“Those who stay long at the wine; those who go to seek out mixed wine.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Proverbs 23 contains 35 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.