1 Timothy 5:23 “Stop drinking only water and use a little wine instead, because of you…”

1 Timothy 5:23

Stop drinking only water and use a little wine instead, because of your stomach and your frequent ailments.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.

World English Bible

Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities.

American Standard Version

Be no longer a drinker of water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.

Geneva Bible 1599

Drinke no longer water, but vse a litle wine for thy stomakes sake, and thine often infirmities.

Darby Translation

Drink no longer only water, but use a little wine on account of thy stomach and thy frequent illnesses.

Young's Literal Translation

no longer be drinking water, but a little wine be using, because of thy stomach and of thine often infirmities;

Bible in Basic English

Do not take only water as your drink, but take a little wine for the good of your stomach, and because you are frequently ill.

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Cross references

“Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.”

Psalm 104:15 Proverbs 31:4–7 1 Timothy 4:4 1 Timothy 3:3 Leviticus 10:9–11 Ezekiel 44:21

Psalm 104:15 · BSB

wine that gladdens the heart of man, oil that makes his face to shine, and bread that sustains his heart.

Proverbs 31:4–7 · BSB

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to crave strong drink,

1 Timothy 4:4 · BSB

For every creation of God is good, and nothing that is received with thanksgiving should be rejected,

1 Timothy 3:3 · BSB

not dependent on wine, not violent but gentle, peaceable, and free of the love of money.

Leviticus 10:9–11 · BSB

“You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink when you enter the Tent of Meeting, or else you will die; this is a permanent statute for the generations to come.

Ezekiel 44:21 · BSB

No priest may drink wine before he enters the inner court.

Also

1 Timothy 3:8

1 Timothy 3:8 · BSB

Deacons likewise must be dignified, not double-tongued or given to much wine or greedy for money.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

22Do not be too quick in the laying on of hands and thereby share in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure.

24The sins of some men are obvious, going ahead of them to judgment; but the sins of others do not surface until later.

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