Verse 23

Drinke no longer water, but vse a litle wine for thy stomackes sake & thine often diseases.

Referenced Verses

• Ps 104:15 : 15 That he may bryng foorth foode out of the earth: both wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oyle to make hym haue a chearefull countenaunce, & also bread to strengthen mans heart.
• 1 Tim 3:8 : 8 Likewise must ye ministers be graue, not double tongued, not geuen to much wine, neither greedy of fylthy lucre:
• Titus 1:7 : 7 For a bishop must be blamelesse, as the stewarde of God: not stubborne, not angry, not geuen to wyne, no striker, not geuen to filthie lucre:
• Titus 2:3 : 3 The elder women lykewyse, that they be in such behauiour as becometh holynesse, not false accusers, not geuen to much wine, teachers of good thinges,
• Prov 31:4-7 : 4 O Lamuel, it is not for kynges, it is not I say for kynges to drynke wine, nor princes strong drynke. 5 Lest they by drnkyng forget the lawe, and peruert the iudgement of all poore mens children. 6 Geue strong drynke vnto such as are redy to perishe, and wine vnto those that mourne: 7 That they may drynke it, and forget their miserie and aduersitie.
• Eph 5:18 : 18 And be not drunke with wine, wherin is excesse: but be fylled with the spirite,
• 1 Tim 3:3 : 3 Not geuen to ouermuch wine, no striker, not greedy of fylthy lucre: but gentle, abhorryng fyghtyng, abhorryng couetousnesse:
• Ezek 44:21 : 21 Al the priestes that go into the inmost court shal drinke no wine.
• 1 Tim 4:4 : 4 For euery creature of God is good, and nothyng to be refused, yf it be receaued with thankes geuyng.
• Lev 10:9-9 : 9 Thou shalt not drinke wine nor strong drinke, thou nor thy sonnes that are with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye dye: Let it be a lawe for euer throughout your generations. 10 And that ye may put difference betweene holy and vnholy, betweene vncleane and cleane: 11 And that ye may teache the chyldren of Israel all the statutes whiche the Lorde hath spoken vnto them by the handes of Moyses.