Thematic Bible: Total abstinence from strong drink
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Social duties » Total abstinence from strong drink » Law from the nazarites
He is to keep himself from wine and strong drink, and take no mixed wine or strong drink or any drink made from grapes, or any grapes, green or dry.
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You have had no bread, or wine, or strong drink: so that you might see that I am the Lord your God.
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Now then take care to have no wine or strong drink and to take no unclean thing for food;
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Social duties » Total abstinence from strong drink » Daniel's temperance principles
And Daniel had come to the decision that he would not make himself unclean with the king's food or wine; so he made a request to the captain of the unsexed servants that he might not make himself unclean.
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I had no pleasing food, no meat or wine came into my mouth, and I put no oil on my body till three full weeks were ended.
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For John came, taking no food or drink, and they say, He has an evil spirit.
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Social duties » Total abstinence from strong drink » Brotherly love demands
It is better not to take meat or wine or to do anything which might be a cause of trouble to your brother.
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For this reason, if food is a cause of trouble to my brother, I will give up taking meat for ever, so that I may not be a cause of trouble to my brother.
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Social duties » Total abstinence from strong drink » Encouraged upon the priests
Take no wine, or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the Tent of meeting, that it may not be the cause of death to you; this is an order for ever through all your generations.
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Social duties » Total abstinence from strong drink » The wise man's injunction
Keep your eyes from looking on the wine when it is red, when its colour is bright in the cup, when it goes smoothly down:
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Social duties » Total abstinence from strong drink » The law of the rechabites
But they said, We will take no wine: for Jonadab, the son of Rechab our father, gave us orders, saying, You are to take no wine, you or your sons, for ever:
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Social duties » Total abstinence from strong drink » Rule for kings
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to take wine, or for rulers to say, Where is strong drink?
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Social duties » Total abstinence from strong drink » John the baptist a total abstainer
For he will be great in the eyes of the Lord; he will not take wine or strong drink; and he will be full of the Spirit of God from his birth.
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