1 Timothy 5:23 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

Be no longer a drinker of 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 that strengtheneth man's heart.

Ezekiel 44:21

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

Acts 18:5

But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was constrained by the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

Ephesians 5:18

And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit;

1 Timothy 3:3

no brawler, no striker; but gentle, not contentious, no lover of money;

1 Timothy 3:8

Deacons in like manner must be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

1 Timothy 4:4

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

Titus 1:7

For the bishop must be blameless, as God's steward; not selfwilled, not soon angry, no brawler, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre;

Titus 2:3

that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanour, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;