1 Timothy 5:23
Drink water no longer, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake, and your frequent infirmities.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.
In Context
22Lay hands hastily on no man, nor be partaker of other men’s sins: keep yourself pure.
Cross References
1 Timothy 3:3not fond of wine, not quarrelsome, not one who makes money by base means; but gentle, not contentious, not covetous;
1 Timothy 4:4For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it be received with thanksgiving;
Titus 2:3that the aged women likewise be, in deportment, as it becomes holy women, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of good things,
Matthew Henry on 1 Timothy 5:18-25
Directions Concerning Elders; Concerning Church Discipline. ( a. d. 64.) 17 Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine. 18 For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward. 19 Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses. 20 Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear. 21 I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus… Read the whole commentary →