1 Timothy 5:23 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Drink water no longer exclusively, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent illnesses.

American Standard Version (1901)

Be no longer a drinker of water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.

Common English Bible

Don’t drink water anymore, but use a little wine because of your stomach problems and your frequent illnesses.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Do not continue to drink only water, but make use of a little wine, for the sake of your stomach and your frequent infirmities.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Do not still drink water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake, and thy frequent infirmities.

1 Timothy 5:23 Cross References

Psalm 104:15

and wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.

Ezekiel 44:21

Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.

Acts 18:5

And when Silas and Timothy were come from Macedo´nia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ.

Ephesians 5:18

And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

1 Timothy 3:3

not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;

1 Timothy 3:8

Likewise must the deacons be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

1 Timothy 4:4

For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:

Titus 1:7

For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;

Titus 2:3

The aged women likewise, that they be in behavior as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;