Thematic Bible: Total abstinence from strong drink
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Social duties » Total abstinence from strong drink » Law from the nazarites
he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar made from wine or strong drink and shall not drink any juice of grapes or eat grapes, fresh or dried.
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You have not eaten bread, and you have not drunk wine or strong drink, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.
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Therefore be careful and drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean,
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Social duties » Total abstinence from strong drink » Daniel's temperance principles
But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king's food, or with the wine that he drank. Therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself.
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I ate no delicacies, no meat or wine entered my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, for the full three weeks.
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For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, 'He has a demon.'
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Social duties » Total abstinence from strong drink » Brotherly love demands
It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.
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Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.
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Social duties » Total abstinence from strong drink » Encouraged upon the priests
"Drink no wine or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the tent of meeting, lest you die. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.
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Social duties » Total abstinence from strong drink » The wise man's injunction
Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.
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Social duties » Total abstinence from strong drink » The law of the rechabites
But they answered, "We will drink no wine, for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, 'You shall not drink wine, neither you nor your sons forever.
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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 drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink,
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Social duties » Total abstinence from strong drink » John the baptist a total abstainer
for he will be great before the Lord. And he must not drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.
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