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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."
As for husbands, love your wives just like Christ loved the church and gave himself for her.
He did this to make her holy by washing her in a bath of water with the word.
A newly married man doesn’t have to march in battle. Neither should any related duties be placed on him. He is to live free of such responsibilities for one year, so he can bring joy to his new wife.
Also, one can be overpowered, but two together can put up resistance. A three-ply cord doesn’t easily snap.
Now faith, hope, and love remain—these three things—and the greatest of these is love.
Marriage must be honored in every respect, with no cheating on the relationship, because God will judge the sexually immoral person and the person who commits adultery.
Wives, submit to your husbands in a way that is appropriate in the Lord.
Husbands, love your wives and don’t be harsh with them.
The husband should meet his wife’s sexual needs, and the wife should do the same for her husband.
The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise, the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
“This is why a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and the two of them will be one body”.
Therefore, as God’s choice, holy and loved, put on compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.
Be tolerant with each other and, if someone has a complaint against anyone, forgive each other. As the Lord forgave you, so also forgive each other.
And over all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity.
The peace of Christ must control your hearts—a peace into which you were called in one body. And be thankful people.
The word of Christ must live in you richly. Teach and warn each other with all wisdom by singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing to God with gratitude in your hearts.
Whatever you do, whether in speech or action, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus and give thanks to God the Father through him.
This is the reason that a man leaves his father and mother and embraces his wife, and they become one flesh.
Sexual immorality, and any kind of impurity or greed, shouldn’t even be mentioned among you, which is right for holy persons.
Obscene language, silly talk, or vulgar jokes aren’t acceptable for believers. Instead, there should be thanksgiving.
Because you know for sure that persons who are sexually immoral, impure, or greedy—which happens when things become gods—those persons won’t inherit the kingdom of Christ and God.
No one should look out for their own advantage, but they should look out for each other.
Conduct yourselves with all humility, gentleness, and patience. Accept each other with love,
For example, wives should submit to their husbands as if to the Lord.
A husband is the head of his wife like Christ is head of the church, that is, the savior of the body.
So wives submit to their husbands in everything like the church submits to Christ.
As for husbands, love your wives just like Christ loved the church and gave himself for her.
He did this to make her holy by washing her in a bath of water with the word.
He did this to present himself with a splendid church, one without any sort of stain or wrinkle on her clothes, but rather one that is holy and blameless.
That’s how husbands ought to love their wives—in the same way as they do their own bodies. Anyone who loves his wife loves himself.
No one ever hates his own body, but feeds it and takes care of it just like Christ does for the church
because we are parts of his body.
“This is why a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and the two of them will be one body”.
Marriage is a significant allegory, and I’m applying it to Christ and the church.
In any case, as for you individually, each one of you should love his wife as himself, and wives should respect their husbands.
As for husbands, love your wives just like Christ loved the church and gave himself for her.
A husband is the head of his wife like Christ is head of the church, that is, the savior of the body.
Love never fails. As for prophecies, they will be brought to an end. As for tongues, they will stop. As for knowledge, it will be brought to an end.
Each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband because of sexual immorality.
Don’t let loyalty and faithfulness leave you. Bind them on your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.
Then you will find favor and approval in the eyes of God and humanity.
Wives, likewise, submit to your own husbands. Do this so that even if some of them refuse to believe the word, they may be won without a word by their wives’ way of life.
After all, they will have observed the reverent and holy manner of your lives.
Don’t try to make yourselves beautiful on the outside, with stylish hair or by wearing gold jewelry or fine clothes.
Instead, make yourselves beautiful on the inside, in your hearts, with the enduring quality of a gentle, peaceful spirit. This type of beauty is very precious in God’s eyes.
For it was in this way that holy women who trusted in God used to make themselves beautiful, accepting the authority of their own husbands.
For example, Sarah accepted Abraham’s authority when she called him “master”. You have become her children when you do good and don’t respond to threats with fear.
Husbands, likewise, submit by living with your wife in ways that honor her, knowing that she is the weaker partner. Honor her all the more, as she is also a coheir of the gracious care of life. Do this so that your prayers won’t be hindered.
This is love: it is not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son as the sacrifice that deals with our sins.
Above all, show sincere love to each other, because love brings about the forgiveness of many sins.
And you have been filled by him, who is the head of every ruler and authority.
So live in Christ Jesus the Lord in the same way as you received him.
Be rooted and built up in him, be established in faith, and overflow with thanksgiving just as you were taught.
See to it that nobody enslaves you with philosophy and foolish deception, which conform to human traditions and the way the world thinks and acts rather than Christ.
All the fullness of deity lives in Christ’s body.
Then the LORD God said, “It’s not good that the human is alone. I will make him a helper that is perfect for him.”
Enjoy life with your dearly loved spouse all the days of your pointless life that God gives you under the sun—all the days of your pointless life!—because that’s your part to play in this life and in your hard work under the sun.
They want to be teachers of Law without understanding either what they are saying or what they are talking about with such confidence.
If I speak in tongues of human beings and of angels but I don’t have love, I’m a clanging gong or a clashing cymbal.
Love is patient, love is kind, it isn’t jealous, it doesn’t brag, it isn’t arrogant,
it isn’t rude, it doesn’t seek its own advantage, it isn’t irritable, it doesn’t keep a record of complaints,
it isn’t happy with injustice, but it is happy with the truth.
Love puts up with all things, trusts in all things, hopes for all things, endures all things.
“You have heard that it was said, Don’t commit adultery.
But I say to you that every man who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery in his heart.
Set me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is as strong as death, passionate love unrelenting as the grave. Its darts are darts of fire— divine flame!
Rushing waters can’t quench love; rivers can’t wash it away. If someone gave all his estate in exchange for love, he would be laughed to utter shame.
God created humanity in God’s own image, in the divine image God created them, male and female God created them.
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and master it. Take charge of the fish of the sea, the birds in the sky, and everything crawling on the ground.”
A competent wife, how does one find her? Her value is far above pearls.
Her husband entrusts his heart to her, and with her he will have all he needs.
She brings him good and not trouble all the days of her life.
Conduct yourselves with all humility, gentleness, and patience. Accept each other with love,
and make an effort to preserve the unity of the Spirit with the peace that ties you together.
Each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband because of sexual immorality.
The husband should meet his wife’s sexual needs, and the wife should do the same for her husband.
The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise, the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
Don’t refuse to meet each other’s needs unless you both agree for a short period of time to devote yourselves to prayer. Then come back together again so that Satan might not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
complete my joy by thinking the same way, having the same love, being united, and agreeing with each other.
Don’t do anything for selfish purposes, but with humility think of others as better than yourselves.
Instead of each person watching out for their own good, watch out for what is better for others.
Love each other like the members of your family. Be the best at showing honor to each other.
You were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only don’t let this freedom be an opportunity to indulge your selfish impulses, but serve each other through love.
So I want younger widows to marry, have children, and manage their homes so that they won’t give the enemy any reason to slander us. (
Unless it is the LORD who builds the house, the builders’ work is pointless. Unless it is the LORD who protects the city, the guard on duty is pointless.
The husband should meet his wife’s sexual needs, and the wife should do the same for her husband.
The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise, the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
Don’t refuse to meet each other’s needs unless you both agree for a short period of time to devote yourselves to prayer. Then come back together again so that Satan might not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
Jesus answered, “Haven’t you read that at the beginning the creator made them male and female?
And God said, ‘Because of this a man should leave his father and mother and be joined together with his wife, and the two will be one flesh.’
So they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore, humans must not pull apart what God has put together.”
I’m passing on the Lord’s command to those who are married: A wife shouldn’t leave her husband,
but if she does leave him, then she should stay single or be reconciled to her husband. And a man shouldn’t divorce his wife.
“It was said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife must give her a divorce certificate.’
But I say to you that whoever divorces his wife except for sexual unfaithfulness forces her to commit adultery. And whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
But if someone doesn’t provide for their own family, and especially for a member of their household, they have denied the faith. They are worse than those who have no faith.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against things like this.
House and riches are an inheritance from one’s ancestors, but an insightful wife is from the LORD.
You have captured my heart, my sister, my bride! You have captured my heart with one glance from your eyes, with one strand of your necklace.
Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be pleasing to you, LORD, my rock and my redeemer.