drinking wine

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

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

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

⁷So then, go and eat your bread with rejoicing, and drink your wine with gladness. For your works are pleasing to God.

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.

¹⁴producing grass for cattle and herbs for the service of men. So may you draw bread from the earth, ¹⁵and wine, in order to cheer the heart of man. Then he may gladden his face with oil, and bread will confirm the heart of man.

⁸Similarly, deacons must be chaste, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not pursuing tainted profit,

¹⁹Now the works of the flesh are manifest; they are: fornication, lust, homosexuality, self-indulgence, ²⁰the serving of idols, drug use, hostility, contentiousness, jealousy, wrath, quarrels, dissensions, divisions, 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.

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.

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

³⁴But be attentive to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts may be weighed down by self-indulgence and inebriation and the cares of this life. And then that day may overwhelm you suddenly.

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

⁴Not to kings, O Lamuel, not to kings give wine. For there are no secrets where drunkenness reigns.

²⁹Who has woe? Whose father has woe? Who has quarrels? Who falls into pits? Who has wounds without cause? Who has watery eyes? ³⁰Is it not those who linger over wine, and who strive to be drinking from their cups? ³¹Do not gaze into the wine when it turns gold, when its color shines in the glass. It enters pleasantly, ³²but in the end, it will bite like a snake, and it will spread poison like a king of snakes. ³³Your eyes will see women who are outsiders, and your heart will utter perversities. ³⁴And you will be like someone sleeping in the middle of the sea, and like a pilot, fast asleep, who has lost his hold on the helm.

³Old women, similarly, should be in holy attire, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teaching well,