Social Drinking

and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,

envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.

Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

and now, I did write to you not to keep company with <FI>him<Fi> , if any one, being named a brother, may be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner--with such a one not even to eat together;

not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,

`And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you,

for sufficient to us <FI>is<Fi> the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revellings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries,

In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free--stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;

but see, lest this privilege of yours may become a stumbling-block to the infirm,

not that which is coming into the mouth doth defile the man, but that which is coming forth from the mouth, this defileth the man.'

Ministrants--in like manner grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not given to filthy lucre,

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own, — read the full passage →

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

`For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and ye say, He hath a demon; — read the full passage →

And the third day a marriage happened in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there, — read the full passage →

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, the reign of God shall inherit.

and out of his mouth doth proceed a sharp sword, that with it he may smite the nations, and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, and he doth tread the press of the wine of the wrath and the anger of God the Almighty,

I exhort, then, first of all, there be made supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, for all men: — read the full passage →

And the third day a marriage happened in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there, — read the full passage →