²³ No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent ^[a]infirmities.

⁴ For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving;

Qualifications of Deacons

⁸ Likewise deacons must be reverent, not double-tongued, ^(A)not given to much wine, not greedy for money,

³ the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things—

⁷ For a ^[a]bishop must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, ^(A)not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money,

³ not ^[a]given to wine, not violent, ^[b]not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not ^[c]covetous;

¹⁸ And ^(A)do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit,

^21 (A)No priest shall drink wine when he enters the inner court.