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¹It is a luxurious thing, wine, and inebriation is tumultuous. Anyone who is delighted by this will not be wise.

¹⁹Or do you not know that your bodies are the Temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?

⁹“You shall not drink wine, nor anything that is able to inebriate you or your sons, when you enter into the tabernacle of the testimony, lest you die. For it is an everlasting precept in your generations.

²²Woe to you who are powerful at drinking wine, who are strong men in contriving inebriation!

¹⁹Or do you not know that your bodies are the Temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? ²⁰For you have been bought at a great price. Glorify and carry God in your body.

¹⁰nor the effeminate, nor males who sleep with males, nor thieves, nor the avaricious, nor the inebriated, nor slanderers, nor the rapacious shall possess the kingdom 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.

²¹For you have been called to this because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, so that you would follow in his footsteps.

⁷But the end of everything draws near. And so, be prudent, and be vigilant in your prayers.

²⁶For if we sin willingly, after receiving knowledge of the truth, there is no sacrifice remaining for sins,

¹And so, I beg you, brothers, by the mercy of God, that you offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, with the subservience of your mind.

¹And on the third day, a wedding was held in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. ²Now Jesus was also invited to the wedding, with his disciples. ³And when the wine was failing, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” ⁴And Jesus said to her: “What is that to me and to you, woman? My hour has not yet arrived.” ⁵His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” ⁶Now in that place, there were six stone water jars, for the purification ritual of the Jews, containing two or three measures each.

¹⁸And do not choose to be inebriated by wine, for this is self-indulgence. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit,

⁸For whatever a man will have sown, that also shall he reap. For whoever sows in his flesh, from the flesh he shall also reap corruption. But whoever sows in the Spirit, from the Spirit he shall reap eternal life.

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.

¹⁵Woe to anyone who gives a drink to a friend, releasing a drug and inebriating, so as to look upon their nakedness.

¹⁵For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will not drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

²³Do not continue to drink only water, but make use of a little wine, for the sake of your stomach and your frequent infirmities.

⁴⁴You are of your father, the devil. And you will carry out the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning. And he did not stand in the truth, because the truth is not in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks it from his own self. For he is a liar, and the father of lies.

⁶Give strong drink to the grieving, and wine to those who are bitter in soul.

²⁰For you have been bought at a great price. Glorify and carry God in your body.

⁶Give strong drink to the grieving, and wine to those who are bitter in soul. ⁷Let them drink, and forget their needs, and remember their sorrow no more.