Deuteronomy 21:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

And they shall say to the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.

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  • Prov 20:1 : 1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.
  • Prov 23:19-21 : 19 Hear, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart in the way. 20 Do not be among winebibbers, among gluttonous eaters of meat: 21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty, and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
  • Prov 23:29-35 : 29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? 30 Those who linger long at the wine, those who go to seek mixed wine. 31 Do not look upon the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it swirls smoothly. 32 At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like a viper. 33 Your eyes shall see strange things, and your heart shall utter perverse things. 34 Yes, you shall be as one who lies down in the midst of the sea, or as one who lies upon the top of a mast. 35 "They have struck me," you shall say, "and I was not hurt; they have beaten me, and I did not feel it; when shall I awake, I will seek it yet again."
  • Prov 29:17 : 17 Correct your son, and he will give you rest; yes, he will give delight to your soul.
  • Prov 19:26 : 26 He who wastes his father, and chases away his mother, is a son who causes shame, and brings reproach.

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  • Deut 21:18-19
    2 verses
    85%

    18If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have chastened him, will not listen to them,

    19Then shall his father and his mother take hold of him, and bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place;

  • Deut 21:21
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    21And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he may die: so shall you put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear and fear.

  • Prov 23:19-22
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    77%

    19Hear, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart in the way.

    20Do not be among winebibbers, among gluttonous eaters of meat:

    21For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty, and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

    22Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

  • Prov 20:1
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    1Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.

  • Hab 2:5
    71%

    5Indeed, because he transgresses by wine, he is a proud man, neither stays at home, who enlarges his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all people:

  • Prov 17:25
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    25A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

  • Prov 15:20
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    20A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

  • Prov 19:26
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    26He who wastes his father, and chases away his mother, is a son who causes shame, and brings reproach.

  • Luke 15:13
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    13And not many days after, the younger son gathered everything together, and took his journey to a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.

  • Exod 21:15
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    15And he who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

  • Luke 15:30
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    30But as soon as this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with harlots, you killed the fatted calf for him.

  • Prov 17:21
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    21He who begets a fool does so to his sorrow, and the father of a fool has no joy.

  • Isa 28:7
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    7But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up by wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

  • Ezek 18:14
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    14Now, if he begets a son who sees all his father's sins which he has done, and considers and does not do such like,

  • Exod 21:17
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    17And he who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

  • Exod 21:31
    68%

    31Whether it has gored a son or a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him.

  • Prov 20:20
    68%

    20Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in deep darkness.

  • Hab 2:15
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    15Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, who puts the bottle to him, and makes him drunk also, that you may look on their nakedness!

  • Ezek 18:10
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    10If he begets a son who is a robber, a shedder of blood, and does any of these things,

  • Prov 4:17
    68%

    17For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

  • Matt 11:19
    68%

    19The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners. But wisdom is justified by her children.

  • Isa 5:11
    68%

    11Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; who continue until night, till wine inflames them!

  • Joel 1:5
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    5Awake, you drunkards, and weep; and howl, all you drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

  • Isa 5:22
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    22Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mix strong drink:

  • Isa 51:21
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    21Therefore hear now this, you afflicted, and drunk, but not with wine:

  • Prov 22:6
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    6Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

  • Luke 15:21
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    21And the son said to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight, and am no longer worthy to be called your son.

  • Prov 13:1
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    1A wise son hears his father's instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.

  • Eccl 10:16-17
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    16Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child, and your princes eat in the morning!

    17Blessed are you, O land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

  • Luke 15:11
    67%

    11And he said, A certain man had two sons:

  • Prov 28:7
    67%

    7Whoever keeps the law is a wise son, but he who is a companion of riotous men shames his father.

  • Deut 22:21
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    21Then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones so that she dies, because she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel, to play the harlot in her father's house. So shall you put away the evil from among you.

  • Prov 19:18
    67%

    18Chasten your son while there is hope, and do not spare for his crying.

  • Prov 1:15
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    15My son, do not walk in the way with them, hold back your foot from their path;

  • Isa 56:12
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    12Come, they say, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.

  • Deut 22:18
    67%

    18And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him.

  • Deut 13:11
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    11And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this among you.

  • Prov 31:5
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    5Lest they drink and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

  • Prov 28:24
    67%

    24Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, It is no transgression, is a companion of a destroyer.

  • Prov 30:11
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    11There is a generation that curses their father, and does not bless their mother.

  • Prov 13:24
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    24He who spares his rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him promptly.

  • Deut 27:16
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    16Cursed be he who dishonors his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

  • Hos 7:14
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    14And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they gather themselves for grain and wine, and they rebel against me.

  • Mic 2:11
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    11If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood lies, saying, I will prophesy to you of wine and strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.

  • Prov 23:30
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    30Those who linger long at the wine, those who go to seek mixed wine.