
Surely they that pass their time in wine, and study to drink off their cups.

Proverbs 28:7
He that keepeth the law, is a wise son: but he that feedeth gluttons, shameth his father.

Isaiah 5:22
Woe to you that are mighty to drink wine, and stout men at drunkenness.

Proverbs 23:19
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