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

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

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

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,

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,

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

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

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

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