“Drink no wine or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the tent of meeting, lest you die. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.
for he will be great before the Lord. And he must not drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.
not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.
For an overseer, as God's steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain,
And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,
No priest shall drink wine when he enters the inner court.
These also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed by wine, they stagger with strong drink, they reel in vision, they stumble in giving judgment.
Deacons likewise must be dignified, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for dishonest gain.
he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar made from wine or strong drink and shall not drink any juice of grapes or eat grapes, fresh or dried.
(No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.)
whoredom, wine, and new wine, which take away the understanding.
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink, lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.
and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the Lord. They are a holy portion for the priest, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is contributed. And after that the Nazirite may drink wine.
Then I set before the Rechabites pitchers full of wine, and cups, and I said to them, “Drink wine.” But they answered, “We will drink no wine, for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, ‘You shall not drink wine, neither you nor your sons forever.
It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood.”
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