Thematic Bible: Total abstinence from strong drink
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Social duties » Total abstinence from strong drink » Law from the nazarites
they shall separate themselves from wine and strong drink and shall drink no vinegar of wine or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall they drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes or dried.
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Ye have never eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.
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Now keep thyself and drink no wine nor strong drink and eat no unclean thing.
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Social duties » Total abstinence from strong drink » Daniel's temperance principles
And Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's food, nor with the wine which he drank; therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.
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I ate no pleasant bread, neither did flesh nor wine come into my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all until the three weeks of days were fulfilled.
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For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He has a devil.
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Social duties » Total abstinence from strong drink » Brotherly love demands
It is good neither to eat flesh nor to drink wine nor do any thing by which thy brother stumbles or is offended or is sick.
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Therefore, if food makes my brother to fall, I will never eat flesh nor do anything which may cause my brother to fall.
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Social duties » Total abstinence from strong drink » Encouraged upon the priests
Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee when ye go into the tabernacle of the testimony, lest ye die; it shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations;
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Social duties » Total abstinence from strong drink » The wise man's injunction
Do not look upon the wine when it is red, when it gives its colour in the cup, it goes down smoothly.
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Social duties » Total abstinence from strong drink » The law of the rechabites
But they said, We will drink no wine: for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no wine, neither ye, nor 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 drink wine; nor is beer for princes
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Social duties » Total abstinence from strong drink » John the baptist a total abstainer
For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.
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