Thematic Bible: Total abstinence
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Abstinence » Total abstinence » 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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Abstinence » Total abstinence » 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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Abstinence » Total abstinence » 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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Abstinence » Total abstinence » 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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Abstinence » Total abstinence » 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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Abstinence » Total abstinence » 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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Abstinence » Total abstinence » 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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Abstinence » Total abstinence » 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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Total abstinence » From intoxicating beverages
Now then take care to have no wine or strong drink and to take no unclean thing for food;
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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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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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And the Lord said to Aaron: 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. And make a division between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean;
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. All the time he is separate he may take nothing made from the grape-vine, from its seeds to its skin.
And the angel of the Lord said to Manoah, Let the woman take note of what I have said to her. She is to have nothing which comes from the vine for her food, and let her take no wine or strong drink or anything which is unclean; let her take care to do all I have given her orders to do.
And the drinking was in keeping with the law; no one was forced: for the king had given orders to all the chief servants of his house to do as was pleasing to every man.
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Do not be among those who give themselves to wine-drinking, or among those who make themselves full with meat:
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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: In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake.
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: And you are to make no houses, or put in seed, or get vine-gardens planted, or have any: but all your days you are to go on living in tents, so that you may have a long life in the land where you are living as in a strange country. And we have kept the rules of Jonadab, the son of Rechab our father, in everything which he gave us orders to do, drinking no wine all our days, we and our wives and our sons and our daughters;
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The orders which Jonadab, the son of Rechab, gave to his sons to take no wine, are done, and to this day they take no wine, for they do the orders of their father: but I have sent my words to you, getting up early and sending them, and you have not given ear to me.
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Total abstinence » Instances of » Samson
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. All the time he is separate he may take nothing made from the grape-vine, from its seeds to its skin.
And the angel of the Lord said to Manoah, Let the woman take note of what I have said to her. She is to have nothing which comes from the vine for her food, and let her take no wine or strong drink or anything which is unclean; let her take care to do all I have given her orders to do.
And opening all his heart to her, he said to her, My head has never been touched by a blade, for I have been separate to God from the day of my birth: if my hair is cut off, then my strength will go from me and I will become feeble, and will be like any other man.
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And the angel of the Lord came to the woman, and said to her, See now! though you have never given birth to children, you will be with child and give birth to a son. Now then take care to have no wine or strong drink and to take no unclean thing for food; For you are with child and will give birth to a son; his hair is never to be cut, for the child is to be separate to God from his birth; and he will take up the work of freeing Israel from the hands of the Philistines.
Total abstinence » Instances of » John the baptist
For John came, taking no food or drink, and they say, He has an evil spirit.
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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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For John the Baptist came, taking no food or drink, and you say, He has an evil spirit.
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Total abstinence » Instances of » 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: And you are to make no houses, or put in seed, or get vine-gardens planted, or have any: but all your days you are to go on living in tents, so that you may have a long life in the land where you are living as in a strange country. And we have kept the rules of Jonadab, the son of Rechab our father, in everything which he gave us orders to do, drinking no wine all our days, we and our wives and our sons and our daughters; read more.
Building no houses for ourselves, having no vine-gardens or fields or seed: But we have been living in tents, and have done everything which Jonadab our father gave us orders to do. But when Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, came up into the land, we said, Come, let us go to Jerusalem, away from the army of the Chaldaeans and from the army of the Aramaeans: and so we are living in Jerusalem. Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Go and say to the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, Is there no hope of teaching you to give ear to my words? says the Lord. The orders which Jonadab, the son of Rechab, gave to his sons to take no wine, are done, and to this day they take no wine, for they do the orders of their father: but I have sent my words to you, getting up early and sending them, and you have not given ear to me.
Building no houses for ourselves, having no vine-gardens or fields or seed: But we have been living in tents, and have done everything which Jonadab our father gave us orders to do. But when Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, came up into the land, we said, Come, let us go to Jerusalem, away from the army of the Chaldaeans and from the army of the Aramaeans: and so we are living in Jerusalem. Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Go and say to the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, Is there no hope of teaching you to give ear to my words? says the Lord. The orders which Jonadab, the son of Rechab, gave to his sons to take no wine, are done, and to this day they take no wine, for they do the orders of their father: but I have sent my words to you, getting up early and sending them, and you have not given ear to me.
Total abstinence » Instances of » Daniel
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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Put your servants to the test for ten days; let them give us grain for our food and water for our drink.
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Total abstinence » Instances of » Israelites in the wilderness
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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Temperance » Total abstinence » 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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Temperance » Total abstinence » 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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Temperance » Total abstinence » 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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Temperance » Total abstinence » 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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Temperance » Total abstinence » 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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Temperance » Total abstinence » 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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Temperance » Total abstinence » 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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Temperance » Total abstinence » 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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