drink
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1It is a luxurious thing, wine, and inebriation is tumultuous. Anyone who is delighted by this will not be wise.
23Do not continue to drink only water, but make use of a little wine, for the sake of your stomach and your frequent infirmities.
18And do not choose to be inebriated by wine, for this is self-indulgence. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit,
31Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever else you may do, do everything for the glory of God.
11Woe to you who rise up in the morning to pursue drunkenness, and to drink even until evening, so as to be inflamed with wine.
21It is good to refrain from eating meat and from drinking wine, and from anything by which your brother is offended, or led astray, or weakened.
22Woe to you who are powerful at drinking wine, who are strong men in contriving inebriation!
21envy, murder, inebriation, carousing, and similar things. About these things, I continue to preach to you, as I have preached to you: that those who act in this way shall not obtain the kingdom of God.
13Let us walk honestly, as in the daylight, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in promiscuity and sexual immorality, not in contention and envy.
8Similarly, deacons must be chaste, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not pursuing tainted profit,
7So then, go and eat your bread with rejoicing, and drink your wine with gladness. For your works are pleasing to God.
7Yet truly, these also have been ignorant due to wine, and they have gone astray due to inebriation. The priest and the prophet have been ignorant because of inebriation. They have been absorbed by wine. They have staggered in drunkenness. They have not known the One who sees. They have been ignorant of judgment.