Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake and your frequent infirmities.
New American Standard Bible
No longer drink water exclusively, but
King James Version
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
Holman Bible
Don’t continue drinking only water, but use a little wine because of your stomach and your frequent illnesses.
International Standard Version
Stop drinking only water, but use a little wine for your stomach because of your frequent illnesses.
A Conservative Version
No longer drink water, but use a little wine because of thy stomach and thy frequent weaknesses.
American Standard Version
Be no longer a drinker of water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
Amplified
No longer
An Understandable Version
Do not continue drinking water only, but use a little wine [i.e., for its medicinal value] for your stomach and for your frequent [other] ailments.
Anderson New Testament
Drink water no longer, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake, and your frequent infirmities.
Bible in Basic English
Do not take only water as your drink, but take a little wine for the good of your stomach, and because you are frequently ill.
Common New Testament
No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.
Daniel Mace New Testament
Discontinue the drinking of bare water, take a litle wine out of regard to your weak stomach, and your frequent indispositions.
Darby Translation
Drink no longer only water, but use a little wine on account of thy stomach and thy frequent illnesses.
Godbey New Testament
Keep yourself pure. No longer drink water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and on account of your frequent sickness.
Goodspeed New Testament
Stop drinking nothing but water; take a little wine for the good of your digestion and for your frequent attacks of illness.
John Wesley New Testament
Drink water no longer, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thy frequent infirmities.
Julia Smith Translation
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach and thy frequent weaknesses.
King James 2000
Drink no longer water only, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake and your frequent illnesses.
Lexham Expanded Bible
(No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for your stomach and your frequent illnesses.)
Modern King James verseion
Drink water no longer, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake, and for your frequent infirmities.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine, for thy stomach's sake, and thine often diseases.
Moffatt New Testament
[Give up being a total abstainer; take a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent attacks of illness.]
Montgomery New Testament
Do not continue to drink nothing but water, but take a little wine for your stomach's sake, and your frequent attacks of illness.
NET Bible
(Stop drinking just water, but use a little wine for your digestion and your frequent illnesses.)
Noyes New Testament
No longer drink water only, but use a little wine for thy stomachs sake, and thy frequent infirmities.
Sawyer New Testament
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine on account of your stomach and your frequent infirmities.
The Emphasized Bible
No longer, be a water-drinker, but, of a little wine, make use, because of thy stomach and thy, frequent, sicknesses.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
confine thyself no longer to water-drinking; but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake, and thy frequent indispositions.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Do not continue to drink water only, but take a little wine on account of the weakness of your stomach, and your frequent ailments.
Webster
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake, and thy frequent infirmities.
Weymouth New Testament
(No longer be a water-drinker; but take a little wine for the sake of your digestion and your frequent ailments.)
Williams New Testament
Stop drinking water only, but take a little wine to strengthen your stomach and relieve its frequent attacks.
World English Bible
Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake and your frequent infirmities.
Worrell New Testament
Be no longer a drinker of water, but use a little wine because of your stomach and your frequent infirmities.
Worsley New Testament
Drink no longer water only, but use a little wine with it, for the sake of thy stomach and thy frequent infirmities.
Youngs Literal Translation
no longer be drinking water, but a little wine be using, because of thy stomach and of thine often infirmities;
Themes
Disease » Remedies » General references
Prevention and cure of diseases » Remedies
Remedies » Remedies, for disease
Wine » Was used » As a medicine
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References
Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Timothy 5:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
Honoring Worthy Elders And Dealing With Sinners
22 Lay hands hastily on no one, neither be a participant in other men's sins. Keep yourself pure. 23 Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake and your frequent infirmities. 24 Some men's sins are evident, preceding them to judgment, and some also follow later.
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Cross References
1 Timothy 3:8
Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not devoted to a lot of wine, not greedy for money;
Psalm 104:15
wine that makes glad the heart of man, oil to make his face to shine, and bread that strengthens man's heart.
Ephesians 5:18
Do not get drunk with wine, which is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,
1 Timothy 3:3
not a drunkard, not violent, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money;
Titus 1:7
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;
Titus 2:3
and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;
Leviticus 10:9-11
"Drink no wine nor strong drink, you, nor your sons with you, when you go into the Tent of Meeting, that you do not die: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations:
Proverbs 31:4-7
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for princes to take strong drink,
Ezekiel 44:21
Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
1 Timothy 4:4
For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.