What Does The Bible Say About?

Drunkenness

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Proverbs 20:1

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Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

Ephesians 5:18

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Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.

Galatians 5:19-21

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The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Luke 21:34

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But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.

Romans 13:13

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Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.

Galatians 5:21

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and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Isaiah 5:11

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Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine.

Proverbs 23:29-35

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Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes? Those who linger over wine, who go to taste mixed drinks. Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly. In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper. Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities. . . .

1 Timothy 5:23

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Stop drinking only water and use a little wine instead, because of your stomach and your frequent ailments.

Isaiah 5:22

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Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine and champions in mixing beer,

1 Peter 5:8

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Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

Genesis 9:21

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But when he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.

Isaiah 28:7

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These also stagger from wine and stumble from strong drink: Priests and prophets reel from strong drink and are befuddled by wine. They stumble because of strong drink, muddled in their visions and stumbling in their judgments.

Romans 14:21

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It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything to cause your brother to stumble.

Proverbs 23:21

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For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.

1 Corinthians 6:10

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nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.

Hosea 4:11

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Promiscuity, wine, and new wine take away understanding.

Proverbs 23:20

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Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20

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Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.

Matthew 24:49

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And he begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards.

Psalm 104:14-15

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He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth: wine that gladdens the heart of man, oil that makes his face to shine, and bread that sustains his heart.

Proverbs 23:31

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Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.

Luke 1:15

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for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He shall never take wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother’s womb.

Proverbs 23:20-21

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Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat. For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.

1 Peter 4:3

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For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.

1 Timothy 3:8

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Deacons likewise must be dignified, not double-tongued or given to much wine or greedy for money.

Matthew 11:19

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The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at this glutton and drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is vindicated by her actions.”

1 Thessalonians 5:7

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For those who sleep, sleep at night; and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.

1 Corinthians 5:11

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But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.

Ecclesiastes 9:7

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Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already approved your works:

Jeremiah 25:27

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“Then you are to tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Drink, get drunk, and vomit. Fall down and never get up again, because of the sword I will send among you.’

Proverbs 31:4

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It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to crave strong drink,

Titus 2:3

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Older women, likewise, are to be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers or addicted to much wine, but teachers of good.

Habakkuk 2:15

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Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin until they are drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!

Isaiah 19:14

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The LORD has poured into her a spirit of confusion. Egypt has been led astray in all she does, as a drunkard staggers through his own vomit.

Hebrews 10:26

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If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains,

Luke 12:45

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But suppose that servant says in his heart, ‘My master will be a long time in coming,’ and he begins to beat the menservants and maidservants, and to eat and drink and get drunk.

Proverbs 21:17

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He who loves pleasure will become poor; the one who loves wine and oil will never be rich.

Isaiah 24:9

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They no longer sing and drink wine; strong drink is bitter to those who consume it.

Leviticus 10:9

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“You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink when you enter the Tent of Meeting, or else you will die; this is a permanent statute for the generations to come.

Titus 2:11-12

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For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to everyone. It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

Isaiah 28:8

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For all their tables are covered with vomit; there is not a place without filth.

Joel 3:3

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They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.

Titus 1:7

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As God’s steward, an overseer must be above reproach—not self-absorbed, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not greedy for money.

1 Corinthians 10:31

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So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God.

Acts 2:13

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But others mocked them and said, “They are drunk on new wine!”

Isaiah 28:7-8

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These also stagger from wine and stumble from strong drink: Priests and prophets reel from strong drink and are befuddled by wine. They stumble because of strong drink, muddled in their visions and stumbling in their judgments. For all their tables are covered with vomit; there is not a place without filth.

Isaiah 5:11-12

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Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine. At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands.

Luke 1:37

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For no word from God will ever fail.”

Proverbs 23:32

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In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.

Amos 6:6

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You drink wine by the bowlful and anoint yourselves with the finest oils, but you fail to grieve over the ruin of Joseph.

Ezekiel 23:33

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You will be filled with drunkenness and grief, with a cup of devastation and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria.

Isaiah 28:1

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Woe to the majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards, to the fading flower of his glorious splendor, set on the summit above the fertile valley, the pride of those overcome by wine.

Psalm 104:15

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wine that gladdens the heart of man, oil that makes his face to shine, and bread that sustains his heart.

Psalm 75:8

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For a cup is in the hand of the LORD, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours from His cup, and all the wicked of the earth drink it down to the dregs.

1 Corinthians 8:9

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Be careful, however, that your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.

Isaiah 55:1

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“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!

Joel 1:5

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Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth.

John 2:10

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and said, “Everyone serves the fine wine first, and then the cheap wine after the guests are drunk. But you have saved the fine wine until now!”

Micah 2:11

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If a man of wind were to come and say falsely, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” he would be just the preacher for this people!

Proverbs 23:29

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Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes?

Proverbs 31:4-7

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It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to crave strong drink, lest they drink and forget what is decreed, depriving all the oppressed of justice. Give strong drink to one who is perishing, and wine to the bitter in soul. Let him drink and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

Proverbs 31:6-7

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Give strong drink to one who is perishing, and wine to the bitter in soul. Let him drink and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

1 Peter 2:11

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Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.

1 Samuel 25:36

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When Abigail returned to Nabal, there he was in the house, holding a feast fit for a king, in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing until morning light.

2 Samuel 11:13

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Then David invited Uriah to eat and drink with him, and he got Uriah drunk. And in the evening Uriah went out to lie down on his cot with his master’s servants, but he did not go home.

Amos 2:8

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They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines.

Isaiah 63:6

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I trampled the nations in My anger; in My wrath I made them drunk and poured out their blood on the ground.”

Numbers 6:3

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he is to abstain from wine and strong drink. He must not drink vinegar made from wine or strong drink, and he must not drink any grape juice or eat fresh grapes or raisins.

Proverbs 31:6

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Give strong drink to one who is perishing, and wine to the bitter in soul.

1 Kings 20:16

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They marched out at noon while Ben-hadad and the 32 kings allied with him were in their tents getting drunk.

1 Peter 4:3-4

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For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry. Because of this, they consider it strange of you not to plunge with them into the same flood of reckless indiscretion, and they heap abuse on you.

1 Thessalonians 5:8

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But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and the helmet of our hope of salvation.

Amos 2:12

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“But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.

Deuteronomy 21:20

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and say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he does not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”

Genesis 19:33

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So that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the firstborn went in and slept with her father; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.

Isaiah 5:12

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At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands.

Proverbs 23:33

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Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities.

Proverbs 31:7

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Let him drink and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

Romans 12:2

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Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.

1 Corinthians 10:13

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No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.

1 Samuel 1:15

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“No, my lord,” Hannah replied. “I am a woman oppressed in spirit. I have not had any wine or strong drink, but I have poured out my soul before the LORD.

Acts 2:15

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These men are not drunk, as you suppose. It is only the third hour of the day!

Isaiah 56:12

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“Come, let me get the wine, let us imbibe the strong drink, and tomorrow will be like today, only far better!”

Proverbs 23:35

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“They struck me, but I feel no pain! They beat me, but I did not know it! When can I wake up to search for another drink?”

Romans 14:15-21

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If your brother is distressed by what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother, for whom Christ died. Do not allow what you consider good, then, to be spoken of as evil. For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. For whoever serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by men. So then, let us pursue what leads to peace and to mutual edification. . . .

1 Corinthians 10:23-24

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“Everything is permissible,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible,” but not everything is edifying. No one should seek his own good, but the good of others.

1 Timothy 3:2-3

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An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not dependent on wine, not violent but gentle, peaceable, and free of the love of money.

Habakkuk 2:15-17

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Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin until they are drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness! You will be filled with shame instead of glory. You too must drink and expose your uncircumcision! The cup in the LORD’s right hand will come around to you, and utter disgrace will cover your glory. For your violence against Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of animals will terrify you, because of your bloodshed against men and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers.

Hosea 7:14

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They do not cry out to Me from their hearts when they wail upon their beds. They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from Me.

Hosea 7:5

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The princes are inflamed with wine on the day of our king; so he joins hands with those who mock him.

Isaiah 28:3

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The majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards will be trampled underfoot.

Ezekiel 23:31-34

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Because you have followed the path of your sister, I will put her cup into your hand.’ This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You will drink your sister’s cup, a cup deep and wide. It will bring scorn and derision, for it holds so much. You will be filled with drunkenness and grief, with a cup of devastation and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria. You will drink it and drain it; you will dash it to pieces, and tear your breasts. For I have spoken,’ declares the Lord GOD.

Habakkuk 2:16

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You will be filled with shame instead of glory. You too must drink and expose your uncircumcision! The cup in the LORD’s right hand will come around to you, and utter disgrace will cover your glory.

John 2:1-11

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On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, and Jesus and His disciples had also been invited to the wedding. When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to Him, “They have no more wine.” “Woman, why does this concern us?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever He tells you.” . . .

Judges 13:4

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Now please be careful not to drink wine or strong drink, and not to eat anything unclean.

Lamentations 3:15

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He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.

Nahum 1:10

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For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard—like stubble that is fully dry.

Habakkuk 2:15-16

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Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin until they are drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness! You will be filled with shame instead of glory. You too must drink and expose your uncircumcision! The cup in the LORD’s right hand will come around to you, and utter disgrace will cover your glory.

Revelation 1:1-20

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This is the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants what must soon come to pass. He made it known by sending His angel to His servant John, who testifies to everything he saw. This is the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear and obey what is written in it, because the time is near. John, To the seven churches in the province of Asia: Grace and peace to you from Him who is and was and is to come, and from the seven Spirits before His throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood, . . .

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