²⁰ Do not be among those who give themselves to wine-drinking, or among those who make themselves full with meat:

¹⁸ And do not take overmuch wine by which one may be overcome, but be full of the Spirit;

¹³ With right behaviour as in the day; not in pleasure-making and drinking, not in bad company and unclean behaviour, not in fighting and envy.

²² Cursed are those who are strong to take wine, and great in making mixed drinks!

³⁴ But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net:

¹¹ Cursed are those who get up early in the morning to give themselves up to strong drink; who keep on drinking far into the night till they are heated with wine!

⁷ He who keeps the law is a wise son, but he who keeps company with feasters puts shame on his father.

⁴⁹ And is cruel to the other servants, taking his pleasure with those who are overcome with wine;

¹ Wine makes men foolish, and strong drink makes men come to blows; and whoever comes into error through these is not wise.

³ Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images;

⁴ And they are wondering that you no longer go with them in this violent wasting of life, and are saying evil things of you:

¹⁹ Now there was a certain man of great wealth, who was dressed in fair clothing of purple and delicate linen, and was shining and glad every day.

¹³ And not long after, the younger son got together everything which was his and took a journey into a far-away country, and there all his money went in foolish living.

¹³ But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes.

⁶ Give strong drink to him who is near to destruction, and wine to him whose soul is bitter:

⁷ Let him have drink, and his need will go from his mind, and the memory of his trouble will be gone.

²⁹ Who says, Oh! who says, Ah! who has violent arguments, who has grief, who has wounds without cause, whose eyes are dark?

³⁰ Those who are seated late over the wine: those who go looking for mixed wine.

³¹ Keep your eyes from looking on the wine when it is red, when its colour is bright in the cup, when it goes smoothly down:

³² In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake.

³³ Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things.

³⁴ Yes, you will be like him who takes his rest on the sea, or on the top of a sail-support.

³⁵ They have overcome me, you will say, and I have no pain; they gave me blows without my feeling them: when will I be awake from my wine? I will go after it again.