Temperate

Wine <FI>is<Fi> a scorner--strong drink <FI>is<Fi> noisy, And any going astray in it is not wise.

Not for kings, O Lemuel, Not for kings, to drink wine, And for princes a desire of strong drink.

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, the reign of God shall inherit.

and ye <FI>are<Fi> a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;

aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers,

and every one who is striving, is in all things temperate; these, indeed, then, that a corruptible crown they may receive, but we an incorruptible;

aged men to be temperate, grave, sober, sound in the faith, in the love, in the endurance; — read the full passage →

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,

for ye were as sheep going astray, but ye turned back now to the shepherd and overseer of your souls.

aged men to be temperate, grave, sober, sound in the faith, in the love, in the endurance;

And even these through wine have erred, And through strong drink have wandered, Priest and prophet erred through strong drink, They have been swallowed up of the wine, They wandered because of the strong drink, They have erred in seeing, They have stumbled judicially.

if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate--

Women--in like manner grave, not false accusers, vigilant, faithful in all things.

and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,

Woe <FI>to<Fi> the mighty to drink wine, And men of strength to mingle strong drink.

And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.

And of all things the end hath come nigh; be sober-minded, then, and watch unto the prayers,

since it had behoved him many times to suffer from the foundation of the world, but now once, at the full end of the ages, for putting away of sin through his sacrifice, he hath been manifested;

Ministrants--in like manner grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not given to filthy lucre,

Stedfast <FI>is<Fi> the word: If any one the oversight doth long for, a right work he desireth; — read the full passage →

Paul and Timotheus, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, with overseers and ministrants;

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own,

`Judge not, that ye may not be judged, — read the full passage →

And Daniel purposeth in his heart that he will not pollute himself with the king's portion of food, and with the wine of his drinking, and he seeketh of the chief of the eunuchs that he may not pollute himself.

See not wine when it showeth itself red, When it giveth in the cup its colour, It goeth up and down through the upright.

O the happiness of those keeping His testimonies, With the whole heart they seek Him.

and the anger of God burneth because he is going, and a messenger of Jehovah stationeth himself in the way for an adversary to him, and he is riding on his ass, and two of his servants <FI>are<Fi> with him,

`Wine and strong drink thou dost not drink, thou, and thy sons with thee, in your going in unto the tent of meeting, and ye die not--a statute age-during to your generations;

and didst make us to our God kings and priests, and we shall reign upon the earth.'

Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;

beloved, now, children of God are we, and it was not yet manifested what we shall be, and we have known that if he may be manifested, like him we shall be, because we shall see him as he is;

because all that <FI>is<Fi> in the world--the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life--is not of the Father, but of the world,

and the Lord God sanctify in your hearts. And <FI>be<Fi> ready always for defence to every one who is asking of you an account concerning the hope that <FI>is<Fi> in you, with meekness and fear;

Seeing, then, the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he himself also in like manner did take part of the same, that through death he might destroy him having the power of death--that is, the devil--

saying, `I will declare Thy name to my brethren, in the midst of an assembly I will sing praise to Thee;' and again, `I will be trusting on Him;'

all things, indeed, <FI>are<Fi> pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast <FI>is<Fi> nothing pure, but of them defiled <FI>are<Fi> even the mind and the conscience;

For this cause left I thee in Crete, that the things lacking thou mayest arrange, and mayest set down in every city elders, as I did appoint to thee;

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness, — read the full passage →

And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times, — read the full passage →

taking remembrance of the unfeigned faith that is in thee, that dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice, and I am persuaded that also in thee.

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

A widow--let her not be enrolled under sixty years of age, having been a wife of one husband,

An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren; — read the full passage →

all things prove; that which is good hold fast;

the things above mind ye, not the things upon the earth,

because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ <FI>is<Fi> head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.

And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete; — read the full passage →

in whom the god of this age did blind the minds of the unbelieving, that there doth not shine forth to them the enlightening of the good news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God;

for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God--

`Ye are of a father--the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar--also his father.

`And if that servant may say in his heart, My lord doth delay to come, and may begin to beat the men-servants and the maid-servants, to eat also, and to drink, and to be drunken;

and he having turned, said to Peter, `Get thee behind me, adversary! thou art a stumbling-block to me, for thou dost not mind the things of God, but the things of men.'

And no priest doth drink wine in their coming in unto the inner court.

Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up, — read the full passage →

and ye yourselves, as living stones, are built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

but not in all men <FI>is<Fi> the knowledge, and certain with conscience of the idol, till now, as a thing sacrificed to an idol do eat <FI>it<Fi> , and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. — read the full passage →

if any one the sanctuary of God doth waste, him shall God waste; for the sanctuary of God is holy, the which ye are.

And I commend you to Phebe our sister--being a ministrant of the assembly that <FI>is<Fi> in Cenchrea--

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings; — read the full passage →

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

Having been declared righteous, then, by faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →

`Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood,

And from Miletus, having sent to Ephesus, he called for the elders of the assembly,

And after the ceasing of the tumult, Paul having called near the disciples, and having embraced <FI>them<Fi> , went forth to go on to Macedonia; — read the full passage →

And it shall be in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;

`The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have <FI>it<Fi> abundantly.

Jesus answered them, `Did not I choose you--the twelve? and of you--one is a devil.

and he said to them, `I was beholding the Adversary, as lightning from the heaven having fallen;

And when the days of their purification were fulfilled, according to the law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem, to present to the Lord, — read the full passage →

`And ye--ye may not be called Rabbi, for one is your director--the Christ, and all ye are brethren;

He saith to them--`Moses for your stiffness of heart did suffer you to put away your wives, but from the beginning it hath not been so.

From that time began Jesus to shew to his disciples that it is necessary for him to go away to Jerusalem, and to suffer many things from the elders, and chief priests, and scribes, and to be put to death, and the third day to rise.

And the Pharisees and Sadducees having come, tempting, did question him, to shew to them a sign from the heaven, — read the full passage →

and the enemy who sowed them is the devil, and the harvest is a full end of the age, and the reapers are messengers.

`Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad, for from the fruit is the tree known. — read the full passage →

`Nor do they put new wine into old skins, and if not--the skins burst, and the wine doth run out, and the skins are destroyed, but they put new wine into new skins, and both are preserved together.'

`But, take heed of the false prophets, who come unto you in sheep's clothing, and inwardly are ravening wolves. — read the full passage →

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

A day of our king! Princes have polluted themselves <FI>with<Fi> the poison of wine, He hath drawn out his hand with scorners.

Whoredom, and wine, and new wine, take the heart,

Cut off have been My people for lack of knowledge, Because thou knowledge hast rejected, I reject thee from being priest to Me, And thou forgettest the law of thy God, I forget thy sons, I also!

and against the Lord of the heavens thou hast lifted up thyself; and the vessels of His house they have brought in before thee, and thou, and thy great men, thy wives, and thy concubines, are drinking wine with them, and gods of silver, and of gold, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone, that are not seeing, nor hearing, nor knowing, thou hast praised: and the God in whose hand <FI>is<Fi> thy breath, and all thy ways, Him thou hast not honoured.

And the king doth appoint for them a rate, day by day, of the king's portion of food, and of the wine of his drinking, so as to nourish them three years, that at the end thereof they may stand before the king.

Performed have been the words of Jonadab son of Rechab, when he commanded his sons not to drink wine, and they have not drunk unto this day, for they have obeyed the command of their father; and I--I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking, and ye have not hearkened unto Me.

And I see when (for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery) I have sent her away, and I give the bill of her divorce unto her, that treacherous Judah her sister hath not feared, and goeth and committeth fornication--she also.

Wolf and lamb do feed as one, And a lion as an ox eateth straw, As to the serpent--dust <FI>is<Fi> its food, They do no evil, nor destroy, In all My holy mountain, said Jehovah!

Thus said Jehovah: As the new wine is found in the cluster, And one hath said, `Destroy it not for a blessing <FI>is<Fi> in it,' So I do for My servants' sake, not to destroy the whole.

I am saying to the north, `Give up,' And to the south, `Restrain not.' Bring in My sons from afar, And My daughters from the end of the earth. — read the full passage →

Woe <FI>to<Fi> the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim. And the fading flower of the beauty of his glory, That <FI>is<Fi> on the head of the fat valley of the broken down of wine.

With a song they drink not wine, Bitter is strong drink to those drinking it.

And a wolf hath sojourned with a lamb, And a leopard with a kid doth lie down, And calf, and young lion, and fatling <FI>are<Fi> together, And a little youth is leader over them.

Woe <FI>to<Fi> those rising early in the morning, Strong drink they pursue! Tarrying in twilight, wine inflameth them!

Come, I pray you, and we reason, saith Jehovah, If your sins are as scarlet, as snow they shall be white, If they are red as crimson, as wool they shall be!

I have sought in my heart to draw out with wine my appetite, (and my heart leading in wisdom), and to take hold on folly till that I see where <FI>is<Fi> this--the good to the sons of man of that which they do under the heavens, the number of the days of their lives.

Lest he drink, and forget the decree, And change the judgment of any of the sons of affliction.

A rod and reproof give wisdom, And a youth let away is shaming his mother.