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

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

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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Cross References

Psalms 104:15wine that gladdens the heart of man, oil that makes his face to shine, and bread that sustains his heart.

Ezekiel 44:21No priest may drink wine before he enters the inner court.

1 Timothy 3:3not dependent on wine, not violent but gentle, peaceable, and free of the love of money.

1 Timothy 4:4For every creation of God is good, and nothing that is received with thanksgiving should be rejected,

Titus 2:3Older women, likewise, are to be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers or addicted to much wine, but teachers of good.

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 →

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