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23 Don’t drink only water. You ought to drink a little wine for the sake of your stomach because you are sick so often.

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23 (Stop drinking just water, but use a little wine for your digestion[a] and your frequent illnesses.)[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Timothy 5:23 tn Grk “for the sake of your stomach.”
  2. 1 Timothy 5:23 sn This verse gives parenthetical advice to Timothy, to clarify what it means to keep pure (5:22c). Verse 24 resumes the instructions about elders.