Cross references

Proverbs 23:20

Do not join those who drink too much wine

or gorge themselves on meat.

Proverbs 23:20 BSB

Proverbs 23:20 has 14 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 10 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Luke 21:34 (7 votes) and Ephesians 5:18 (7 votes). 9 other verses point back to it. It links with 8 other books, from Deuteronomy 21 to 1 Peter 4.

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Which verses does Proverbs 23:20 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Luke 21:347 votes

    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.

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

  3. Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine and champions in mixing strong drink,

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

  5. A discerning son keeps the law, but a companion of gluttons disgraces his father.

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

  7. But look, there is joy and gladness, butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”

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

  9. Luke 15:134 votes

    After a few days, the younger son got everything together and journeyed to a distant country, where he squandered his wealth in wild living.

  10. 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.

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

  12. 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. …

  13. Luke 16:193 votes

Which verses point to Proverbs 23:20?

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