1 Timothy 5:23
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23 No longer drink only water, but take a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.
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Psalm 104:15
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15 and wine to gladden the human heart,
oil to make the face shine
and bread to strengthen the human heart.(A)
1 Timothy 4:4
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4 For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, provided it is received with thanksgiving,(A)
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Proverbs 31:4-7
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4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel,
it is not for kings to drink wine
or for rulers to desire[a] strong drink,(A)
5 lest they drink and forget what has been decreed
and pervert the rights of all the afflicted.
6 Give strong drink to one who is perishing
and wine to those in bitter distress;
7 let them drink and forget their poverty
and remember their misery no more.
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- 31.4 Cn: Heb where
1 Timothy 3:8
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Qualifications of Deacons
8 Deacons likewise must be serious, not double-tongued, not indulging in much wine, not greedy for money;(A)
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Titus 2:3
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3 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,(A)
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Titus 1:7
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7 For a bishop,[a] 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,(A)
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- 1.7 Or an overseer
1 Timothy 3:3
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3 not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, and not a lover of money.(A)
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Ephesians 5:18
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18 Do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,(A)
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Ezekiel 44:21
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21 No priest shall drink wine when he enters the inner court.(A)
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Leviticus 10:9-11
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9 “Drink no wine or strong drink, neither you nor your sons, when you enter the tent of meeting, that you may not die; it is a statute forever throughout your generations.(A) 10 You are to distinguish between the holy and the common and between the unclean and the clean,(B) 11 and you are to teach the Israelites all the statutes that the Lord has spoken to them through Moses.”(C)
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