23Stop drinking only water, and use a little wine because of your stomach and your frequent illnesses.


In Context

20 Those who sin are to be rebuked publicly, so that the others may take warning.

21 I charge you, in the sight of God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels, to keep these instructions without partiality, and to do nothing out of favoritism.

22 Do not be hasty in the laying on of hands, and do not share in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure.

23 Stop drinking only water, and use a little wine because of your stomach and your frequent illnesses.

24 The sins of some men are obvious, reaching the place of judgment ahead of them; the sins of others trail behind them.

25 In the same way, good deeds are obvious, and even those that are not cannot be hidden.

1st Timothy 5:23 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:23Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:23Do not still drink water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake, and thy frequent infirmities.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:23Be no longer a drinker of water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:23Drink no longer only water, but use a little wine on account of thy stomach and thy frequent illnesses.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:23Be no longer a drinker of water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:23Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake, and thy frequent infirmities.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:23Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake and your frequent infirmities.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:23no longer be drinking water, but a little wine be using, because of thy stomach and of thine often infirmities;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:23Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake and your often infirmities.