18And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. …
For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 3-20)These verses contain a caution against all manner of uncleanness, with proper remedies and arguments proposed: some further cautions are added, and other duties recommended. Filthy lusts must be suppressed, in order to the supporting of holy love. Walk in love , and shun fornication and all uncleanness. Fornication is folly committed between unmarried persons. All uncleanness includes all other so…
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