1 Timothy 5:23

A Conservative Version

No longer drink water, but use a little wine because of thy stomach and thy frequent weaknesses.

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and wine that makes glad the heart of man, [and] oil to make his face to shine, and bread that strengthens man's heart.

Because every creation of God is good, and nothing rejected that is received with thankfulness,

Helpers likewise, be honorable, not double-tongued, not attending to much wine, not greedy of base gain,

Aged women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderous, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is good,

For the overseer must be blameless as a steward of God, not self-willed, not prone to angry, not a drunkard, not a fighter, not greedy of base gain,

no drunkard, not a fighter, not greedy of base gain, but meek, noncontentious, no lover of money,

And do not become intoxicated with wine, during which is debauchery, but be filled in Spirit,

Neither shall any of the priests drink wine when they enter into the inner court.

And when both Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was being held by the Spirit, fully testifying to the Jews, Jesus the Christ.