Thematic Bible: Total abstinence from strong drink
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Social duties » Total abstinence from strong drink » Law from the nazarites
from wine and strong drink he doth keep separate; vinegar of wine, and vinegar of strong drink he doth not drink, and any juice of grapes he doth not drink, and grapes moist or dry he doth not eat;
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bread ye have not eaten, and wine and strong drink ye have not drunk, so that ye know that I am Jehovah your God.
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And, now, take heed, I pray thee, and do not drink wine, and strong drink, and do not eat any unclean thing,
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Social duties » Total abstinence from strong drink » Daniel's temperance principles
And Daniel purposeth in his heart that he will not pollute himself with the king's portion of food, and with the wine of his drinking, and he seeketh of the chief of the eunuchs that he may not pollute himself.
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desirable bread I have not eaten, and flesh and wine hath not come in unto my mouth, and I have not anointed myself at all, till the completion of three weeks of days.
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'For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a demon;
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Social duties » Total abstinence from strong drink » Brotherly love demands
Right it is not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything in which thy brother doth stumble, or is made to fall, or is weak.
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wherefore, if victuals cause my brother to stumble, I may eat no flesh -- to the age -- that my brother I may not cause to stumble.
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Social duties » Total abstinence from strong drink » Encouraged upon the priests
Wine and strong drink thou dost not drink, thou, and thy sons with thee, in your going in unto the tent of meeting, and ye die not -- a statute age-during to your generations;
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Social duties » Total abstinence from strong drink » The wise man's injunction
See not wine when it showeth itself red, When it giveth in the cup its colour, It goeth up and down through the upright.
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Social duties » Total abstinence from strong drink » The law of the rechabites
And they say, 'We do not drink wine: for Jonadab son of Rechab, our father, charged us, saying, Ye do not drink wine, ye and your sons -- unto the age;
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Social duties » Total abstinence from strong drink » Rule for kings
Not for kings, O Lemuel, Not for kings, to drink wine, And for princes a desire of strong drink.
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Social duties » Total abstinence from strong drink » John the baptist a total abstainer
for he shall be great before the Lord, and wine and strong drink he may not drink, and of the Holy Spirit he shall be full, even from his mother's womb;
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