Category
104 Bible Verses about Addiction
Vices have serious consequences, not just physically, but spiritually too. They can really tie you down. You might think it's impossible to break free from whatever's got a hold of you, but I want to share the best antidote there is: the blood of Jesus.
When you come to Him and ask for His help, He's faithful and just to strengthen you in your weaknesses. It's not about your own power, because you can't do it on your own. It's about Christ's transforming power working in you.
So don't give up. As long as you're still breathing, there's hope. Jesus can change your life and make you a new person if you just ask Him and seek Him. You can do all things through Christ who strengthens you.
As the Bible says in Isaiah 5:11 (NIV): "Woe to those who rise early in the morning to run after their drinks, who stay up late at night till they are inflamed with wine."
All is lawful to me, but not all is expedient. All is lawful to me, but I will not be driven back by the authority of anyone.
Be vigilant and pray, so that you may not enter into temptation. Indeed, the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."
Be sober and vigilant. For your adversary, the devil, is like a roaring lion, traveling around and seeking those whom he might devour.
Do not be willing to be in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in the carousings of those who gather to feed on flesh.For those who waste time drinking, and who surrender themselves to symbols, will be consumed. And those who sleep will be clothed in rags.
Who has woe? Whose father has woe? Who has quarrels? Who falls into pits? Who has wounds without cause? Who has watery eyes?Do not desire his foods, in which is the bread of deceit.Is it not those who linger over wine, and who strive to be drinking from their cups?Do not gaze into the wine when it turns gold, when its color shines in the glass. It enters pleasantly,but in the end, it will bite like a snake, and it will spread poison like a king of snakes.
Jesus answered them: "Amen, amen, I say to you, that everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.
For if we have been planted together, in the likeness of his death, so shall we also be, in the likeness of his resurrection.For we know this: that our former selves have been crucified together with him, so that the body which is of sin may be destroyed, and moreover, so that we may no longer serve sin.
Temptation should not take hold of you, except what is human. For God is faithful, and he will not permit you to be tempted beyond your ability. Instead, he will effect his Providence, even during temptation, so that you may be able to bear it.
For the grace of God our Savior has appeared to all men,instructing us to reject impiety and worldly desires, so that we may live soberly and justly and piously in this age,
Instead, be clothed with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in its desires.
It is a luxurious thing, wine, and inebriation is tumultuous. Anyone who is delighted by this will not be wise.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest; they are: fornication, lust, homosexuality, self-indulgence,Behold, I, Paul, say to you, that if you have been circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you.the serving of idols, drug use, hostility, contentiousness, jealousy, wrath, quarrels, dissensions, divisions,envy, murder, inebriation, carousing, and similar things. About these things, I continue to preach to you, as I have preached to you: that those who act in this way shall not obtain the kingdom of God.
Just like a city lying in the open and without surrounding walls, so also is a man who is unable to restrain his own spirit in speaking.
Like a dog that returns to his vomit, so also is the imprudent who repeats his foolishness.
Not to kings, O Lamuel, not to kings give wine. For there are no secrets where drunkenness reigns.And perhaps they may drink and forget judgments, and alter the case of the sons of the poor.
I decided in my heart to withdraw my flesh from wine, so that I might bring my mind to wisdom, and turn away from foolishness, until I see what is useful for the sons of men, and what they ought to do under the sun, during the number of the days of their life.
Woe to you who rise up in the morning to pursue drunkenness, and to drink even until evening, so as to be inflamed with wine.
Woe to you who are powerful at drinking wine, who are strong men in contriving inebriation!
Yet truly, these also have been ignorant due to wine, and they have gone astray due to inebriation. The priest and the prophet have been ignorant because of inebriation. They have been absorbed by wine. They have staggered in drunkenness. They have not known the One who sees. They have been ignorant of judgment.For all the tables have been filled with vomit and filth, so much so that there was no place left.
Part of it is ashes. His foolish heart adores it. And he will not liberate his soul, and he will not say, "Perhaps there is a lie in my right hand."
Woe to you who devise useless things and who work evil in your beds. In the morning light, they undertake it, because their hand is against God.
No one is able to serve two masters. For either he will have hatred for the one, and love the other, or he will persevere with the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.
Come to me, all you who labor and have been burdened, and I will refresh you.Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you shall find rest for your souls."Are you he who is to come, or should we expect another?"For my yoke is sweet and my burden is light."
but worldly tasks, and the deception of riches, and desires about other things enter in and suffocate the word, and it is effectively without fruit.
So he said to them: "Be cautious and wary of all avarice. For a person's life is not found in the abundance of the things that he possesses."
No servant is able to serve two lords. For either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will cling to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon."
Do you not know to whom you are offering yourselves as servants under obedience? You are the servants of whomever you obey: whether of sin, unto death, or of obedience, unto justice.
I am speaking in human terms because of the infirmity of your flesh. For just as you offered the parts of your body to serve impurity and iniquity, for the sake of iniquity, so also have you now yielded the parts of your body to serve justice, for the sake of sanctification.
For I know that what is good does not live within me, that is, within my flesh. For the willingness to do good lies close to me, but the carrying out of that good, I cannot reach.For I do not do the good that I want to do. But instead, I do the evil that I do not want to do.For example, a woman who is subject to a husband is obligated by the law while her husband lives. But when her husband has died, she is released from the law of her husband.Now if I do what I am not willing to do, it is no longer I who am doing it, but the sin which lives within me.
And so, I beg you, brothers, by the mercy of God, that you offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, with the subservience of your mind.loving one another with fraternal charity, surpassing one another in honor:in solicitude, not lazy; in spirit, fervent; serving the Lord;in hope, rejoicing; in tribulation, enduring; in prayer, ever-willing;in the difficulties of the saints, sharing; in hospitality, attentive.Bless those who are persecuting you: bless, and do not curse.Rejoice with those who are rejoicing. Weep with those who are weeping.Be of the same mind toward one another: not savoring what is exalted, but consenting in humility. Do not choose to seem wise to yourself.Render to no one harm for harm. Provide good things, not only in the sight of God, but also in the sight of all men.If it is possible, in so far as you are able, be at peace with all men.Do not defend yourselves, dearest ones. Instead, step aside from wrath. For it is written: "Vengeance is mine. I shall give retribution, says the Lord."And do not choose to be conformed to this age, but instead choose to be reformed in the newness of your mind, so that you may demonstrate what is the will of God: what is good, and what is well-pleasing, and what is perfect.
Let us walk honestly, as in the daylight, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in promiscuity and sexual immorality, not in contention and envy.Instead, be clothed with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in its desires.
Do you not know that you are the Temple of God, and that the Spirit of God lives within you?But if anyone violates the Temple of God, God will destroy him. For the Temple of God is holy, and you are that Temple.
Or do you not know that your bodies are the Temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?Or do you not know that the saints from this age shall judge it? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you unworthy, then, to judge even the smallest matters?For you have been bought at a great price. Glorify and carry God in your body.
Do you not know that, of those who run in a race, all of them, certainly, are runners, but only one achieves the prize. Similarly, you must run, so that you may achieve.And one who competes in a contest abstains from all things. And they do this, of course, so that they may achieve a corruptible crown. But we do this, so that we may achieve what is incorruptible.And so I run, but not with uncertainty. And so I fight, but not by flailing in the air.Instead, I chastise my body, so as to redirect it into servitude. Otherwise, I might preach to others, but become myself an outcast.
So if anyone is a new creature in Christ, what is old has passed away. Behold, all things have been made new.
And what consensus does the temple of God have with idols? For you are the temple of the living God, just as God says: "I will dwell with them, and I will walk among them. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.Because of this, you must depart from their midst and be separate, says the Lord. And do not touch what is unclean.Then I will accept you. And I will be a Father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty."
Therefore, having these promises, most beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of the flesh and of the spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God.
For you, brothers, have been called to liberty. Only you must not make liberty into an occasion for the flesh, but instead, serve one another through the charity of the Spirit.
So then, I say: Walk in the spirit, and you will not fulfill the desires of the flesh.For the flesh desires against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh. And since these are against one another, you may not do whatever you want.
But the fruit of the Spirit is charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, forbearance,meekness, faith, modesty, abstinence, chastity. There is no law against such things.
to set aside your earlier behavior, the former man, who was corrupted, by means of desire, unto error,and so be renewed in the spirit of your mind,and so put on the new man, who, in accord with God, is created in justice and in the holiness of truth.
And do not choose to be inebriated by wine, for this is self-indulgence. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit,
Their end is destruction; their god is their belly; and their glory is in their shame: for they are immersed in earthly things.
Therefore, mortify your body, while it is upon the earth. For because of fornication, impurity, lust, evil desires, and avarice, which are a kind of service to idols,
But now you must set aside all these things: anger, indignation, malice, blasphemy, and indecent speech from your mouth.
Therefore, let us not sleep, as the rest do. Instead, we should be vigilant and sober.For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are inebriated, are inebriated in the night.But we, who are of the daylight, should be sober, being clothed with the breastplate of faith and of charity and having, as a helmet, the hope of salvation.
Abstain from every kind of evil.And may the God of peace himself sanctify you through all things, so that your whole spirit and soul and body may be preserved without blame unto the return of our Lord Jesus Christ.
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of virtue, and of love, and of self-restraint.
So then, flee from the desires of your youth, yet truly, pursue justice, faith, hope, charity, and peace, along with those who call upon the Lord from a pure heart.
instructing us to reject impiety and worldly desires, so that we may live soberly and justly and piously in this age,
Furthermore, since we also have so great a cloud of witnesses over us, let us set aside every burden and sin which may surround us, and advance, through patience, to the struggle offered to us.And indeed, for a few days and according to their own wishes, they instructed us. But he does so to our benefit, so that we may receive his sanctification.Now every discipline, in the present time, does not seem a gladness, of course, but a grief. But afterwards, it will repay a most peaceful fruit of justice to those who become trained in it.Because of this, lift up your lazy hands and your lax knees,and straighten the path of your feet, so that no one, being lame, may wander astray, but instead may be healed.Pursue peace with everyone. Pursue sanctity, without which no one shall see God.Be contemplative, lest anyone lack the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness spring up and impede you, and by it, many might be defiled,lest any fornicator or worldly person be like Esau, who, for the sake of one meal, sold his birthright.For you know that afterwards, when he desired to inherit the benediction, he was rejected. For he found no place for repentance, even though he had sought it with tears.But you have not drawn near to a tangible mountain, or a burning fire, or a whirlwind, or a mist, or a storm,or the sound of a trumpet, or a voice of words. Those who had experienced these things excused themselves, lest the Word be spoken to them.Let us gaze upon Jesus, as the Author and the completion of our faith, who, having joy laid out before him, endured the cross, disregarding the shame, and who now sits at the right hand of the throne of God.
No one should say, when he is tempted, that he was tempted by God. For God does not entice toward evils, and he himself tempts no one.Yet truly, each one is tempted by his own desires, having been enticed and drawn away.Thereafter, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin. Yet truly sin, when it has been consummated, produces death.
You know this, my most beloved brothers. So let every man be quick to listen, but slow to speak and slow to anger.My brothers, when you have fallen into various trials, consider everything a joy,For the anger of man does not accomplish the justice of God.Because of this, having cast away all uncleanness and an abundance of malice, receive with meekness the newly-grafted Word, which is able to save your souls.
For this reason, gird the waist of your mind, be sober, and hope perfectly in the grace that is offered to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ.Be like sons of obedience, not conforming to the desires of your former ignorance,but in accord with him who has called you: the Holy One. And in every behavior, you yourself must be holy,
Most beloved, I beg you, as new arrivals and sojourners, to abstain from carnal desires, which battle against the soul.
Since Christ has suffered in the flesh, you also should be armed with the same intention. For he who suffers in the flesh desists from sin,Just as each of you has received grace, minister in the same way to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.When anyone speaks, it should be like words of God. When anyone ministers, it should be from the virtue that God provides, so that in all things God may be honored through Jesus Christ. To him is glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.Most beloved, do not choose to sojourn in the passion which is a temptation to you, as if something new might happen to you.But instead, commune in the Passion of Christ, and be glad that, when his glory will be revealed, you too may rejoice with exultation.If you are reproached for the name of Christ, you will be blessed, because that which is of the honor, glory, and power of God, and that which is of his Spirit, rests upon you.But let none of you suffer for being a murderer, or a thief, or a slanderer, or one who covets what belongs to another.But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, he should not be ashamed. Instead, he should glorify God in that name.For it is time that judgment begin at the house of God. And if it is first from us, what shall be the end of those who do not believe the Gospel of God?And if the just man will scarcely be saved, where will the impious and the sinner appear?Therefore, too, let those who suffer according to the will of God commend their souls by good deeds to the faithful Creator.so that now he may live, for the remainder of his time in the flesh, not by the desires of men, but by the will of God.For the time that has passed is sufficient to have fulfilled the will of the Gentiles, those who have walked in luxuries, lusts, intoxication, feasting, drinking, and the illicit worship of idols.
Be sober and vigilant. For your adversary, the devil, is like a roaring lion, traveling around and seeking those whom he might devour.Resist him by being strong in faith, being aware that the same passions afflict those who are your brothers in the world.
But as for you, taking up every concern, minister virtue in your faith; and in virtue, knowledge;and in knowledge, moderation; and in moderation, patience; and in patience, piety;and in piety, love of brotherhood; and in love of brotherhood, charity.
promising them freedoms, while they themselves are the servants of corruption. For by whatever a man is overcome, of this also is he the servant.
Do not choose to love the world, nor the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the charity of the Father is not in him.For all that is in the world is the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the arrogance of a life which is not of the Father, but is of the world.And the world is passing away, with its desire. But whoever does the will of God abides unto eternity.
Whoever commits sin is of the devil. For the devil sins from the beginning. For this reason, the Son of God appeared, so that he might eradicate the works of the devil.
For all that is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that overcomes the world: our faith.Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God!
We know that everyone who is born of God does not sin. Instead, rebirth in God preserves him, and the evil one cannot touch him.
Blessed is the man who has not followed the counsel of the impious, and has not remained in the way of sinners, and has not sat in the chair of pestilence.But his will is with the law of the Lord, and he will meditate on his law, day and night.And he will be like a tree that has been planted beside running waters, which will provide its fruit in its time, and its leaf will not fall away, and all things whatsoever that he does will prosper.
For the First Sabbath. A Psalm of David. The earth and all its fullness belong to the Lord: the whole world and all that dwells in it.Who is this King of Glory? The Lord of virtue. He himself is the King of Glory.For he has founded it upon the seas, and he has prepared it upon the rivers.Who will ascend to the mountain of the Lord? And who will stand in his holy place?
Lord, when will you look down upon me? Restore my soul from before their malice, my only one from before the lions.I will confess to you in a great Church. I will praise you among a weighty people.
But I, like a fruitful olive tree in the house of God, have hoped in the mercy of God unto eternity, and forever and ever.I will confess to you forever, because you have accomplished it. And I will wait on your name, for it is good in the sight of your saints.
Grant us help from tribulation, for vain is the help of man.In God, we will act virtuously, and he will bring our enemies to nothing.
Do not be afraid, for I am with you. Do not turn away, for I am your God. I have strengthened you, and I have assisted you, and the right hand of my just one has upheld you.
Is not this, instead, the kind of fast that I have chosen? Release the constraints of impiety; relieve the burdens that oppress; freely forgive those who are broken; and break apart every burden.
For I know the thoughts that I think over you, says the Lord: thoughts of peace and not of affliction, so that I may give you patience and an end.
And I will give to you a new heart, and I will place in you a new spirit. And I will take away the heart of stone from your body, and I will give to you a heart of flesh.And I will place my Spirit in your midst. And I will act so that you may walk in my precepts and keep my judgments, and so that you may fulfill them.
And if your right eye causes you to sin, root it out and cast it away from you. For it is better for you that one of your members perish, than that your whole body be cast into Hell."Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it away from you. For it is better for you that one of your members perish, than that your whole body go into Hell.
Therefore, seek first the kingdom of God and his justice, and all these things shall be added to you as well.
But Jesus, gazing at them, said to them: "With men, this is impossible. But with God, all things are possible."
"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; because of this, he has anointed me. He has sent me to evangelize the poor, to heal the contrite of heart,
For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life.For God did not send his Son into the world, in order to judge the world, but in order that the world may be saved through him.
Now the law entered in such a way that offenses would abound. But where offenses were abundant, grace was superabundant.
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who are not walking according to the flesh.But if Christ is within you, then the body is indeed dead, concerning sin, but the spirit truly lives, because of justification.But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead lives within you, then he who raised up Jesus Christ from the dead shall also enliven your mortal bodies, by means of his Spirit living within you.Therefore, brothers, we are not debtors to the flesh, so as to live according to the flesh.For if you live according to the flesh, you will die. But if, by the Spirit, you mortify the deeds of the flesh, you shall live.For all those who are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God.And you have not received, again, a spirit of servitude in fear, but you have received the Spirit of the adoption of sons, in whom we cry out: "Abba, Father!"For the Spirit himself renders testimony to our spirit that we are the sons of God.But if we are sons, then we are also heirs: certainly heirs of God, but also co-heirs with Christ, yet in such a way that, if we suffer with him, we shall also be glorified with him.For I consider that the sufferings of this time are not worthy to be compared with that future glory which shall be revealed in us.For the anticipation of the creature anticipates the revelation of the sons of God.For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has freed me from the law of sin and death.
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not battle according to the flesh.For the weapons of our battles are not carnal, yet still they are powerful with God, unto the destruction of fortifications: tearing down every counseland height that extols itself contrary to the wisdom of God, and leading every intellect into the captivity of obedience to Christ,
Concerning the rest, brothers, be strengthened in the Lord, by the power of his virtue.Be clothed in the armor of God, so that you may be able to stand against the treachery of the devil.
I am confident of this very thing: that he who has begun this good work in you will perfect it, unto the day of Christ Jesus.
Be anxious about nothing. But in all things, with prayer and supplication, with acts of thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to God.And so shall the peace of God, which exceeds all understanding, guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
And may my God fulfill all your desires, according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to have compassion on our infirmities, but rather one who was tempted in all things, just as we are, yet without sin.Therefore, let us go forth with confidence toward the throne of grace, so that we may obtain mercy, and find grace, in a helpful time.
Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope, without wavering, for he who has promised is faithful.
And a prayer of faith will save the infirm, and the Lord will alleviate him. And if he has sins, these will be forgiven him.Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, so that you may be saved. For the unremitting prayer of a just person prevails over many things.
And the One who was sitting upon the throne, said, "Behold, I make all things new." And he said to me, "Write, for these words are entirely faithful and true."