Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Never rebuke a person when you have both been drinking. Don't hurt his feelings while he is having a good time. It's not the time to criticize anyone, or to ask him to pay back a debt. Contemporary English Version Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Fire trieth hard iron: so wine drunk to excess shall rebuke the hearts of the proud. Sirach 31:29Against him that is niggardly of his bread, the city will murmur, and the testimony of his niggardliness is true. Sirach 31:30 Challenge not them that love wine: for wine hath destroyed very many. Sirach 31:32 Wine taken with sobriety is equal life to men: if thou drink it moderately, thou shalt be sober. Sirach 31:33 What is his life, who is diminished with wine? Context Sirach 31…30Challenge not them that love wine: for wine hath destroyed very many. 31Fire trieth hard iron: so wine drunk to excess shall rebuke the hearts of the proud. 32Wine taken with sobriety is equal life to men: if thou drink it moderately, thou shalt be sober.… Cross References Sirach 31:29 Against him that is niggardly of his bread, the city will murmur, and the testimony of his niggardliness is true. Sirach 31:30 Challenge not them that love wine: for wine hath destroyed very many. Sirach 31:32 Wine taken with sobriety is equal life to men: if thou drink it moderately, thou shalt be sober. Sirach 31:33 What is his life, who is diminished with wine? |
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