1 Timothy 5:23

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1 Timothy 5:23

Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.

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not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.

"Drink no wine nor strong drink, you, nor your sons with you, when you go into the Tent of Meeting, that you don't die: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations:

wine that makes glad the heart of man, oil to make his face to shine, and bread that strengthens man's heart.

It is not for kings, Lemuel; it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes to say, 'Where is strong drink?'

Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.

Don't be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

For the overseer must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;