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1 Timothy 5:23

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Don’t continue drinking only water, but use a little wine because of your stomach and your frequent illnesses.

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

Deacons, likewise, should be worthy of respect, not hypocritical, not drinking a lot of wine, not greedy for money,

In the same way, older women are to be reverent in behaviour, not slanderers, not slaves to excessive drinking. They are to teach what is good,

As an overseer of God’s household, he must be blameless, not arrogant, not hot-tempered, not an excessive drinker, not a bully, not greedy for money,

not an excessive drinker, not a bully but gentle, not quarrelsome, not greedy.

And don’t get drunk with wine, which leads to reckless living, but be filled by the Spirit:

No priest may drink wine before he enters the inner court.

When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself to preaching the word and testified to the Jews that Jesus is the Messiah.