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| 1 Wine is, a scoffer, and strong drink, a brawler, every one therefore who erreth therein, is unwise. |
Wine is a mocker – Wine personifies alcohol. R3270:2
Intemperance is one of the most dreadful curses afflicting humanity. R2873:1
The cost of intemperance is not merely of the liquor, but of the crimes and diseases attendant. R3859:6
There is also an intoxication of pleasure, of fashion, of pride and fond desire, which seeks to stupify the new mind. R2873:5
The intemperate use of spiritous liquors is an apt illustration of the course and effect of sin in general. R1631:2
A clear knowledge of the divine plan should lead us more diligently to bring every power and talent of mind and body into full subjection to the divine will. R2873:5
The "royal priests" are in more danger from symbolic wine than from natural. R4031:5
If others are drunk with wine, let us be filled with a different kind of wine--the holy Spirit. R5038:6
We desire to express our full sympathy with the temperance cause. R3859:6
While the wise man does not say that a moderate use of alcohol brings woe and sorrow, most who tarry long at wine reached that condition through habit after beginning with the intention of being only moderate drinkers. R3271:2
Drink is raging – A warning against a foe so subtle and destructive to peace and righteousness. R1444:4
The amount spent in the United States for liquor is nearly four times that spent to conduct the government. (1894) R1631:5
Statistics of 1899 show that 72% of all criminals were made so by strong drink. R3055:1
The devil is for the saloon, God is against it; vice is for it, virtue is against it; the brothel is for it, the home is against it; the anarchist is for it, the statesman is against it; poverty is for it, plenty is against it; misery is for it, happiness is against it; disease is for it, health is against it; death is for it, life is against it. R4007:3*
Not wise Though the advocacy of total abstinence is radical and unscriptural, whoever trifles with this mocker is in danger of being deceived by it. R2533:2
Who permit themselves to be deceived by sin in any of its forms, for the pleasures of sin are brief and unsatisfying. R1631:5
Circumstances and climate here, as well as the purity of the liquors, differ much from those of Jesus and the apostles. R509:5
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| 2 The growl as of a young lion, is the dread inspired by a king, he that provoketh him, endangereth his own life. |
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| 3 Honour, hath the man who sitteth away from strife, but, any fool, may break through. |
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| 4 By reason of the autumn, a sluggard will not plough, therefore shall he beg in harvest, and there be nothing. |
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| 5 Deep water, is counsel in a man's heart, but, a man of understanding, will draw it out. |
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| 6 A kind man one may call, a great man,–but, a faithful man, who can find? |
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| 7 As for a righteous man, walking in his integrity, how happy are his children after him! |
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| 8 A king sitting on the throne of judgment, scattereth, with his eyes, all wrong. |
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| 9 Who can say, I have cleansed my heart, I am pure from my sin? |
Made my heart clean – "In my flesh dwelleth no good thing" (Rom. 7:18) --no perfection, and all imperfection is un-right, and all unrighteousness is sin. R2721:3
I am pure – "If we say (speaking of our flesh and ignoring the justification provided in Christ to cover its blemishes) that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us." (1 John 1:8) R2721:3
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| 10 Divers weights, and divers measures, an abomination to Yahweh, are they, both. |
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| 11 Even, by his doings, doth a youth make himself known, whether, pure and upright, be his work. |
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| 12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Yahweh hath made them, both. |
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| 13 Do not love sleep, lest thou come to poverty, open thine eyes, be satisfied with bread. |
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| 14 Bad! bad! saith the buyer, but, going his way, then, he boasteth. |
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| 15 There are gold, and an abundance of corals, but, precious jewels, are the lips of knowledge. |
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| 16 Take his garment who is pledge for a stranger,–then, for a woman unknown, accept him as surety. |
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| 17 Sweet to a man, may be the bread of falsehood, but, afterward, shall his mouth be filled with gravel. |
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| 18 Plans–by counsel, shalt thou establish, and, with concerted measures, make thou war. |
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| 19 A revealer of secrets, is one who goeth about talebearing, therefore, with him who openeth his lips, shalt thou not have fellowship. |
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| 20 Whoso revileth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in deep darkness. |
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| 21 An inheritance hastily gotten at the beginning, the latter end thereof, shall not bring blessing. |
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| 22 Do not say, I will requite wrong! Wait thou for Yahweh that he may save thee. |
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| 23 An abomination to Yahweh, are divers weights, and, deceptive balances, are not good. |
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| 24 From Yahweh, are a man's steps, a son of earth, then–how can he discern his way? |
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| 25 It is a snare to a man, that he should rashly cry Holy! and, after making vows, to reflect! |
It is a snare – Leeser translates this verse: "It is a snare to a man to sanctify things hastily and to make inquiry only after having made vows." R2081:1
To make inquiry – In the sense of reconsidering the cost and, in view of the cost, whether or not we shall keep it. R2081:1
But it is a blessing to make thorough inquiry, and register afresh, our consecration vow. R4265:6
If, after vowing, inquiry finds it greater and more comprehensive than first supposed, let one not break it, but, as in Psa. 50:14, "I will pay my vows unto the Most High." R4265:6
"When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it. Better it is that thou shouldest not vow than that thou shouldest vow and not pay." (Eccl. 5:4, 5) R4265:6, R2154:5
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| 26 A wise king, winnoweth out the lawless, when he hath turned over them the wheel. |
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| 27 The lamp of Yahweh, is the spirit of a son of earth, searching all the chambers of the inner man. |
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| 28 Lovingkindness and faithfulness, will guard a king,–therefore should he support, with lovingkindness, his throne. |
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| 29 The beauty of young men, is their strength, and, the ornament of old men, a hoary head. |
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| 30 Blows that cut in, cleanse away wickedness, and, smitings, [enter] the chambers of the inner man. |
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