Bible verse

Proverbs 23:20

Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat.

Proverbs 23:20 · BSB

Proverbs 23:20 in context

The verses around it, from Proverbs 23.

16 My inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.

17 Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always continue in the fear of the LORD.

18 For surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

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.

22 Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

23 Invest in truth and never sell it—in wisdom and instruction and understanding.

24 The father of a righteous man will greatly rejoice, and he who fathers a wise son will delight in him.

Read all of Proverbs 23

Proverbs 23:20 in other translations

KJV

Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:

ASV

Be not among winebibbers, Among gluttonous eaters of flesh:

ERV

Be not among winebibbers; among gluttonous eaters of flesh:

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