You shall not drink wine nor strong drink, you and your sons with you, whenever you enter into the tabernacle of witness, or when you approach the altar, so shall you not die; [it is] a perpetual statute for your generations,

She shall eat of nothing that comes of the vine yielding wine, and let her not drink wine or strong liquor, and let her not eat anything unclean: all things that I have charged her she shall observe.

Princes are prone to anger: let them then not drink wine:

lest they drink, and forget wisdom, and not be able to judge the poor rightly.

But they said, We will by no means drink wine, for our father Jonadab the son of Rechab commanded us, saying, You shall by no means drink wine, [neither] you, nor your sons, forever.

And we hearkened to the voice of Jonadab our father, so as to drink no wine all our days, we, and our wives, and our sons, and our daughters;

But you gave the consecrated ones wine to drink, and you commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.

For he shall be great before the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink. He will also be filled with the Holy Spirit, while still in his mother's womb.

"For John the Baptist has come neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, 'He has a demon.'

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, 'Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!'

"But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and worries of life, and that Day come upon you unexpectedly.

And do not get drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit,

Abstain from every form of evil.

No longer drink water [only], but use a little wine on account of your stomach, and your frequent illnesses.