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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."
Though perfect eloquence adorn’d my sweet persuading tongue, Though I could speak in higher strains than ever angel sung; 2 Though prophecy my soul inspir’d, and made all myst’ries plain: Yet, were I void of Christian love, these gifts were all in vain. 3 Nay, though my faith with boundless pow’r ev’n mountains could remove, I still am nothing, if I’m void of charity and love. 4 Although with lib’ral hand I gave my goods the poor to feed, Nay, gave my body to the flames, still fruitless were the deed. 5 Love suffers long; love envies not; but love is ever kind; She never boasteth of herself, nor proudly lifts the mind. 6 Love harbours no suspicious thought, is patient to the bad; Griev’d when she hears of sins and crimes, and in the truth is glad. 7 Love no unseemly carriage shows, nor selfishly confin’d; She glows with social tenderness, and feels for all mankind. 8 Love beareth much, much she believes, and still she hopes the best; Love meekly suffers many a wrong, though sore with hardship press’d. 9 Love still shall hold an endless reign in earth and heav’n above, When tongues shall cease, and prophets fail, and ev’ry gift but love. 10 Here all our gifts imperfect are; but better days draw nigh, When perfect light shall pour its rays, and all those shadows fly. 11 Like children here we speak and think, amus’d with childish toys; But when our pow’rs their manhood reach, we’ll scorn our present joys. 12 Now dark and dim, as through a glass, are God and truth beheld; Then shall we see as face to face, and God shall be unvail’d. 13 Faith, Hope, and Love, now dwell on earth, and earth by them is blest; But Faith and Hope must yield to Love, of all the graces best. 14 Hope shall to full fruition rise, and Faith be sight above: These are the means, but this the end; for saints for ever love.