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Proverbs 23:20-21

The New Testament’s use of Proverbs

2 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat: for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

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Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.

Echo2

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

Luke 21:34-36 ?

Wisdom warns against being among drunkards and gluttons, for drunkenness and carousing bring poverty and ruin. Jesus' caution that hearts not be weighed down by carousing and drunkenness draws on this sapiential warning against dissipation. Faint wisdom-tradition coloring.

Low confidence
Rom 13:11-14 ?

'Be not among drunkards... for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty' — sapiential warning against carousing and drunkenness behind 'not in reveling and drunkenness' (v.13).

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Proverbs 23
Proverbs 23:4-5 3Proverbs 23:31 2