Word of Wisdom
- to you it shall be for meat: Gen. 1:29 . ( Moses 2:29 ; Abr. 4:29 . )
- shall be meat for you; even as the green herb: Gen. 9:3 .
- Do not drink wine nor strong drink: Lev. 10:9 . ( Judg. 13:4, 14 . )
- shall separate himself from wine and strong drink: Num. 6:3 .
- Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing: Deut. 14:3 .
- Their wine is the poison of dragons: Deut. 32:33 .
- health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones: Prov. 3:8 . ( D&C 89:18 . )
- Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: Prov. 20:1 .
- if thou be a man given to appetite: Prov. 23:2 .
- drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: Prov. 23:21 .
- eat … for strength, and not for drunkenness: Eccl. 10:17 .
- Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine: Isa. 5:22 .
- strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it: Isa. 24:9 .
- they also have erred through wine: Isa. 28:7 .
- he would not defile himself with … the king’s meat: Dan. 1:8 .
- neighbour drink … and makest him drunken: Hab. 2:15 .
- If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy: 1 Cor. 3:17 .
- nor drunkards … shall inherit the kingdom: 1 Cor. 6:10 . ( Gal. 5:21 . )
- be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess: Eph. 5:18 .
- Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink: Col. 2:16 .
- Not given to wine: 1 Tim. 3:3 .
- commanding to abstain from meats: 1 Tim. 4:3 .
- continue until night, and wine inflame them: 2 Ne. 15:11 .
- many plants and roots … to remove the cause of diseases: Alma 46:40 .
- whoso forbiddeth to abstain from meats: D&C 49:18 .
- all these things … to be used, with judgment, not to excess: D&C 59:20 .
- retire to thy bed early … arise early: D&C 88:124 .
- Word of Wisdom, for the benefit of the council of high priests: D&C 89:1 . ( D&C 89:1–21 . )
- inasmuch as any man drinketh wine or strong drink among you: D&C 89:5 .
- Cease drunkenness: D&C 136:24 .
See also 1 Tim. 5:23
