Do not drink wine nor strong drink, you, nor your sons with you, when you go into the tabernacle of meeting, lest you die: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations:

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

Likewise must the deacons be grave, not double tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of dishonest gain;

Drink no longer water only, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake and your frequent illnesses.

For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, not violent, not given to dishonest gain;

But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good, sensible, just, holy, temperate;