²¹ The priests are not to take wine when they go into the inner square.

⁹ Take no wine, or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the Tent of meeting, that it may not be the cause of death to you; this is an order for ever through all your generations.

¹⁵ For he will be great in the eyes of the Lord; he will not take wine or strong drink; and he will be full of the Spirit of God from his birth.

⁸ Deacons, in the same way, are to be serious in their behaviour, not false in word, not given to taking much wine or greatly desiring the wealth of this world;

²³ Do not take only water as your drink, but take a little wine for the good of your stomach, and because you are frequently ill.

⁷ For it is necessary for a Bishop to be a man of virtue, as God's servant; not pushing himself forward, not quickly moved to wrath or blows, not desiring profit for himself;

⁸ But opening his house freely to guests; a lover of what is good, serious-minded, upright, holy, self-controlled;