²³ No longer drink only water, but take a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.

⁴ For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, provided it is received with thanksgiving,^(A)

Qualifications of Deacons

⁸ Deacons likewise must be serious, not double-tongued, not indulging in much wine, not greedy for money;^(A)

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)

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)

³ not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, and not a lover of money.^(A)

¹⁸ Do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,^(A)

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