1 Timothy 5:23 BSB — MannaFest

1 Timothy 5:23

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

BSB

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

3 voices

Ambrose of Milan

Letters 63.27 (397)

And is not temperance in harmony with nature and that divine law which in the beginning of all things gave the springs for drink and the fruits of trees for food? After the flood, the just man found wine a source of temptation to him. Let us, then, use the natural food of temperance, and would that we all could do so! But, because not all are strong, the apostle therefore says, "Use a little wine for your frequent infirmities."

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

Drink no longer water,.... Though it was commendable in him to keep under his body, as the apostle did, by abstemious living, and not pamper the flesh and encourage the lusts of it, and so preserve purity and chastity; yet it was proper that he should take care of his health, that it was not impaired by too much severity, and so he be incapable of doing the work of the Lord.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Drink no longer water - There has been much difficulty felt in regard to the connection which this advice has with what precedes and what follows. Many have considered the difficulty to be so great that they have supposed that this verse has been displaced, and that it should be introduced in some other connection.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

So ELLICOTT and WIESINGER. ALFORD thus: Timothy was of a feeble frame (see on 1Co 16:10, 11), and prone to timidity in his duties as overseer where vigorous action was needed; hence Paul exhorts him to take all proper means to raise his bodily condition above these infirmities.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
μηκέτι	mēketi	No longer	G3371 →
ὑδροπότει,	hudropotei	do drink [only] water,	G5202 →
ἀλλ᾽	all᾽	but	G235 →
οἴνῳ	oinō	wine	G3631 →
ὀλίγῳ	oligō	a little	G3641 →
χρῶ	chrō	do use	G5530 →
διὰ	dia	because of	G1223 →
τὸν	ton	the	G3588 →
στόμαχον	stomachon	stomach	G4751 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
τὰς	tas	the	G3588 →
πυκνάς	puknas	frequent	G4437 →
σου	sou	of you	G4771 →
ἀσθενείας.	astheneias	ailments.	G769 →

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Timothy 4:4
For every creation of God is good, and nothing that is received with thanksgiving should be rejected,
leads to
- Romans 14:20
  Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to let his eating be a stumbling block.
- 1 Corinthians 10:25
  Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,
- Romans 14:14
  I am convinced and fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean.
Through
Psalms 104:15
wine that gladdens the heart of man, oil that makes his face to shine, and bread that sustains his heart.
leads to
- Psalms 23:5
  You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
- Ecclesiastes 10:19
  A feast is prepared for laughter, and wine makes life merry, but money is the answer for everything.
- Ecclesiastes 9:7
  Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already approved your works:
Through
1 Timothy 3:3
not dependent on wine, not violent but gentle, peaceable, and free of the love of money.
leads to
- Ephesians 5:18
  Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Titus 1:7
  As God’s steward, an overseer must be above reproach—not self-absorbed, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not greedy for money.

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About 1 Timothy

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About 1 Timothy