23 Drink no longer water, but use a little wine, for thy stomach's sake, and thine often diseases.
1 Timothy 5:23 Cross References - MSTC
Leviticus 10:9-11
9 "Drink no wine nor strong drink — neither thou nor thy sons with thee — when ye go into the tabernacle of witness, lest ye die. And let it be a law forever unto your children after you:
10 that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean,
11 and that ye may teach the children of Israel all the ordinances which the LORD hath commanded them by the hands of Moses."
Psalms 104:15
15 Thou bringest food out of the earth: wine to make glad the heart of man, oil to make him a cheerful countenance and bread to strengthen man's heart.
Proverbs 31:4-7
4 O Lemuel, give kings no wine, give kings and princes no strong drink;
5 Lest they being drunken forget the law, and regard not the cause of the poor, and of all such as be in adversity.
6 Give strong drink unto such as are condemned to death, and wine unto those that mourn:
7 that they may drink it, and forget their misery and adversity.
Ezekiel 44:21
21 All the priests that go in to the inmost court, shall drink no wine.
Ephesians 5:18
18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess: but be fulfilled with the spirit,
1 Timothy 3:3
3 not drunken, no fighter, not given to filthy lucre: but gentle, abhorring fighting, abhorring covetousness,
1 Timothy 3:8
8 Likewise must the deacons be honest, not double tongued, not given unto much drinking, neither unto filthy lucre:
1 Timothy 4:4
4 For all the creatures of God are good: and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
Titus 1:7
7 For a bishop must be faultless, as it becometh the minister of God; not stubborn, not angry, no drunkard, no fighter, not given to filthy lucre:
Titus 2:3
3 And the elder women likewise that they be in such raiment as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much drinking, but teachers of honest things,