²³ Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake and your frequent infirmities.

⁸ Deacons{The word for "deacons" literally means "servants."}, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money;

¹⁵ Wine that makes glad the heart of man, Oil to make his face to shine, And bread that strengthens man's heart.

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

⁷ For the overseer must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

³ not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

¹⁸ Don't be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

⁴ It is not for kings, 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 anyone who is afflicted.

⁶ Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish; And wine to 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 is 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, you, nor your sons with you, when you go into the Tent of Meeting, that you don't die: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations:

¹⁰ and that you are to make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean;

¹¹ and that you are to teach the children of Israel all the statutes which Yahweh has spoken to them by Moses."