Is it okay to drink alcohol or get drunk?
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Intoxicating beverages recommended

Proverbs 31:6-7 View context

Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.

Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.


1 Timothy 5:23 View context

Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.


Psalms 104:15 View context

And wine [that] maketh glad the heart of man, [and] oil to make [his] face to shine, and bread [which] strengtheneth man's heart.

Intoxicating beverages discountenanced

Proverbs 20:1 View context

Wine [is] a mocker, strong drink [is] raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.


Proverbs 23:31-32 View context

Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, [when] it moveth itself aright.

At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

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