VERSES ABOUT VICES AND ADDICTIONS

Addiction and bad habits can be so destructive. Think about it, addiction is clinging to something—a behavior, a substance, an activity, even a person—that's actually harming you. So many of us struggle with these things, feeling trapped by a vice or an addiction. Sometimes, we feel like it's because of our past.

But here's the truth: in God, we're free. Christ set us free from all of that and forgave our sins. If you keep dwelling on the past, those chains can really hold you back. Sometimes, these struggles can even stem from negative spiritual influences, finding a foothold and coming to light when we unknowingly open a door, giving the enemy a legal right to step in.

You have the power to let go of what's binding you. Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal any areas of bondage you need to address. Receive God's forgiveness and His healing. He's there for you.

I pray that we all find freedom from anything that's hurting us and holding us back. Just like it says in John 8:36, "So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed."

Husbands, love your own wives even as Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it,

so that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it with the washing of water by the word,

When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be charged with any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

Let all things of you be done in love.

And if a man prevails against him who is alone, two shall withstand him. And a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

And now remain faith, hope, love, these three, but the greater of these is love.

and above all these things, love, which is the bond of perfection.

Marriage is precious in every way, and the undefiled bed, but God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

Love without hypocrisy, abhorring what is evil, clinging to what is good,

Wives, be ye submissive to your own husbands as is proper in Lord.

Husbands, love the wives and do not be made bitter against them.

He who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor from LORD.

Let the husband render the goodwill owed to the wife, and likewise also the wife to the husband.

The wife has not the right of her private body, but the husband, and likewise also the husband has not the right of his private body, but the wife.

Separate from this a man will leave his father and mother behind, and will be bonded with his wife, and the two will be in one flesh.

Put on therefore, as chosen men of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassion, kindness, humility, mildness, longsuffering,

forbearing each other, and forgiving yourselves, if any man has a complaint against any, just as also the Christ forgave you, so also ye,

and above all these things, love, which is the bond of perfection.

And let the peace of God umpire in your hearts, for which also ye were called in one body, and become thankful.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you abundantly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing by grace in your hearts to God.

And all things, anything whatever ye may do in word or in deed, do all in the name of Lord Jesus, expressing thanks to the God and Father through him.

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cling to his wife, and the two (LXX/NT) shall be one flesh.

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or greed, shall not even be named among you as befits the sanctified,

also indecency, and foolish talking or jesting, things not befitting, but thankfulness instead.

For ye are men who know this, that no fornicator, or unclean man, or covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God.

Let not one man seek that of himself, but each man that of the other.

with all humility and mildness, with longsuffering, forbearing each other in love.

But being truthful in love, we may cause all things to grow for him who is the head--the Christ--

Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord.

Because a husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church, and himself the savior of the body.

But as the church is subject to the Christ, so also the wives to their own husbands in everything.

Husbands, love your own wives even as Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it,

so that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it with the washing of water by the word,

so that he might present it to himself, the glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should be holy and unblemished.

So ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as also Christ the church,

because we are parts of his body, of his flesh and of his bones.

Separate from this a man will leave his father and mother behind, and will be bonded with his wife, and the two will be in one flesh.

This mystery is great, but I speak for Christ and for the church.

Nevertheless ye also, each one in particular, shall so love his own wife as himself, and the wife that she fear her husband.

Husbands, love your own wives even as Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it,

Because a husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church, and himself the savior of the body.

Love never fails. But whether prophecies, they will be abolished, whether tongues, they will cease, whether knowledge, it will be abolished.

But because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

He who follows after righteousness and kindness finds life, righteousness, and honor.

Let not kindness and truth forsake thee. Bind them about thy neck, write them upon the tablet of thy heart,

so thou shall find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

Likewise the wives, being subordinate to their own husbands, so that even if any are disobedient to the word, they will be gained without a word by the behavior of the wives,

observing, in fear, your pure behavior.

Of which let it not be the outward world of braiding of hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on apparel,

but the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible, of the meek and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

For this way formerly also, the holy women, trusting in God, adorned themselves, being subordinate to their own husbands,

as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children ye became, doing good, and not being afraid of anything fearful.

Likewise the husbands living together knowledgably, as with a weaker vessel, apportioning worth to the female as also joint-heirs of the grace of life, for your prayers not to be hindered.

A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son, an atonement for our sins.

And above all having fervent love for yourselves, because love will cover a multitude of sins,

As therefore ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him,

rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as ye were taught, abounding in it with thankfulness.

Take heed lest there will be any man taking you captive through the love of wisdom and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ.

Because in him all the fullness of the divinity dwells bodily.

And ye are men who have been made full in him, who is the head of every principal office and position of authority.

And LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone, I will make a help meet for him.

Through wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established,

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou love all the days of thy life of vanity, which he has given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity. For that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor in which thou labor under the sun.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also are obligated to love each other.

desiring to be law teachers, understanding neither what they say, nor about what they confidently assert.

If I speak with the tongues of men and of heavenly agents, but have not love, I have become sounding brass, or a clashing cymbal.

Love is patient and is kind. Love does not envy. Love does not brag, and is not puffed up.

It does not behave improperly, does not seek the things of itself, is not made sharp, does not contemplate evil,

does not rejoice in wrong but rejoices in the truth,

covers all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

My beloved is mine, and I am his. He feeds among the lilies.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all transgressions.

Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shall not commit adultery.

But I say to you, that every man who looks on a woman to crave her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm. For love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as Sheol. The flashes of it are flashes of fire, a most vehement flame.

Many waters cannot quench love, nor can floods drown it. If a man would give all the substance of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned.

And God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him, male and female he created them.

And God blessed them. And God said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply and replenish the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moves upo

He who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.

The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he shall have no lack of gain.

She does him good and not evil all the days of her life.

with all humility and mildness, with longsuffering, forbearing each other in love.

Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace,

But because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

Let the husband render the goodwill owed to the wife, and likewise also the wife to the husband.

The wife has not the right of her private body, but the husband, and likewise also the husband has not the right of his private body, but the wife.

Do not defraud each other except from agreement for a time, so that ye may have time for fasting and prayer. And come together again for the same thing, so that Satan not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

fulfill my joy, that ye may think the same way, having the same love, being knit in soul, thinking in oneness,

in nothing according to selfish ambition or empty conceit, but in humility considering each other surpassing yourselves.

Look ye out (each man) not to things of yourselves, but each man also to the things of others.

with brotherly love toward each other, affectionate, leading each other in recognition,

For ye, brothers, were called to liberty, only not liberty for an opportunity to the flesh, but be servants to each other through love.

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a fatted ox and hatred with it.

I desire therefore the younger women to marry, to bear children, to manage house, to give not one occasion to him who opposes on account of slander.

Unless LORD builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless LORD guards the city, the watchman wake but in vain.

Let the husband render the goodwill owed to the wife, and likewise also the wife to the husband.

The wife has not the right of her private body, but the husband, and likewise also the husband has not the right of his private body, but the wife.

Do not defraud each other except from agreement for a time, so that ye may have time for fasting and prayer. And come together again for the same thing, so that Satan not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

And having answered, he said to them, Have ye not read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

and said, For this reason a man will leave his father and mother behind, and will be bonded with his wife, and the two will be in one flesh?

So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, no man shall separate.

And to those who are married, I do not command but the Lord. The wife is not to separate from her husband.

But even if she separates, she shall remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband is not to leave his wife.

And it was said, Whoever may divorce his wife, let him give her a divorce certificate.

But I say to you, that whoever may divorce his wife apart from a matter of fornication, disposes her to commit adultery, and whoever may marry her who has been divorced commits adultery.

We love him, because he first loved us.

Delight thyself also in LORD, and he will give thee the desires of thy heart.

Love works no evil to the neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of law.

But if any man does not provide for his own, and especially those belonging his household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

Mercy and truth are met together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law.

I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.

Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness, but a faithful man who can find?

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from LORD.

Thou have ravished my heart, my sister, [my] bride. Thou have ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my rock, and my redeemer.

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