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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself to preaching the word and testified to the Jews that Jesus is the Messiah.
And don’t get drunk with wine, which leads to reckless living, but be filled by the Spirit:
not an excessive drinker, not a bully but gentle, not quarrelsome, not greedy.
Deacons, likewise, should be worthy of respect, not hypocritical, not drinking a lot of wine, not greedy for money,
For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,
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,
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,