21For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
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He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
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.
And they shall say unto 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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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-28)Here is good advice for parents to give to their children; words are put into their mouths, that they may train them up in the way they should go . Here we have, I. An earnest call to young people to attend to the advice of their godly parents, not only to this that is here given, but to all other profitable instructions: “ Here, my son, and be wise , Prov. 23:19. This will be an evidence that tho…
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