1 Timothy 5:23
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.
KJV
μηκέτι ὑδροπότει, ἀλλὰ οἴνῳ ὀλίγῳ χρῶ διὰ τὸν στόμαχον καὶ τὰς πυκνάς σου ἀσθενείας.
Greek NT
Noli adhuc aquam bibere, sed modico vino utere propter stomachum tuum, et frequentes tuas infirmitates.
Vulgate
Be no longer a drinker of water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.
ASV
Do not still drink water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thy frequent infirmities.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
διά
dia
preposition · 633×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
μηκέτι
meketi
adverb · 23×
οἶνος
oinos
noun · 34×
πυκνός
puknos
adjective · 4×
στόμαχος
stomachos
noun · 1×
σύ
su
pronoun · 1071×
χράομαι
chraomai
verb · 11×
ἀλλά
alla
conjunction · 636×
ἀσθένεια
astheneia
noun · 24×
ὀλίγος
oligos
adjective · 41×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὑδροποτέω
udropoteo
verb · 1×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
notable
SBLGNT: στόμαχον | WH/Treg/NIV: στόμαχον | RP: + σου
- στόμαχον — SBLGNT
- στόμαχον — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + σου — Robinson-Pierpont
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Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
2. And not for this only does He call him Elias everywhere, but to signify His perfect agreement with the Old Testament, and that this advent too is according to prophecy. Wherefore also He adds again, He came, and they knew him not, but have done unto him all things whatsoever they listed. Matthew 17:12 What means, all things whatsoever they listed? They cast him into prison, …
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210224.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
Cross-references
- 1Tim 3:3 — Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
- 1Tim 3:8 — Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
- 1Tim 3:8 — Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
- 1Tim 4:4 — For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
- Acts 27:34 — Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.
- Eph 5:18 — And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
- Ezek 44:21 — Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
- Lev 10:9 — Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:
- Lev 10:9 — Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:
- Num 6:3 — He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.
- Prov 31:4 — It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:
- Prov 31:6 — Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.
- Ps 104:15 — And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man’s heart.
- Titus 1:7 — For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
- Titus 2:3 — The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;