After he drank some of the wine, he became drunk, took off his clothes, and lay naked in his tent.

Come on, let's get our father drunk, so that we can sleep with him and have children by him."

The next day the older daughter said to her sister, "I slept with him last night; now let's get him drunk again tonight, and you sleep with him. Then each of us will have a child by our father."

They are to say to them, 'Our son is stubborn and rebellious and refuses to obey us; he wastes money and is a drunkard.'

They talk about me in the streets, and drunkards make up songs about me.

Drinking too much makes you loud and foolish. It's stupid to get drunk.

Don't associate with people who drink too much wine or stuff themselves with food.

Drunkards and gluttons will be reduced to poverty. If all you do is eat and sleep, you will soon be wearing rags.

Show me people who drink too much, who have to try out fancy drinks, and I will show you people who are miserable and sorry for themselves, always causing trouble and always complaining. Their eyes are bloodshot, and they have bruises that could have been avoided.

Don't let wine tempt you, even though it is rich red, and it sparkles in the cup, and it goes down smoothly.

Weird sights will appear before your eyes, and you will not be able to think or speak clearly.

"I must have been hit," you will say; "I must have been beaten up, but I don't remember it. Why can't I wake up? I need another drink."

You are doomed! You get up early in the morning to start drinking, and you spend long evenings getting drunk.

and so you will be carried away as prisoners. Your leaders will starve to death, and the common people will die of thirst.

and he will begin to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards.

But if that servant says to himself that his master is taking a long time to come back and if he begins to beat the other servants, both the men and the women, and eats and drinks and gets drunk,

"Be careful not to let yourselves become occupied with too much feasting and drinking and with the worries of this life, or that Day may suddenly catch you

Let us conduct ourselves properly, as people who live in the light of day---no orgies or drunkenness, no immorality or indecency, no fighting or jealousy.

What I meant was that you should not associate with a person who calls himself a believer but is immoral or greedy or worships idols or is a slanderer or a drunkard or a thief. Don't even sit down to eat with such a person.

or who steal or are greedy or are drunkards or who slander others or are thieves---none of these will possess God's Kingdom.

For as you eat, you each go ahead with your own meal, so that some are hungry while others get drunk.

they are envious, get drunk, have orgies, and do other things like these. I warn you now as I have before: those who do these things will not possess the Kingdom of God.

It is at night when people sleep; it is at night when they get drunk.

"How terrible for you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees! You hypocrites! You clean the outside of your cup and plate, while the inside is full of what you have gotten by violence and selfishness.

You have spent enough time in the past doing what the heathen like to do. Your lives were spent in indecency, lust, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and the disgusting worship of idols.

And now the heathen are surprised when you do not join them in the same wild and reckless living, and so they insult you.

Your constant love is better than life itself, and so I will praise you.

My soul will feast and be satisfied, and I will sing glad songs of praise to you.

Take me with you, and we'll run away; be my king and take me to your room. We will be happy together, drink deep, and lose ourselves in love. No wonder all women love you!

and your mouth like the finest wine. Then let the wine flow straight to my lover, flowing over his lips and teeth.

Here on Mount Zion the LORD Almighty will prepare a banquet for all the nations of the world---a banquet of the richest food and the finest wine.

The LORD says, "Come, everyone who is thirsty--- here is water! Come, you that have no money--- buy grain and eat! Come! Buy wine and milk--- it will cost you nothing!

The LORD Almighty will protect his people, and they will destroy their enemies. They will shout in battle like drunk men and will shed the blood of their enemies; it will flow like the blood of a sacrifice poured on the altar from a bowl.

How good and beautiful the land will be! The young people will grow strong on its grain and wine.

As bad as you are, you know how to give good things to your children. How much more, then, will the Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!"

But others made fun of the believers, saying, "These people are drunk!"

These people are not drunk, as you suppose; it is only nine o'clock in the morning.

'This is what I will do in the last days, God says: I will pour out my Spirit on everyone. Your sons and daughters will proclaim my message; your young men will see visions, and your old men will have dreams.

Barnabas was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and faith, and many people were brought to the Lord.

But the Spirit produces love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

And those who belong to Christ Jesus have put to death their human nature with all its passions and desires.