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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."
Husbands, love your wives, as Messiah also did love the assembly and gave Himself for it,
in order to set it apart and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word,
“When a man has taken a new wife, let him not go out into the army nor let any matter be imposed upon him. He shall be exempt one year for the sake of his home, to rejoice with his wife whom he has taken.
Although one might be overpowered, two withstand him. And a threefold cord is not readily broken.
And now belief, expectation, and love remain – these three. But the greatest of these is love.
Let marriage be respected by all, and the bed be undefiled. But Elohim shall judge those who whore, and adulterers.
Wives, subject yourselves to your own husbands, as is proper in the Master.
Husbands, love your wives and do not be bitter toward them.
Let the husband render to his wife what is her due, and likewise also the wife to her husband.
The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
“For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”
Therefore, as chosen ones of Elohim, set-apart and beloved, put on compassion, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, patience,
bearing with one another, and forgiving each other if anyone has a complaint against another, indeed, as Messiah forgave you so also should you.
But above all these put on love, which is a bond of the perfection.
And let the peace of Elohim rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one Body, and be filled with thanks.
Let the Word of Messiah dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing with pleasure in your hearts to the Master in psalms and songs of praise and spiritual songs.
And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the Name of the Master יהושע, giving thanks to Elohim the Father through Him.
For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
But whoring and all uncleanness, or greed of gain, let it not even be named among you, as is proper among set-apart ones –
neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather thanksgiving.
For this you know, that no one who whores, nor unclean one, nor one greedy of gain, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the reign of Messiah and Elohim.
but, maintaining the truth in love, we grow up in all respects into Him who is the head, Messiah,
Wives, subject yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Master.
Because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Messiah is head of the assembly, and He is Saviour of the body.
But as the assembly is subject to Messiah, so also let the wives be to their own husbands in every respect.
Husbands, love your wives, as Messiah also did love the assembly and gave Himself for it,
in order to set it apart and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word,
in order to present it to Himself a splendid assembly, not having spot or wrinkle or any of this sort, but that it might be set-apart and blameless.
In this way husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
For no one ever hated his own flesh, but feeds and cherishes it, as also the Master does the assembly.
Because we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones.
“For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”
This secret is great, but I speak concerning Messiah and the assembly.
However, you too, everyone, let each one love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she fears her husband.
Husbands, love your wives, as Messiah also did love the assembly and gave Himself for it,
Because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Messiah is head of the assembly, and He is Saviour of the body.
Love never fails. And whether there be prophecies, they shall be inactive; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall be inactive.
But because of whoring, let each one have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
Let not kindness and truth forsake you – Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart,
Thus finding favour and good insight In the eyes of Elohim and man.
In the same way, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that if any are disobedient to the Word, they, without a word, might be won by the behaviour of their wives,
having seen your blameless behaviour in fear.
Your adornment should not be outward – arranging the hair, wearing gold, or putting on dresses –
but the hidden Man of the heart, with the incorruptible ornament of a meek and peaceable spirit, which is of great value before Elohim.
For in this way, in former times, the set-apart women who trusted in Elohim also adorned themselves, being subject to their own husbands,
as Sarah obeyed Aḇ
In the same way, husbands, live understandingly together, giving respect to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the favour of life, so that your prayers are not hindered.
In this is love, not that we loved Elohim, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be an atoning offering for our sins.
And above all have fervent love for one another, because love covers a great number of sins.
Therefore, as you accepted Messiah יהושע the Master, walk in Him,
having been rooted and built up in Him, and established in the belief, as you were taught, overflowing in it with thanksgiving.
See to it that no one makes a prey of you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary matters of the world, and not according to Messiah.
Because in Him dwells all the completeness of the Mightiness bodily,
and you have been made complete in Him, who is the Head of all principality and authority.
And יהוה Elohim said, “It is not good for the man to be alone, I am going to make a helper for him, as his counterpart.”
See life with the wife whom you love all the days of your futile life which He has given you under the sun, all your days of futility. For that is your share in life, and in your toil which you have laboured under the sun.
wishing to be teachers of Torah, understanding neither what they say nor concerning what they strongly affirm.
If I speak with the tongues of men and of messengers, but do not have love, I have become as sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
Love is patient, is kind, love does not envy, love does not boast, is not puffed up,
does not behave indecently, does not seek its own, is not provoked, reckons not the evil,
does not rejoice over the unrighteousness, but rejoices in the truth,
it covers all, believes all, expects all, endures all.
“You heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’
“But I say to you that everyone looking at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Set me as a seal upon your heart, As a seal upon your arm; For love is as strong as death, Jealousy as cruel as the grave; Its flames are flames of fire, a flame of Yah!
Many waters are unable to extinguish love, And floods do not wash it away. If one would give all the wealth of his house for love, It would be utterly scorned.
And Elohim created the man in His image, in the image of Elohim He created him – male and female He created them.
And Elohim blessed them, and Elohim said to them, “Bear fruit and increase, and fill the earth and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over all creatures moving on the earth.”
Who does find a capable wife? For she is worth far more than rubies.
The heart of her husband shall trust her, And he has no lack of gain.
She shall do him good, and not evil, All the days of her life.
with all humility and meekness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
being eager to guard the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace –
But because of whoring, let each one have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
Let the husband render to his wife what is her due, and likewise also the wife to her husband.
The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
Do not deprive one another except with agreement for a time, to give yourselves to fasting and prayer. And come together again so that Satan does not try you because of your lack of self-control.
make my joy complete by being of the same mind, having the same love, one in being and of purpose,
doing none at all through selfishness or self-conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.
Each one should look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.
In brotherly love, tenderly loving towards one another, in appreciation, giving preference to each other;
For you, brothers, have been called to freedom, only do not use freedom as an occasion for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
So I resolve that the younger widows marry, bear children, manage the house, giving no occasion to the adversary for reviling.
If יהוה does not build the house, Its builders have laboured in vain. If יהוה does not guard the city, The watchman has stayed awake in vain.
Let the husband render to his wife what is her due, and likewise also the wife to her husband.
The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
Do not deprive one another except with agreement for a time, to give yourselves to fasting and prayer. And come together again so that Satan does not try you because of your lack of self-control.
And He answering, said to them, “Did you not read that He who made them at the beginning made them male and female,
and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?
“So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what Elohim has joined together, let man not separate.”
And to the married I command, not I, but the Master: A wife should not separate from a husband.
But if she is indeed separated, let her remain unmarried or be restored to favour with her husband, and let a husband not send away a wife.
“And it has been said, ‘Whoever puts away his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’
“But I say to you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the matter of whoring, makes her commit adultery. And whoever marries a woman who has been put away commits adultery.
And if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the belief and is worse than an unbeliever.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, trustworthiness,
gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no Torah.
Houses and riches are the inheritance from fathers, But an understanding wife is from יהוה.
You have put heart into me, My sister, my bride; You have put heart into me With one glance of your eyes, With one bead of your necklace.
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be pleasing before You, O יהוה, my rock and my redeemer.