Verse 23

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

Referenced Verses

• Ps 104:15 : 15 as well as wine that makes people feel so good, and so they can have oil to make their faces shine, as well as food that sustains people’s lives.
• 1 Tim 3:8 : 8 Deacons likewise must be dignified, not two-faced, not given to excessive drinking, not greedy for gain,
• Titus 1:7 : 7 For the overseer must be blameless as one entrusted with God’s work, not arrogant, not prone to anger, not a drunkard, not violent, not greedy for gain.
• Titus 2:3 : 3 Older women likewise are to exhibit behavior fitting for those who are holy, not slandering, not slaves to excessive drinking, but teaching what is good.
• Prov 31:4-7 : 4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to crave strong drink, 5 lest they drink and forget what is decreed, and remove from all the poor their legal rights. 6 Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those who are bitterly distressed; 7 let them drink and forget their poverty, and remember their misery no more.
• Eph 5:18 : 18 And do not get drunk with wine, which is debauchery, but be filled by the Spirit,
• 1 Tim 3:3 : 3 not a drunkard, not violent, but gentle, not contentious, free from the love of money.
• Ezek 44:21 : 21 No priest may drink wine when he enters the inner court.
• 1 Tim 4:4 : 4 For every creation of God is good and no food is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving.
• Lev 10:9-9 : 9 “Do not drink wine or strong drink, you and your sons with you, when you enter into the Meeting Tent, so that you do not die, which is a perpetual statute throughout your generations, 10 as well as to distinguish between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean, 11 and to teach the Israelites all the statutes that the LORD has spoken to them through Moses.”