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Proverbs 23:21
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Proverbs 23:21
21For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
21For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to pouerty; and drousinesse shall cloath a man with ragges.
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 23:21
A person habitually given to drunkenness or excessive strong drink.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
One who indulges to excess in eating.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
A state of being poor: want, indigence, or scarcity of material means.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
drowsiness
Sleepiness or heaviness with sleep.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
To cover, invest, or surround with the condition or quality named.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study17He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.
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Open the full verse study19Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
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Open the full verse study15Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
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Open the full verse study11But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
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Open the full verse study20And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
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Open the full verse study21Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
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Open the full verse study9How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
10Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
11So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
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Open the full verse study10Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
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Open the full verse study5Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
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Open the full verse study30I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
31And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
32Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction.
33Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
34So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
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Open the full verse study1WOE to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
2Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.
3The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
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