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1 Timothy 5:23

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5:23(Stop drinking just water, but use a little wine for your digestion43 and your frequent illnesses.)44

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Footnotes

  1. 43 Grk “for the sake of your stomach.”
  2. 44 This verse gives parenthetical advice to Timothy, to clarify what it means to keep pure (5:22c). Verse 24 resumes the instructions about elders.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

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

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Don’t continue drinking only water, but use a little wine because of your stomach and your frequent illnesses.

NLTNew Living Translation

Don’t drink only water. You ought to drink a little wine for the sake of your stomach because you are sick so often.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

(No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for your stomach and your frequent illnesses.)

KJV 1900King James Version

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