Do not drink wine or strong drink, you, nor your sons with you, when you go into the tent of meeting, that you not die. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations,

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

Likewise deacons must be reverent, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy for money,

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

For an overseer must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed, not prone to anger, not given to wine, not quarrelsome, not greedy for money,

but hospitable, a lover of what is good, of a sound mind, just, holy, self-controlled,