1 Timothy 5:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

No longer drink only water, but take a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.

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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 to gladden the human heart, oil to make the face shine and bread to strengthen the human heart.

Ezekiel 44:21

No priest shall drink wine when he enters the inner court.

Acts 18:5

When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul was occupied with proclaiming the word, testifying to the Jews that the Messiah was Jesus.

Ephesians 5:18

Do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,

1 Timothy 3:3

not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, and not a lover of money.

1 Timothy 3:8

Deacons likewise must be serious, not double-tongued, not indulging in much wine, not greedy for money;

1 Timothy 4:4

For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, provided it is received with thanksgiving,

Titus 1:7

For a bishop, as God’s steward, must be blameless; he must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or addicted to wine or violent or greedy for gain,

Titus 2:3

Likewise, tell the older women to be reverent in behavior, not to be slanderers or enslaved to much wine; they are to teach what is good,