Show me people who drink too much, who have to try out fancy drinks, and I will show you people who are miserable and sorry for themselves, always causing trouble and always complaining. Their eyes are bloodshot, and they have bruises that could have been avoided.

Don't let wine tempt you, even though it is rich red, and it sparkles in the cup, and it goes down smoothly.

Weird sights will appear before your eyes, and you will not be able to think or speak clearly.

"I must have been hit," you will say; "I must have been beaten up, but I don't remember it. Why can't I wake up? I need another drink."

Drinking too much makes you loud and foolish. It's stupid to get drunk.

Young people who obey the law are intelligent. Those who make friends with good-for-nothings are a disgrace to their parents.

Alcohol is for people who are dying, for those who are in misery.

Let them drink and forget their poverty and unhappiness.

You are doomed! You get up early in the morning to start drinking, and you spend long evenings getting drunk.

You are doomed! Heroes of the wine bottle! Brave and fearless when it comes to mixing drinks!

Instead, you laughed and celebrated. You killed sheep and cattle to eat, and you drank wine. You said, "We might as well eat and drink! Tomorrow we'll be dead."

and he will begin to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards.

After a few days the younger son sold his part of the property and left home with the money. He went to a country far away, where he wasted his money in reckless living.

"There was once a rich man who dressed in the most expensive clothes and lived in great luxury every day.

"Be careful not to let yourselves become occupied with too much feasting and drinking and with the worries of this life, or that Day may suddenly catch you

Let us conduct ourselves properly, as people who live in the light of day---no orgies or drunkenness, no immorality or indecency, no fighting or jealousy.

Do not get drunk with wine, which will only ruin you; instead, be filled with the Spirit.

You have spent enough time in the past doing what the heathen like to do. Your lives were spent in indecency, lust, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and the disgusting worship of idols.

And now the heathen are surprised when you do not join them in the same wild and reckless living, and so they insult you.