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.

³ Not quickly moved to wrath or blows, but gentle; no fighter, no lover of money;

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.

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;

¹⁸ And do not take overmuch wine by which one may be overcome, but be full of the Spirit;

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

⁷ And further, these are uncertain through wine, and have gone out of the right way through strong drink: the priest and the prophet are uncertain through strong drink, they are overcome by wine, they have gone out of the way through strong drink; their vision is false, they go wrong in their decisions.

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;

³ He is to keep himself from wine and strong drink, and take no mixed wine or strong drink or any drink made from grapes, or any grapes, green or dry.

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.

¹¹ Loose ways and new wine take away wisdom.

⁴ It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to take wine, or for rulers to say, Where is strong drink?

⁵ For fear that through drinking they may come to have no respect for the law, wrongly judging the cause of those who are in trouble.

¹ Wine makes men foolish, and strong drink makes men come to blows; and whoever comes into error through these is not wise.

²⁰ Waving them for a wave offering before the Lord; this is holy for the priest, together with the waved breast and the leg which is lifted up; after that, the man may take wine.

⁵ And I put before the sons of the Rechabites basins full of wine and cups, and I said to them, Take some wine.

⁶ But they said, We will take no wine: for Jonadab, the son of Rechab our father, gave us orders, saying, You are to take no wine, you or your sons, for ever:

¹⁷ Let it be an order for ever, through all your generations, in all your houses, that you are not to take fat or blood for food.