Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake and your often infirmities. Treasury of Scripture 1 Timothy 3:3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; 1 Timothy 4:4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: Leviticus 10:9-11 Do not drink wine nor strong drink, you, nor your sons with you, when you go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest you die... Psalm 104:15 And wine that makes glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengthens man's heart. Proverbs 31:4-7 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink... Ezekiel 44:21 Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court. Ephesians 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; Titus 1:7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker... Titus 2:3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behavior as becomes holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine...
Context A Charge to Timothy
21I charge you before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that you observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality. 22Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep yourself pure. 23Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake and your often infirmities. 24Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and some men they follow after. 25Likewise also the good works of some are manifest beforehand; and they that are otherwise cannot be hid. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
Be no longer a drinker of water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Do not still drink water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake, and thy frequent infirmities.
Darby Bible Translation
Drink no longer only water, but use a little wine on account of thy stomach and thy frequent illnesses.
King James Bible
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
Young's Literal Translation
no longer be drinking water, but a little wine be using, because of thy stomach and of thine often infirmities;
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