1 Timothy 5:23
Good News Translation
Do not drink water only, but take a little wine to help your digestion, since you are sick so often.

New Revised Standard Version
No longer drink only water, but take a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.

Contemporary English Version
Stop drinking only water. Take a little wine to help your stomach trouble and the other illnesses you often have.

New American Bible
Stop drinking only water, but have a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent illnesses.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Do not still drink water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thy frequent infirmities.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Do not still drink water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thy frequent infirmities.

1 Timothy 3:3 Not given to wine, no striker, but modest, not quarrelsome, not covetous, but

1 Timothy 4:4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be rejected that is received with thanksgiving:

Leviticus 10:9-11 You shall not drink wine nor any thing that may make drunk, thou nor thy sons, when you enter into the tabernacle of the testimony, lest you die. Because it is an everlasting precept; through your generations: . . .

Psalm 104:15 And that wine may cheer the heart of man. That he may make the face cheerful with oil: and that bread may strengthen man's heart.

Proverbs 31:4-7 Give not to kings, O Lamuel, give not wine to kings: because there is no secret where drunkenness reigneth: . . .

Ezekiel 44:21 And no priest shall drink wine when he is to go into the inner court.

Ephesians 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is luxury: but be ye filled with the Holy Spirit,

Titus 1:7 For a bishop must be without crime, as the steward of God: not proud, not subject to anger, nor given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre:

Titus 2:3 The aged women, in like manner, in holy attire, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teaching well:

Context
A Charge to Timothy
22Impose not hands lightly upon any man, neither be partaker of other men's sins. Keep thyself chaste. 23Do not still drink water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thy frequent infirmities. 24Some men's sins are manifest, going before to judgment: and some men they follow after.…
Cross References
Acts 18:5
And when Silas and Timothy were come from Macedonia, Paul was earnest in preaching, testifying to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.

1 Timothy 3:8
Deacons in like manner: chaste, not double tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre:

1 Timothy 5:22
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