Ephesians 5:18 Cross References - Mace

¹⁸ do not drink to excess, for that tends to dissoluteness, but be regal'd with spiritual entertainments:

²⁵ wo unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; for ye clean the outside of the cup, and of the plate, but within they are full of rapine and impurity.

⁴⁹ and shall pretend to assault his fellow-servants, and spend his time with sots:

¹⁵ he shall appear as a divine messenger. he shall drink neither wine, nor any other strong liquor: he shall be filled with the holy spirit, even from his infancy:

¹³ if ye then, wicked as ye are, know how to give what is proper to your children: how much more shall your heavenly father give the holy spirit to them that ask him?

⁴⁵ but if the servant should say within himself, my master delays his return; and fall a beating his fellow-servants, indulging himself in eating and drinking to excess.

³⁴ set a guard upon yourselves, that ye be not stupified by surfeiting and drunkenness, or by the disquietudes of this life, and so that day come upon you with a surprize.

¹³ others in derision said, these men are full of sweet wine. ¹⁴ But Peter standing up with the eleven, and raising his voice, said to them, ye men of Judea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known to you, and observe what I say. ¹⁵ these are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is but the third hour of the day. ¹⁶ but this is the accomplishment of what was said by the prophet Joel, ¹⁷ "it shall come to pass in the last days (saith God) I will pour out of my spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men dream dreams: ¹⁸ and on my servants, and on my handmaidens I will pour out of my spirit in those days, and they shall prophesy:

²⁴ for he was a good man, and full of the holy spirit and of faith: so that many converts were added to the church.

¹³ let us behave with decency as in open view; not with rioting and drunkenness, not with lewdness and brutality, not with strife and envy.

¹¹ but my meaning was, not to keep company with any christian known to be vicious, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or rapacious, no not even to eat with such a one.

¹⁰ nor thieves, nor misers, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor raparees, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

²¹ for in eating every one strives to take his own supper first, and while one is hungry, another is surfeited.

²¹ drunkenness, revellings, and such like, concerning which I forewarn you now, as heretofore I have done, that they who practise such vices, shall not inherit the kingdom of God. ²² but the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, sweetness of disposition, beneficence, faithfulness, meekness, temperance: ²³ against such there is no law. ²⁴ now they who belong to Christ, have crucified the animal nature with the affections and passions thereof. ²⁵ if we live by the spirit, let us regulate our actions by the spirit:

⁷ they that are sober take their rest in the night, whilst they that are sots, are drunk in the night:

⁶ to chuse such as are without reproach, married to but one wife, whose children are obedient, not accused of debauchery, nor unruly.

³ for the time past of your lives may suffice, to have liv'd in conformity to the Gentile customs, in impurity, licentiousness, sottishness, in dissolute festivals, and the criminal rites of idolaters. ⁴ As they think it strange, that you don't concur in the same profusion of luxury, they traduce you.