1 Timothy 5:23
Modern Translations
New International Version
Stop drinking only water, and use a little wine because of your stomach and your frequent illnesses.

New Living Translation
Don’t drink only water. You ought to drink a little wine for the sake of your stomach because you are sick so often.

English Standard Version
(No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.)

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

New American Standard Bible
Do not go on drinking only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.

NASB 1995
No longer drink water exclusively, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.

NASB 1977
No longer drink water exclusively, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.

Amplified Bible
No longer continue drinking [only] water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent illnesses.

Christian Standard Bible
Don’t continue drinking only water, but use a little wine because of your stomach and your frequent illnesses.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Don't continue drinking only water, but use a little wine because of your stomach and your frequent illnesses.

Contemporary English Version
Stop drinking only water. Take a little wine to help your stomach trouble and the other illnesses you often have.

Good News Translation
Do not drink water only, but take a little wine to help your digestion, since you are sick so often.

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

International Standard Version
Stop drinking only water, but use a little wine for your stomach because of your frequent illnesses.

NET Bible
(Stop drinking just water, but use a little wine for your digestion and your frequent illnesses.)
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.

New King James Version
No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities.

King James 2000 Bible
Drink no longer water only, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake and your frequent illnesses.

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

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

American King James Version
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake and your often infirmities.

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

A Faithful Version
No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake and your frequent infirmities.

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

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

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

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Drinke no longer water, but vse a litle wine for thy stomakes sake, and thine often infirmities.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Drinke no longer water, but vse a litle wine for thy stomackes sake & thine often diseases.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Drynke no lenger water, but vse a litle wyne for yi stomackes sake, and because thou art oft tymes sicke.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
Drynke no lenger water but vse a lytell wyne for thy stommakes sake and thyne often diseases.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
no longer be drinking water, but be using a little wine, because of your stomach and of your frequent sicknesses;

Berean Literal Bible
No longer drink only water, but use a little wine, because of the stomach and your frequent ailments.

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

Smith's Literal Translation
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach and thy frequent weaknesses.

Literal Emphasis Translation
No longer drink water, but rather make use of a little wine because of your stomach and your frequent ailments.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Do not still drink water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake, and thy frequent infirmities.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Do not continue to drink only water, but make use of a little wine, for the sake of your stomach and your frequent infirmities.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Do not drink water from now on, but drink a little wine because of your stomach and because of your chronic illness.

Lamsa Bible
Do not drink water in excess, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake, and because of your frequent illnesses.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
Drink water no longer, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake, and your frequent infirmities.

Godbey New Testament
Keep yourself pure. No longer drink water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and on account of your frequent sickness.

Haweis New Testament
confine thyself no longer to water-drinking; but use a little wine for thy stomach?s sake, and thy frequent indispositions.

Mace New Testament
Discontinue the drinking of bare water, take a litle wine out of regard to your weak stomach, and your frequent indispositions.

Weymouth New Testament


Worrell New Testament
Be no longer a drinker of water, but use a little wine because of your stomach and your frequent infirmities.

Worsley New Testament
Drink no longer water only, but use a little wine with it, for the sake of thy stomach and thy frequent infirmities.
















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