Drinking Wine

Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.

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

Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already approved your works:

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything to cause your brother to stumble.

Give strong drink to one who is perishing, and wine to the bitter in soul.

Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine and champions in mixing strong drink,

Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine.

He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:

…wine that gladdens the heart of man, oil that makes his face to shine, and bread that sustains his heart.

Deacons likewise must be dignified, not double-tongued or given to much wine or greedy for money.