1 Timothy 5:23

James Moffatt - New Testament

[Give up being a total abstainer; take a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent attacks of illness.]

Cross References

1 Timothy 4:4

Anything God has created is good, and nothing is to be tabooed — provided it is eaten with thanksgiving,

1 Timothy 3:8

Deacons in turn are to be serious men; they are not to be tale-bearers or addicted to drink or pilfering;

Titus 2:3

Tell the older women also to be reverent in their demeanour and not to be slanderers or slaves to drink;

Titus 1:7

[For a bishop must be above reproach — he is a steward of God's house — he must not be presumptuous or hot-tempered or a drunkard or violent or addicted to pilfering;

1 Timothy 3:3

not a drunkard or violent, but lenient and conciliatory, not a lover of money,

Ephesians 5:18

and do not get drunk with wine — that means profligacy — but be filled with the Spirit,

Acts 18:5

By the time Silas and Timotheus came south from Macedonia, Paul was engrossed in this preaching of the word, arguing to the Jews that the messiah was Jesus.