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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."
Men, love ye your wives, as Christ loved the church, and gave himself for it,
to make it holy; and cleansed it with the washing of water, in the word of life,
When a man hath taken late a wife, he shall not go forth to battle, neither anything of the common needs shall be enjoined to him, but he shall give attention without blame to his household, that he be glad in one year with his wife.
And if any man hath [the] mastery against one, twain [or two] against-stand him; a threefold cord is broken of hard.
And now dwell faith, hope, charity, these three; but the most of these is charity.
And upon all these things have ye charity, that is the bond of perfectness [or of perfection].
Wedding is in all things honourable, and bed unwemmed [or undefouled]; for God shall deem fornicators and adulterers.
Women, be ye subject to your husbands, as it behooveth in the Lord.
Men, love ye your wives, and do not ye be bitter to them.
He that findeth a good woman, findeth a good thing; and of the Lord he shall draw up mirth. He that putteth away a good woman, putteth away a good thing; but he that holdeth an adulteress, is a fool and unwise.
The husband yield debt to the wife, and also the wife to the husband.
and they that weep, as they wept not; and they that joy, as they joyed not; and they that buy, as they had not;
and they that use this world, as they that use [it] not. For why the figure, [or fairness], of this world passeth.
But I will, that ye be without busyness, for he that is without wife, is busy what things be of the Lord, how he shall please God.
But he that is with a wife, is busy what things be of the world, how he shall please the wife [or his wife], and he is parted.
And a woman unwedded and [a] maiden thinketh what things be of the Lord, that she be holy in body and spirit. But she that is wedded, thinketh what things be of the world, how she shall please the husband [or her husband].
And I say these things to your profit, not that I cast to you a snare, but to that that is seemly, and that giveth easiness [or facility], without hindering to make prayers, [or to beseech], to the Lord.
And if any man guesseth himself to be seen foul on his virgin, that she is full waxen [or is well old], and so it behooveth to be done, do she that that she will [or what he will]; she sinneth not, if she be wedded, [+or s/he sinneth not, if s/he be wedded].
For he that ordained stably, [or steadfastly], in his heart, not having need, but having power of his will, and hath deemed in his heart this thing, to keep his virgin [or his virginity], doeth well.
Therefore he that joineth his virgin in matrimony, doeth well; and he that joineth not, doeth better.
The woman is bound to the law, as long time as her husband liveth; and if her husband is dead, she is delivered from the law of the husband, be she wedded to whom she will, only in the Lord.
The woman hath not power of her body, but the husband; and the husband hath not power of his body, but the woman [or the wife].
For this thing a man shall forsake his father and mother, and he shall draw [or he shall cleave] to his wife; and they shall be twain in one flesh.
Therefore ye, as the chosen of God, holy and loved, clothe [ye] you with the entrails of mercy, benignity, and meekness, temperance, patience;
and support ye each other, [or bearing up together], and forgive to yourselves, if any man against any hath a quarrel; as the Lord [Christ] forgave to you, so also ye.
And upon all these things have ye charity, that is the bond of perfectness [or of perfection].
And the peace of Christ enjoy in your hearts, in which ye be called in one body, and be ye kind.
The word of Christ dwell in you plenteously, in all wisdom; and teach and admonish yourselves in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord.
All thing, whatever thing ye do, in word or in deed, all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, doing thankings to God and to the Father by him [or doing thankings to God the Father by him].
Wherefore a man shall forsake [his] father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be twain [or two] in one flesh.
And fornication, and all unclean-ness, or avarice, be not named among you, as it becometh holy men;
And we be members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
For this thing a man shall forsake his father and mother, and he shall draw [or he shall cleave] to his wife; and they shall be twain in one flesh.
This sacrament is great; yea, I say in Christ, and in the church.
Nevertheless ye all, each man love his wife as himself; and the wife dread her husband.
either filth, or folly speech, or buffoonery [or harlotry], that pertaineth not to profit, but more rather doing of thankings.
For know ye this, and understand, that each lecher [or each fornicator], or unclean man, or covetous [man], that serveth to maumets [or to idols], hath not heritage in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Women, be they subject to their husbands, as to the Lord,
for the man is head of the woman, as Christ is head of the church; he is Saviour of his body.
But as the church is subject to Christ, so women to their husbands in all things.
Men, love ye your wives, as Christ loved the church, and gave himself for it,
to make it holy; and cleansed it with the washing of water, in the word of life,
to give the church glorious to himself, that it had no wem, [or spot], nor rivelling [or wrinkle], or any such thing, but that it be holy and undefouled.
So and men shall love their wives, as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself;
for no man hated ever his own flesh, but nourisheth and fostereth it, as Christ doeth the church.
And fornication, and all unclean-ness, or avarice, be not named among you, as it becometh holy men;
And we be members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
For this thing a man shall forsake his father and mother, and he shall draw [or he shall cleave] to his wife; and they shall be twain in one flesh.
This sacrament is great; yea, I say in Christ, and in the church.
Nevertheless ye all, each man love his wife as himself; and the wife dread her husband.
for the man is head of the woman, as Christ is head of the church; he is Saviour of his body.
Charity falleth never down, whether prophecies shall be voided, either languages shall cease, either science shall be destroyed.
But for fornication each man have his own wife, and each woman have her own husband.
He that pursueth rightfulness [or followeth rightwiseness] and mercy, shall find life [and rightwiseness] and glory.
Mercy and truth forsake thee not; bind thou those to thy throat, and write them in the tables of thine heart.
Strive thou not against a man without cause, when he doeth none evil to thee.
Pursue thou not an unjust [or unrightwise] man, pursue [or follow] thou not his ways.
For each deceiver is abomination to the Lord; and his speaking is with simple men.
Neediness is sent of the Lord in the house of a wicked man; but the dwelling places of just [or rightwise] men shall be blessed.
He shall scorn [the] scorners; and he shall give grace to mild men.
Wise men shall have glory; [the] enhancing of fools is shame.
And thou shalt find grace, and good teaching before God and men.
Also women be they subject to their husbands; that if any man, that is, husbands, believe not to the word, by the conversation of women they be won without word.
For he that will love life, and see good days, constrain his tongue from evil, and his lips, that they speak not guile [or that they speak no guile].
And bow he from evil, and do good; seek he peace, and perfectly follow it.
For the eyes of the Lord be on just men, and his ears on the prayers of them; but the cheer [or the face] of the Lord is on men that do evils.
And who is it that shall annoy you, if ye be pursuers and lovers of goodness?
But also if ye suffer anything for rightwiseness, ye be blessed; but dread ye not the dread of them, that ye be not disturbed [or distroubled].
But hallow ye the Lord Christ in your hearts, and evermore be ye ready to [do] satisfaction to each man asking you reason of that faith and hope that is in you, but with mildness, and dread,
having good conscience; that in that thing that they backbite of you, they be confounded, which challenge falsely your good conversation in Christ.
For it is better that ye do well, and suffer, if the will of God will, than doing evil. [Soothly it is better, if the will of God will, ye well-doing, to suffer, than evil-doing.]
For also Christ once died for our sins, he just for unjust, that he should offer to God us [or should offer us to God], made dead in flesh, but made quick in Spirit.
For which thing he came in Spirit, and also to them that were enclosed together in prison;
And behold ye in dread your holy conversation.
which were sometime unbelieve-ful, when they abided the patience of God in the days of Noah, when the ship [or the ark] was made, in which a few, that is to say, eight souls were made safe by water.
And so baptism of like form maketh us safe; not the putting away of the filths of flesh, but the asking of a good conscience in God, by the again-rising of our Lord Jesus Christ,
that is in the right half of God, and swalloweth death, that we should be made heirs of everlasting life. He went into heaven, and angels, and powers, and virtues be made subject to him.
Of whom be there not without-forth curious adorning of hair, either doing about of gold, either adorning of clothing;
but that that is the hid man of heart, in uncorruption, and of mild spirit, [or in uncorruptibility of quiet and mild spirit], which is rich in the sight of God.
For so sometime holy women hoping in God adorned themselves, and were subject to their own husbands.
As Sarah obeyed to Abraham, and called him lord; of whom ye be daughters well-doing, and not dreading any perturbation.
Also men dwell together, and by knowing [or science], give ye honour to the woman’s frailty, [or to her vessel], as to the more feeble, and as to even-heirs of grace and of life, that your prayers be not hindered.
Who shall find a strong woman? the price of her is [a] far, and from the last [or utmost] ends.
In this thing is charity, not as we had loved God, but for he first loved us, and sent his Son forgiveness [or helping] for our sins.
before all things have ye charity each to other in yourselves always lasting; for charity covereth the multitude of sins.
And the Lord God said, It is not good that a man be alone; make we to him an helper like to himself.
An house shall be builded by wisdom, and it shall be made strong by prudence, or understanding.
Use thou life with the wife which thou lovest, in all the days of the life of thine unstableness, that be given to thee under the sun, in all the time of thy vanity; for this is thy part in thy life and [thy] travail, by which thou travailest under the sun.
and will to be teachers of the law, and understand not what things they speak, neither of what things they affirm.
If I speak with tongues of men and of angels, and I have not charity, I am made as brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling.
Charity is patient, it is benign; charity envieth not, it doeth not wickedly, it is not blown [with pride],
it is not covetous, [or ambitious, or covetous of worships], it seeketh not those things that be his own [or her own], it is not stirred to wrath, it thinketh not evil,
it joyeth not on [or in] wicked-ness, but it joyeth together to [or with] truth;
it suffereth all things, it believeth all things, it hopeth all things, it sustaineth all things.
Ye have heard that it was said to old men, Thou shalt not do lechery.
But I say to you, that every man that seeth a woman [for] to covet her, hath now done lechery by her in his heart.
Set thou me as a signet on thine heart, as a signet on thine arm; for love is strong as death, envy is hard as hell; the lamps thereof be [the] lamps of fire, and of flames.
Many waters be not able to quench charity, neither floods shall oppress it. Though a man give all the chattel of his house for love, he shall despise, or reckon it, as nought.
And God made of nought a man to his image and likeness; God made of nought a man, to the image of God; God made of nought them, male and female.
And God blessed them, and said, Increase ye, and be ye multiplied, and fill ye the earth, and make ye it subject; and be ye lords to the fishes of the sea, and to [the] volatiles of heaven, and to all living beasts that be moved on [the] earth.
Who shall find a strong woman? the price of her is [a] far, and from the last [or utmost] ends.
The heart of her husband trusteth in her; and he shall not have need to robberies.
She shall yield to him good, and not evil, in all the days of her life.
with all meekness and mildness, with patience supporting each other in charity,
But ye have not so learned Christ,
if nevertheless ye heard him, and be taught in him, as is truth in Jesus.
Do ye away by the old living [or after the first living], the old man, that is corrupt by the desires of error;
and be ye renewed [or made new again] in the spirit of your soul;
and clothe ye the new man, which is made after God in rightwiseness and holiness of truth.
For which thing put ye away leasing, and speak ye truth each man with his neighbour, for we be members each to other [or together].
Be ye wroth, and do not do sin [or do not ye sin]; the sun fall not down on your wrath.
Do not ye give stead to the devil.
He that stole, now steal he not; but more rather travail he in working with his hands that that is good, that he have whereof he shall give to the needy.
Each evil word go not out of your mouth; but if any is good to the edification of faith, that it give grace to men that hear.
busy to keep unity of Spirit in the bond of peace.
But for fornication each man have his own wife, and each woman have her own husband.
Each man in what calling he is called, in that dwell he.
Thou [a] servant art called, be it no charge to thee; but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.
He that is a servant, and is called in the Lord, is a free man of the Lord. Also he that is a free man, and is called, is the servant of Christ.
With price ye be bought; do not ye be made servants of men.
Therefore each man in what thing he is called a brother, dwell he in this with God.
But of virgins I have no command-ment of God; but I give counsel, as he that hath gotten mercy of the Lord, that I be true.
Therefore I guess, that this thing is good for the present need; for it is good to [or for] a man to be so.
Thou art bound to a wife, do not thou seek unbinding; thou art unbound from a wife, do not thou seek a wife.
But if thou hast taken a wife, thou hast not sinned; and if a maiden is wedded, she sinned not; nevertheless such shall have tribulation of flesh. But I spare you.
Therefore, brethren, I say this thing, The time is short. Another is this, that they that have wives, be as though they had none;
The husband yield debt to the wife, and also the wife to the husband.
and they that weep, as they wept not; and they that joy, as they joyed not; and they that buy, as they had not;
and they that use this world, as they that use [it] not. For why the figure, [or fairness], of this world passeth.
But I will, that ye be without busyness, for he that is without wife, is busy what things be of the Lord, how he shall please God.
But he that is with a wife, is busy what things be of the world, how he shall please the wife [or his wife], and he is parted.
And a woman unwedded and [a] maiden thinketh what things be of the Lord, that she be holy in body and spirit. But she that is wedded, thinketh what things be of the world, how she shall please the husband [or her husband].
And I say these things to your profit, not that I cast to you a snare, but to that that is seemly, and that giveth easiness [or facility], without hindering to make prayers, [or to beseech], to the Lord.
And if any man guesseth himself to be seen foul on his virgin, that she is full waxen [or is well old], and so it behooveth to be done, do she that that she will [or what he will]; she sinneth not, if she be wedded, [+or s/he sinneth not, if s/he be wedded].
For he that ordained stably, [or steadfastly], in his heart, not having need, but having power of his will, and hath deemed in his heart this thing, to keep his virgin [or his virginity], doeth well.
Therefore he that joineth his virgin in matrimony, doeth well; and he that joineth not, doeth better.
The woman is bound to the law, as long time as her husband liveth; and if her husband is dead, she is delivered from the law of the husband, be she wedded to whom she will, only in the Lord.
The woman hath not power of her body, but the husband; and the husband hath not power of his body, but the woman [or the wife].
But she shall be more blessed, if she dwelleth thus, after my counsel; and I ween, that I have the Spirit of God.
Do not ye defraud each to other, but peradventure of consent for a time, that ye give attention to prayer; and again turn again to the same thing, lest Satan tempt you for your uncontinence.
[ful] fill ye my joy, that ye under-stand the same thing, and have the same charity, of one will, and feel the same thing;
For I have no man so of one will, that is busy for you with clean affection.
For all men seek those things that be their own, not those that be of Christ Jesus.
But know ye the assay of him, for as a son to the father he hath served with me in the gospel.
Therefore I hope that I shall send him to you, anon as I see what things be about me.
And I trust in the Lord, that also myself shall come to you soon.
And I guessed it needful to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and even-worker, and mine even-knight, but your apostle, and the minister of my need.
For he desired you all, and he was sorrowful, therefore that ye heard that he was sick.
For he was sick to the death, but God had mercy on him; and not only on him, but also on me, lest I had heaviness on heaviness.
Therefore more hastily I sent him, that when ye have seen him, ye have joy again, and I be without heaviness.
Therefore receive ye him with all joy in the Lord, and have ye such with all honour.
nothing [doing] by strife, neither by vain glory, but in meekness, deeming each other to be higher [in virtue] than himself;
For the work of Christ he went to death, giving his life, that he should fulfill that that failed of you with my service.
not beholding each by himself what things be his own, but those things that be of other men.
loving together the charity of brotherhood. Each come before to worship other [or Coming before together in honour];
For, brethren, ye be called into freedom [or into liberty]; only give ye not freedom [or liberty] into occasion of flesh, but by charity of [the] Spirit serve ye together.
Therefore I will, that younger widows be wedded, and bring forth children, and be housewives, to give none occasion to the adversary, because of cursed thing.
The song of degrees of Solomon. No but or But if the Lord build the house; they that built it have travailed in vain. No but or But if the Lord keepeth the city; he waketh in vain that keepeth it.
The husband yield debt to the wife, and also the wife to the husband.
and they that weep, as they wept not; and they that joy, as they joyed not; and they that buy, as they had not;
and they that use this world, as they that use [it] not. For why the figure, [or fairness], of this world passeth.
But I will, that ye be without busyness, for he that is without wife, is busy what things be of the Lord, how he shall please God.
But he that is with a wife, is busy what things be of the world, how he shall please the wife [or his wife], and he is parted.
And a woman unwedded and [a] maiden thinketh what things be of the Lord, that she be holy in body and spirit. But she that is wedded, thinketh what things be of the world, how she shall please the husband [or her husband].
And I say these things to your profit, not that I cast to you a snare, but to that that is seemly, and that giveth easiness [or facility], without hindering to make prayers, [or to beseech], to the Lord.
And if any man guesseth himself to be seen foul on his virgin, that she is full waxen [or is well old], and so it behooveth to be done, do she that that she will [or what he will]; she sinneth not, if she be wedded, [+or s/he sinneth not, if s/he be wedded].
For he that ordained stably, [or steadfastly], in his heart, not having need, but having power of his will, and hath deemed in his heart this thing, to keep his virgin [or his virginity], doeth well.
Therefore he that joineth his virgin in matrimony, doeth well; and he that joineth not, doeth better.
The woman is bound to the law, as long time as her husband liveth; and if her husband is dead, she is delivered from the law of the husband, be she wedded to whom she will, only in the Lord.
The woman hath not power of her body, but the husband; and the husband hath not power of his body, but the woman [or the wife].
But she shall be more blessed, if she dwelleth thus, after my counsel; and I ween, that I have the Spirit of God.
Do not ye defraud each to other, but peradventure of consent for a time, that ye give attention to prayer; and again turn again to the same thing, lest Satan tempt you for your uncontinence.
Which answered, and said to them, have ye not read, for he that made men at the beginning, made them male and female?
And he said, for this thing a man shall leave father and mother, and he shall draw [or cleave] to his wife; and they shall be twain in one flesh.
And so they be not now twain, but one flesh. Therefore man separate [or part] not that thing that God hath joined, [or knit together].
But to them that be joined in matrimony, I command, not I, but the Lord, that the wife depart not from the husband;
and that if she departeth, that she dwell unwedded, or be reconciled to her husband; and the husband forsake not the wife.
And it hath been said, Whoever leaveth his wife, give he to her a libel [or a little book] of forsaking.
But I say to you, that every man that leaveth his wife, except [the] cause of fornication, maketh her to do lechery, and he that weddeth the forsaken wife, doeth adultery.
The love of thy neighbour worketh not evil; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
For if any man hath not care of his own, and mostly of his household men or meine, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unfaithful, [or heathen], man.
But the fruit of the Spirit is charity, joy, peace, patience, long abiding, benignity, [or good will], goodness, mildness, faith,
temperance, continence, chastity; against such things is no law.
Houses and riches be given of father and mother; but a prudent wife is given properly of the Lord.
My sister spousess, thou hast wounded mine heart; thou hast wounded mine heart, in one of thine eyes, and in one hair of thy neck.
And the speeches of my mouth shall be such, that they please; and the thinking of mine heart is ever[more] in thy sight. Lord, mine helper; and mine again-buyer.