The Stomach

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

A man’s stomach is filled with the fruit of his mouth. With the harvest of his lips he is satisfied.

Wine is a mocker, and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation.

He said to them, “Are you thus without understanding also? Don’t you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can’t defile him, — read the full passage →

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

Come, let’s make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s seed.” — read the full passage →

in all things showing yourself an example of good works; in your teaching showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,

“Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes? — read the full passage →

Thus says Yahweh, “As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, ‘Don’t destroy it, for a blessing is in it:’ so will I do for my servants’ sake, that I may not destroy them all.

“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

They will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it.

Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there will be no singing, neither joyful noise. Nobody will tread out wine in the presses. I have made the shouting stop.

Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish; and wine to the bitter in soul:

The cony, because he chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, he is unclean to you.

“You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or you will die. This shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.

I went to the angel, telling him to give me the little book. He said to me, “Take it, and eat it up. It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.”

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you. — read the full passage →

But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, “Why are you reasoning so in your hearts?

Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, — read the full passage →

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you? — read the full passage →

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.

He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may produce food out of the earth: — read the full passage →

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit the Kingdom of God.

Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy. — read the full passage →

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

but he said to me, ‘Behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.’”

he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of fermented drink, neither shall he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried.

Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them, — read the full passage →