wine
What does the Bible say about wine? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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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,
1It is a luxurious thing, wine, and inebriation is tumultuous. Anyone who is delighted by this will not be wise.
6Give strong drink to the grieving, and wine to those who are bitter in soul.
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.
6And the Lord of hosts will cause all the peoples on this mountain to feast on fatness, to feast on wine, a fatness full of marrow, a purified 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.
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.
3shall abstain from wine and from anything which is able to inebriate. They shall not drink vinegar made from wine or from any other drink, nor anything pressed from the grape. They shall not eat grapes, neither fresh nor dried.
3Old women, similarly, should be in holy attire, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teaching well,