²³ Be no longer a drinker of water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.

⁸ Deacons in like manner `must be' grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

¹⁵ And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, `And' oil to make his face to shine, And bread that strengtheneth man's heart.

³ that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

⁷ For the bishop must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, no brawler, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre;

³ no brawler, no striker; but gentle, not contentious, no lover of money;

¹⁸ And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit;

⁴ It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; Nor for princes `to say', Where is strong drink?

⁵ Lest they drink, and forget the law, And pervert the justice `due' to any that is afflicted.

⁶ Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, And wine unto the bitter in soul:

⁷ Let him drink, and forget his poverty, And remember his misery no more.

⁴ For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it be received with thanksgiving:

²¹ Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.

⁹ Drink no wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tent of meeting, that ye die not: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:

¹⁰ and that ye may make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean;

¹¹ and that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which Jehovah hath spoken unto them by Moses.