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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 just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her
to sanctify her by cleansing her with the washing of the water by the word,
When a man is newly married, he need not go into the army nor be obligated in any way; he must be free to stay at home for a full year and bring joy to the wife he has married.
Although an assailant may overpower one person, two can withstand him. Moreover, a three-stranded cord is not quickly broken.
And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.
Marriage must be honored among all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them.
The one who finds a wife finds what is enjoyable, and receives a pleasurable gift from the Lord.
A husband should give to his wife her sexual rights, and likewise a wife to her husband.
those with tears like those not weeping, those who rejoice like those not rejoicing, those who buy like those without possessions,
those who use the world as though they were not using it to the full. For the present shape of this world is passing away.
And I want you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord.
But a married man is concerned about the things of the world, how to please his wife,
and he is divided. An unmarried woman or a virgin is concerned about the things of the Lord, to be holy both in body and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the things of the world, how to please her husband.
I am saying this for your benefit, not to place a limitation on you, but so that without distraction you may give notable and constant service to the Lord.
If anyone thinks he is acting inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the bloom of youth and it seems necessary, he should do what he wishes; he does not sin. Let them marry.
But the man who is firm in his commitment, and is under no necessity but has control over his will, and has decided in his own mind to keep his own virgin, does well.
So then, the one who marries his own virgin does well, but the one who does not, does better.
A wife is bound as long as her husband is living. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes (only someone in the Lord).
It is not the wife who has the rights to her own body, but the husband. In the same way, it is not the husband who has the rights to his own body, but the wife.
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.
Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with a heart of mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience,
bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if someone happens to have a complaint against anyone else. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also forgive others.
And to all these virtues add love, which is the perfect bond.
Let the peace of Christ be in control in your heart (for you were in fact called as one body to this peace), and be thankful.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and exhorting one another with all wisdom, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, all with grace in your hearts to God.
And whatever you do in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become a new family.
But among you there must not be either sexual immorality, impurity of any kind, or greed, as these are not fitting for the saints.
for we are members of his body.
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.
This mystery is great – but I am actually speaking with reference to Christ and the church.
Nevertheless, each one of you must also love his own wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Neither should there be vulgar speech, foolish talk, or coarse jesting – all of which are out of character – but rather thanksgiving.
For you can be confident of this one thing: that no person who is immoral, impure, or greedy (such a person is an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
But practicing the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ, who is the head.
Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord,
because the husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church – he himself being the savior of the body.
But as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her
to sanctify her by cleansing her with the washing of the water by the word,
so that he may present the church to himself as glorious – not having a stain or wrinkle, or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.
In the same way husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
For no one has ever hated his own body but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ also does the church,
But among you there must not be either sexual immorality, impurity of any kind, or greed, as these are not fitting for the saints.
for we are members of his body.
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.
This mystery is great – but I am actually speaking with reference to Christ and the church.
Nevertheless, each one of you must also love his own wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
because the husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church – he himself being the savior of the body.
Love never ends. But if there are prophecies, they will be set aside; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be set aside.
But because of immoralities, each man should have relations with his own wife and each woman with her own husband.
Do not let truth and mercy leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
Do not accuse anyone without legitimate cause, if he has not treated you wrongly.
Do not envy a violent man, and do not choose to imitate any of his ways;
for one who goes astray is an abomination to the Lord, but he reveals his intimate counsel to the upright.
The Lord’s curse is on the household of the wicked, but he blesses the home of the righteous.
Although he is scornful to arrogant scoffers, yet he shows favor to the humble.
The wise inherit honor, but he holds fools up to public contempt.
Then you will find favor and good understanding, in the sight of God and people.
In the same way, wives, be subject to your own husbands. Then, even if some are disobedient to the word, they will be won over without a word by the way you live,
For the one who wants to love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from uttering deceit.
And he must turn away from evil and do good; he must seek peace and pursue it.
For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous and his ears are open to their prayer. But the Lord’s face is against those who do evil.
For who is going to harm you if you are devoted to what is good?
But in fact, if you happen to suffer for doing what is right, you are blessed. But do not be terrified of them or be shaken.
But set Christ apart as Lord in your hearts and always be ready to give an answer to anyone who asks about the hope you possess.
Yet do it with courtesy and respect, keeping a good conscience, so that those who slander your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame when they accuse you.
For it is better to suffer for doing good, if God wills it, than for doing evil.
Because Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, to bring you to God, by being put to death in the flesh but by being made alive in the spirit.
In it he went and preached to the spirits in prison,
when they see your pure and reverent conduct.
after they were disobedient long ago when God patiently waited in the days of Noah as an ark was being constructed. In the ark a few, that is eight souls, were delivered through water.
And this prefigured baptism, which now saves you – not the washing off of physical dirt but the pledge of a good conscience to God – through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
who went into heaven and is at the right hand of God with angels and authorities and powers subject to him.
Let your beauty not be external – the braiding of hair and wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes –
but the inner person of the heart, the lasting beauty of a gentle and tranquil spirit, which is precious in God’s sight.
For in the same way the holy women who hoped in God long ago adorned themselves by being subject to their husbands,
like Sarah who obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. You become her children when you do what is good and have no fear in doing so.
Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as the weaker partners and show them honor as fellow heirs of the grace of life. In this way nothing will hinder your prayers.
In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
Above all keep your love for one another fervent, because love covers a multitude of sins.
The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him.”
Enjoy life with your beloved wife during all the days of your fleeting life that God has given you on earth during all your fleeting days; for that is your reward in life and in your burdensome work on earth.
They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not understand what they are saying or the things they insist on so confidently.
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but I do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
Love is patient, love is kind, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up.
It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful.
It is not glad about injustice, but rejoices in the truth.
It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
“You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’
But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to desire her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Set me like a cylinder seal over your heart, like a signet on your arm. For love is as strong as death, passion is as unrelenting as Sheol. Its flames burst forth, it is a blazing flame.
Surging waters cannot quench love; floodwaters cannot overflow it. If someone were to offer all his possessions to buy love, the offer would be utterly despised.
God created humankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them.
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it! Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground.”
Who can find a wife of noble character? For her value is far more than rubies.
The heart of her husband has confidence in her, and he has no lack of gain.
She brings him good and not evil all the days of her life.
with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
But you did not learn about Christ like this,
if indeed you heard about him and were taught in him, just as the truth is in Jesus.
You were taught with reference to your former way of life to lay aside the old man who is being corrupted in accordance with deceitful desires,
to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
and to put on the new man who has been created in God’s image – in righteousness and holiness that comes from truth.
Therefore, having laid aside falsehood, each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.
Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on the cause of your anger.
Do not give the devil an opportunity.
The one who steals must steal no longer; rather he must labor, doing good with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with the one who has need.
You must let no unwholesome word come out of your mouth, but only what is beneficial for the building up of the one in need, that it may give grace to those who hear.
making every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
But because of immoralities, each man should have relations with his own wife and each woman with her own husband.
Let each one remain in that situation in life in which he was called.
Were you called as a slave? Do not worry about it. But if indeed you are able to be free, make the most of the opportunity.
For the one who was called in the Lord as a slave is the Lord’s freedman. In the same way, the one who was called as a free person is Christ’s slave.
You were bought with a price. Do not become slaves of men.
In whatever situation someone was called, brothers and sisters, let him remain in it with God.
With regard to the question about people who have never married, I have no command from the Lord, but I give my opinion as one shown mercy by the Lord to be trustworthy.
Because of the impending crisis I think it best for you to remain as you are.
The one bound to a wife should not seek divorce. The one released from a wife should not seek marriage.
But if you marry, you have not sinned. And if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But those who marry will face difficult circumstances, and I am trying to spare you such problems.
And I say this, brothers and sisters: The time is short. So then those who have wives should be as those who have none,
A husband should give to his wife her sexual rights, and likewise a wife to her husband.
those with tears like those not weeping, those who rejoice like those not rejoicing, those who buy like those without possessions,
those who use the world as though they were not using it to the full. For the present shape of this world is passing away.
And I want you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord.
But a married man is concerned about the things of the world, how to please his wife,
and he is divided. An unmarried woman or a virgin is concerned about the things of the Lord, to be holy both in body and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the things of the world, how to please her husband.
I am saying this for your benefit, not to place a limitation on you, but so that without distraction you may give notable and constant service to the Lord.
If anyone thinks he is acting inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the bloom of youth and it seems necessary, he should do what he wishes; he does not sin. Let them marry.
But the man who is firm in his commitment, and is under no necessity but has control over his will, and has decided in his own mind to keep his own virgin, does well.
So then, the one who marries his own virgin does well, but the one who does not, does better.
A wife is bound as long as her husband is living. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes (only someone in the Lord).
It is not the wife who has the rights to her own body, but the husband. In the same way, it is not the husband who has the rights to his own body, but the wife.
But in my opinion, she will be happier if she remains as she is – and I think that I too have the Spirit of God!
Do not deprive each other, except by mutual agreement for a specified time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then resume your relationship, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
complete my joy and be of the same mind, by having the same love, being united in spirit, and having one purpose.
For there is no one here like him who will readily demonstrate his deep concern for you.
Others are busy with their own concerns, not those of Jesus Christ.
But you know his qualifications, that like a son working with his father, he served with me in advancing the gospel.
So I hope to send him as soon as I know more about my situation,
though I am confident in the Lord that I too will be coming to see you soon.
But for now I have considered it necessary to send Epaphroditus to you. For he is my brother, coworker and fellow soldier, and your messenger and minister to me in my need.
Indeed, he greatly missed all of you and was distressed because you heard that he had been ill.
In fact he became so ill that he nearly died. But God showed mercy to him – and not to him only, but also to me – so that I would not have grief on top of grief.
Therefore I am all the more eager to send him, so that when you see him again you can rejoice and I can be free from anxiety.
So welcome him in the Lord with great joy, and honor people like him,
Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself.
since it was because of the work of Christ that he almost died. He risked his life so that he could make up for your inability to serve me.
Each of you should be concerned not only about your own interests, but about the interests of others as well.
For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity to indulge your flesh, but through love serve one another.
Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox where there is hatred.
So I want younger women to marry, raise children, and manage a household, in order to give the adversary no opportunity to vilify us.
If the Lord does not build a house, then those who build it work in vain. If the Lord does not guard a city, then the watchman stands guard in vain.
A husband should give to his wife her sexual rights, and likewise a wife to her husband.
those with tears like those not weeping, those who rejoice like those not rejoicing, those who buy like those without possessions,
those who use the world as though they were not using it to the full. For the present shape of this world is passing away.
And I want you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord.
But a married man is concerned about the things of the world, how to please his wife,
and he is divided. An unmarried woman or a virgin is concerned about the things of the Lord, to be holy both in body and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the things of the world, how to please her husband.
I am saying this for your benefit, not to place a limitation on you, but so that without distraction you may give notable and constant service to the Lord.
If anyone thinks he is acting inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the bloom of youth and it seems necessary, he should do what he wishes; he does not sin. Let them marry.
But the man who is firm in his commitment, and is under no necessity but has control over his will, and has decided in his own mind to keep his own virgin, does well.
So then, the one who marries his own virgin does well, but the one who does not, does better.
A wife is bound as long as her husband is living. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes (only someone in the Lord).
It is not the wife who has the rights to her own body, but the husband. In the same way, it is not the husband who has the rights to his own body, but the wife.
But in my opinion, she will be happier if she remains as she is – and I think that I too have the Spirit of God!
Do not deprive each other, except by mutual agreement for a specified time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then resume your relationship, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
He answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator made them male and female,
and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?
So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
To the married I give this command – not I, but the Lord – a wife should not divorce a husband
(but if she does, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband), and a husband should not divorce his wife.
“It was said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife must give her a legal document.’
But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
But if someone does not provide for his own, especially his own family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride! You have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.
May my words and my thoughts be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my sheltering rock and my redeemer.