Ephesians 5:18
Good News Translation
Do not get drunk with wine, which will only ruin you; instead, be filled with the Spirit.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit,

Contemporary English Version
Don't destroy yourself by getting drunk, but let the Spirit fill your life.

New American Bible
And do not get drunk on wine, in which lies debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is luxury: but be ye filled with the Holy Spirit,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And be not drunk with wine, wherein is luxury: but be ye filled with the Holy Spirit,

be not.

Genesis 9:21 And drinking of the wine was made drunk, and was uncovered in his tent.

Genesis 19:32-35 Come, let us make him drunk with wine, and let us lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. . . .

Deuteronomy 21:20 And shall say to them: This our son is rebellious and stubborn, he slighteth hearing our admonitions, he giveth himself to revelling, and to debauchery and banquetings:

Psalm 69:12 They that sat in the gate spoke against me: and they that drank wine made me their song.

Proverbs 20:1 Wine is a luxurious thing, and drunkenness riotous: whosoever is delighted therewith, shall not be wise.

Proverbs 23:20,21,29-35 Be not in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in their revellings, who contribute flesh to eat: . . .

Isaiah 5:11-13,22 Woe to you that rise up early in the morning to follow drunkenness, and to drink in the evening, to be inflamed with wine. . . .

Matthew 24:49 And shall begin to strike his fellow servants and shall eat and drink with drunkards:

Luke 12:45 But if that servant shall say in his heart: My Lord is long a coming; and shall begin to strike the men-servants and maid-servants, and to eat and to drink and be drunk:

Luke 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of this life: and that day come upon you suddenly.

Romans 13:13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day: not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and impurities, not in contention and envy.

1 Corinthians 5:11 But now I have written to you, not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator or covetous or a server of idols or a railer or a drunkard or an extortioner: with such a one, not so much as to eat.

1 Corinthians 6:10 Nor the effeminate nor liers with mankind nor thieves nor covetous nor drunkards nor railers nor extortioners shall possess the kingdom of God.

1 Corinthians 11:21 For every one taketh before his own supper to eat. And one indeed is hungry and another is drunk.

Galatians 5:21 Envies, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like. Of the which I foretell you, as I have foretold to you, that they who do such things shall not obtain the kingdom of God.

1 Thessalonians 5:7 For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that are drunk, are drunk in the night.

excess.

Matthew 23:25 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you make clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within you are full of rapine and uncleanness.

1 Peter 4:3,4 For the time past is sufficient to have fulfilled the will of the Gentiles, for them who have walked in riotousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings and unlawful worshipping of idols. . . .

but.

Psalm 63:3-5 For thy mercy is better than lives: thee my lips will praise. . . .

Songs 1:4 I am black but beautiful, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Cedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

Songs 7:9 Thy throat like the best wine, worthy for my beloved to drink, and for his lips and his teeth to ruminate.

Isaiah 25:6 And the Lord of hosts shall make unto all people in this mountain, a feast of fat things, a feast of wine, of fat things full of marrow, of wine purified from the lees.

Isaiah 55:1 All you that thirst, come to the waters: and you that have no money make haste, buy, and eat: come ye, buy wine and milk without money, and without any price.

Zechariah 9:15-17 The Lord of hosts will protect them: and they shall devour, and subdue with the stones of the sling: and drinking they shall be inebriated as it were with wine, and they shall be filled as bowls, and as the horns of the altar. . . .

Luke 11:13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father from heaven give the good Spirit to them that ask him?

Acts 2:13-18 But others mocking, said: These men are full of new wine. . . .

Acts 11:24 For he was a good man and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith. And a great multitude was added to the Lord.

Galatians 5:22-25 But the fruit of the Spirit is, charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity, . . .

Context
Children of Light
17Wherefore, become not unwise: but understanding what is the will of God. 18And be not drunk with wine, wherein is luxury: but be ye filled with the Holy Spirit, 19Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual canticles, singing and making melody in your hearts to the Lord:…
Cross References
Leviticus 10:9
You shall not drink wine nor any thing that may make drunk, thou nor thy sons, when you enter into the tabernacle of the testimony, lest you die. Because it is an everlasting precept; through your generations:

Proverbs 20:1
Wine is a luxurious thing, and drunkenness riotous: whosoever is delighted therewith, shall not be wise.

Proverbs 23:20
Be not in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in their revellings, who contribute flesh to eat:

Proverbs 23:30
Surely they that pass their time in wine, and study to drink off their cups.

Proverbs 23:31
Look not upon the wine when it is yellow, when the colour thereof shineth in the glass: it goeth in pleasantly,

Proverbs 23:32
But in the end, it will bite like a snake, and will spread abroad poison like a basilisk.

Luke 1:15
For he shall be great before the Lord and shall drink no wine nor strong drink: and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.

John 2:10
And saith to him: Every man at first setteth forth good wine, and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse. But thou hast kept the good wine until now.

Romans 13:13
Let us walk honestly, as in the day: not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and impurities, not in contention and envy.

1 Corinthians 5:11
But now I have written to you, not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator or covetous or a server of idols or a railer or a drunkard or an extortioner: with such a one, not so much as to eat.

1 Thessalonians 5:7
For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that are drunk, are drunk in the night.

Titus 1:6
If any be without crime, the husband of one wife. having faithful children, not accused of riot or unruly.

1 Peter 4:4
Wherein they think it strange that you run not with them into the same confusion of riotousness: speaking evil of you.

Ephesians 5:17
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