10 The first wrote, “Wine is the strongest.” (WEB)
1 Esdras 3:10
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1 Esdras 3:16–18
16 He said, “Call the young men, and they shall explain their own sentences. So they were called and came in. (WEB) 17 They said to them, “Explain what you have written.” Then the first, who had spoken of the strength of wine, began (WEB) 18 and said this: “O sirs, how exceedingly… (WEB)
1 Esdras 3:23–24
23 But when they awake from their wine, they don’t remember what they have done. (WEB) 24 O sirs, isn’t wine the strongest, seeing that it forces people to do this?” And when he had said this, he stopped speaking. (WEB)
Testament of Judah 3:28–30
28 Moreover, wine revealeth the mysteries of God and men, even as I also revealed the commandments of God and the mysteries of Jacob my father to the Canaanitish woman Bathshua, which God bade me not to reveal. (T12) 29 And wine is a cause both of war and confusion. (T12) 30 And no… (T12)
Proverbs 23:29–31
29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes? 30 Those who linger over wine, who go to taste mixed drinks. 31 Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoot…
1 Esdras 4:1–2
1 Then the second, who had spoken of the strength of the king, began to say, (WEB) 2 “O sirs, don’t men excel in strength who rule over the sea and land, and all things in them? (WEB)
John 2:9–11
9 and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not know where it was from, but the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside 10 and said, “Everyone serves the fine wine first, and then the ch…
Luke 5:38–39
38 Instead, new wine is poured into new wineskins. 39 And no one after drinking old wine wants new, for he says, ‘The old is better.’”
Sirach 31:24–26
24 The city will murmur at him who is a stingy with his food. The testimony of his stinginess will be accurate. (WEB) 25 Don’t show yourself valiant in wine, for wine has destroyed many. (WEB) 26 The furnace tests the temper of steel by dipping; so does wine test hearts in the quar… (WEB)
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