Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities.
Parallel translations
- KJV Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.
- BSB Stop drinking only water and use a little wine instead, because of your stomach and your frequent ailments.
- NKJV No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities.
- NASB Do not go on drinking only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.
- NLT 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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- Ps 104:15wine that makes glad the heart of man, oil to make his face to shine, and bread that strengthens man’s heart.
- Prov 31:4–7It is not for kings, Lemuel; it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes to say, ‘Where is strong drink?’
- 1 Tim 4:4For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.
- 1 Tim 3:3not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;
- 1 Tim 3:8Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money;
- Lev 10:9–11“You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or you will die. This shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.
- Ezek 44:21Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
- Titus 2:3and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;
- Titus 1:7For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward; not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;
- Eph 5:18Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,
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