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 wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;

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

When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he hath taken.

Let all that ye do be done in love.\par

And if a man prevail against him that is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.\par

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.\par

and above all these things {\i put on} love, which is the bond of perfectness.

{\i Let} marriage {\i be} had in honor among all, and {\i let} the bed {\i be} undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing,\par\tab And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.

Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

The wife hath not power over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power over his own body, but the wife.

{\b For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.}

Put on therefore, as God's elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering;

forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any man have a complaint against any; even as the Lord forgave you, so also do ye:

and above all these things {\i put on} love, which is the bond of perfectness.

And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to the which also ye were called in one body; and be ye thankful.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms {\i and} hymns {\i and} spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts unto God.

And whatsoever ye do, in word or in deed, {\i do} all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.\par

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not befitting: but rather giving of thanks.

For this ye know of a surety, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

Let no man seek his own, but {\i each} his neighbor's {\i good}.

with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

but speaking truth in love, may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, {\i even} Christ;

Wives, {\i be in subjection} unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, {\i being} himself the saviour of the body.

But as the church is subject to Christ, so {\i let} the wives also {\i be} to their husbands in everything.

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

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

that he might present the church to himself a glorious {\i church}, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church;

because we are members of his body.

{\b For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.}

This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church.

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and {\i let} the wife {\i see} that she fear her husband.\par

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

For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, {\i being} himself the saviour of the body.

Love never faileth: but whether {\i there be} prophecies, they shall be done away; whether {\i there be} tongues, they shall cease; whether {\i there be} knowledge, it shall be done away.

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

He that followeth after righteousness and kindness\par\tab Findeth life, righteousness, and honor.

Let not kindness and truth forsake thee:\par\tab Bind them about thy neck;\par\tab Write them upon the tablet of thy heart:

So shalt thou find favor and good understanding\par\tab In the sight of God and man.

In like manner, wives, {\i be} in subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they shall without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;

beholding your chaste behavior {\i coupled} with fear.

Whose {\i adorning} let it not be the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on apparel;

but {\i let it be} the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible {\i apparel} of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

For after this manner aforetime the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose children ye now are, if ye do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.\par

Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell with {\i your wives} according to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.\par

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

Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son {\i to be} the propitiation for our sins.

above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:

As therefore ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, {\i so} walk in him,

rooted and builded up in him, and established in your faith, even as ye were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

Take heed lest there shall be any one that maketh spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ:

for in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily,

and in him ye are made full, who is the head of all principality and power:

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

Through wisdom is a house builded;\par\tab And by understanding it is established;

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of thy life of vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity: for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor wherein thou laborest under the sun.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor whereof they confidently affirm.

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

Love suffereth long, {\i and} is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil;

rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth;

beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

My beloved is mine, and I am his:\par\tab He feedeth {\i his flock} among the lilies.

Hatred stirreth up strifes;\par\tab But love covereth all transgressions.

Ye have heard that it was said, {\b Thou shalt not commit adultery}:

but I say unto you, that every one that looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Set me as a seal upon thy heart,\par\tab As a seal upon thine arm:\par\tab For love is strong as death;\par\tab Jealousy is cruel as Sheol;\par\tab The flashes thereof are flashes of fire,\par\tab A very flame of Jehovah.

Many waters cannot quench love,\par\tab Neither can floods drown it:\par\tab If a man would give all the substance of his house for love,\par\tab He would utterly be contemned.\par

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

And God blessed them: and God said unto 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 moveth upon the earth.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

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

The heart of her husband trusteth in her,\par\tab And he shall have no lack of gain.

She doeth him good and not evil\par\tab All the days of her life.

with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

giving diligence 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 unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

The wife hath not power over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power over his own body, but the wife.

Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

make full my joy, that ye be of the same mind, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

{\i doing} nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself;

not looking each of you to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another;

For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only {\i use} not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.

Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is,\par\tab Than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

I desire therefore that the younger {\i widows} marry, bear children, rule the household, give no occasion to the adversary for reviling:

{\b A Song of Ascents; of Solomon.}\par\par\tab Except Jehovah build the house,\par\tab They labor in vain that build it:\par\tab Except Jehovah keep the city,\par\tab The watchman waketh but in vain.

Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

The wife hath not power over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power over his own body, but the wife.

Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

And he answered and said, {\cf6 Have ye not read, that he who created {\i them} from the beginning {\b made them male and female,}

and said, {\b For this cause shall a man leave {\i his} father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh}?

So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.}

But unto the married I give charge, {\i yea} not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband

(but should she depart, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband); and that the husband leave not his wife.

It was said also, {\b Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement}:

but I say unto you, that every one that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away committeth adultery.\par

We love, because he first loved us.

Delight thyself also in Jehovah;\par\tab And he will give thee the desires of thy heart.

Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: love therefore is the fulfilment of the law.\par

But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

Mercy and truth are met together;\par\tab Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

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

meekness, self-control; against such there is no law.

I am my beloved's;\par\tab And his desire is toward me.

Most men will proclaim every one his own kindness;\par\tab But a faithful man who can find?

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers;\par\tab But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.

Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, {\i my} bride;\par\tab Thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes,\par\tab With one chain of thy neck.

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart\par\tab Be acceptable in thy sight, O Jehovah, my rock, and my redeemer.\par

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