1 Timothy 5:23 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

Stop drinking only water. Instead, drink a little wine for your stomach because you are frequently sick.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

Do not take only water as your drink, but take a little wine for the good of your stomach, and because you are frequently ill.

DBY:

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

ERV:

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

WEY:

WBS:

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

WEB:

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

YLT:

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

1 Timothy 5:23 Cross References

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Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

5:23 {19} Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
(19) The sixth rule: let the elders have consideration for their health, in their diet.

PNT:

5:23 Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake. I suppose the thought of Timothy's trials called to mind a sense of his physical condition. Hence, he gives a medical prescription. The water of that region is not good. The writer well remembers a fearfully sick day that he passed at Ephesus in 1889, due to the water. Paul, hence, advises that instead, he try the light wines, with only the smallest percentage of alcohol.
And thine often infirmities. The prescription is not of a beverage, but of a remedy for an invalid.

MHC:

5:17-25 Care must be taken that ministers are maintained. And those who are laborious in this work are worthy of double honour and esteem. It is their just due, as much as the reward of the labourer. The apostle charges Timothy solemnly to guard against partiality. We have great need to watch at all times, that we do not partake of other men's sins. Keep thyself pure, not only from doing the like thyself, but from countenancing it, or any way helping to it in others. The apostle also charges Timothy to take care of his health. As we are not to make our bodies masters, so neither slaves; but to use them so that they may be most helpful to us in the service of God. There are secret, and there are open sins: some men's sins are open before-hand, and going before unto judgment; some they follow after. God will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make known the counsels of all hearts. Looking forward to the judgment-day, let us all attend to our proper offices, whether in higher or lower stations, studying that the name and doctrine of God may never be blasphemed on our account.

CONC:

Account Ailments Drink Drinker Drinking Exclusively Frequent Frequently Ill Illnesses Infirmities Longer Often Sake Stomach Stomach's Using Wine

Ailments Drink Drinker Drinking Exclusively Frequent Frequently Good Ill Illnesses Infirmities Longer Often Sake Stomach Stop Use Using Water Wine

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