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 permitted me, but not all do profit. All is permitted me, but I shall not be under authority of any.

So then subject yourselves to Elohim. Resist the devil and he shall flee from you.

In the freedom with which Messiah has made us free, stand firm, then, and do not again be held with a yoke of slavery.

Watch and pray, lest you enter into trial. The spirit indeed is eager, but the flesh is weak.

Be sober, watch, because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

‘And do not lead us into trial, but deliver us from the wicked one – because Yours is the reign and the power and the esteem, forever. Amĕn.’

Be not among heavy drinkers of wine Or with gluttonous eaters of meat;For the drunkard and the glutton become poor, And slumber puts rags on a man.

Do not be led astray, “Evil company corrupts good habits.”

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who feels hurt without cause? Who has redness of eyes?Do not desire his delicacies, For that food is deceptive.Those staying long at the wine, Those going in to search out mixed wine.Do not look on the wine when it is red, When it gives its colour in the cup, As it flows smoothly;In the end it bites like a snake, And stings like an adder –

יהושע answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone doing sin is a servant of sin.

For if we have come to be grown together in the likeness of His death, we shall be also of the resurrection,knowing this, that our old man was impaled with Him, so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, to serve sin no longer.

“If, then, the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.

No trial has overtaken you except such as is common to man, and Elohim is trustworthy, who shall not allow you to be tried beyond what you are able, but with the trial shall also make the way of escape, enabling you to bear it.

For the saving Gift of Elohim has appeared to all men,instructing us to renounce wickedness and worldly lusts, and to live sensibly, righteously, and reverently in the present age,

but put on the Master יהושע Messiah, and make no provision for the lusts of the flesh.

Wine is a scoffer, strong drink a brawler, And whoever is led astray by it is not wise.

And the works of the flesh are well-known, which are these: adultery, whoring, uncleanness, indecency,See, I, Sha’ul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Messiah shall be of no use to you.idolatry, drug sorcery, hatred, quarrels, jealousies, fits of rage, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions,envy, murders, drunkenness, wild parties, and the like – of which I forewarn you, even as I also said before, that those who practise such as these shall not inherit the reign of Elohim.

A man who has no control over his spirit Is like a broken-down city without a wall.

As a dog returns to his own vomit, So a fool repeats his folly.

Not for sovereigns, O Lemu’ĕl, Not for sovereigns to drink wine, Nor for princes to desire strong drink;Lest they drink and forget what is inscribed, And pervert the right of all the afflicted.

I searched in my heart how to stimulate my body with wine, while guiding my heart with wisdom, and how to lay hold on folly, until I could see what was good for the sons of men to do under the heavens all the days of their lives.

Woe to those who rise early in the morning pursuing strong drink, who stay up late at night – wine inflames them!

Woe to the mighty to drink wine, and brave men to mix strong drink,

And these too have gone astray through wine, and through strong drink wandered about. Priest and prophet have gone astray through strong drink, they are swallowed up by wine, they wander about through strong drink, they go astray in vision, they stumble in right-ruling.For all tables shall be covered with vomit, no place without filth.

Feeding on ashes, a deceived heart turns him aside, and he does not deliver his being, nor says, “Is there not a lie in my right hand?”

“Whoring, and wine, and new wine enslave the heart.

Woe to those plotting wickedness, and working out evil upon their beds! In the light of the morning they practise it, because it is in the might of their hand.

No one is able to serve two masters, for either he shall hate the one and love the other, or else he shall cleave to the one and despise the other. You are not able to serve Elohim and mammon.

“Come to Me, all you who labour and are burdened, and I shall give you rest.“Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am meek and humble in heart, and you shall find rest for your beingsand said to Him, “Are You the Coming One, or do we look for another?”“For My yoke is gentle and My burden is light.”

and the worries of this age, and the deceit of riches, and the desires for other matters, entering in, choke the word, and it becomes fruitless.

And He said to them, “Mind, and beware of greed, because one’s life does not consist in the excess of his possessions.”

“No servant is able to serve two masters, for either he shall hate the one and love the other, or else he shall cling to the one and despise the other. You are not able to serve Elohim and mammon.”

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its desires,

Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves servants for obedience, you are servants of the one whom you obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

I speak as a man, because of the weakness of your flesh. For even as you did present your members as servants of uncleanness, and of lawlessness resulting in lawlessness, so now present your members as servants of righteousness resulting in set-apartness.

For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, dwells no good. For to wish is present with me, but to work the good I do not find.For the good that I wish to do, I do not do; but the evil I do not wish to do, this I practise.For the married woman has been bound by Torah to the living husband, but if the husband dies, she is released from the Torah concerning her husband.And if I do that which I do not wish, it is no longer I who work it, but the sin dwelling in me.

I call upon you, therefore, brothers, through the compassion of Elohim, to present your bodies a living offering – set-apart, well-pleasing to Elohim – your reasonable worship.In brotherly love, tenderly loving towards one another, in appreciation, giving preference to each other;not idle in duty, ardent in spirit, serving the Master;rejoicing in the expectancy, enduring under pressure, continuing steadfastly in prayer;imparting to the needs of the set-apart ones, pursuing kindness towards strangers.Bless those who persecute you – bless and do not curse.Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.Be of the same mind toward one another. Do not be proud in mind, but go along with the lowly. Do not be wise in your own estimation.Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is right in the sight of all men.If possible, on your part, be at peace with all men.Beloved, do not revenge yourselves, but give place to the wrath, for it has been written, “Vengeance is Mine, I shall repay,” says יהוה.And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you prove what is that good and well-pleasing and perfect desire of Elohim.

Let us walk becomingly, as in the day, not in wild parties and drunkenness, not in living together and indecencies, not in fighting and envy,but put on the Master יהושע Messiah, and make no provision for the lusts of the flesh.

Do you not know that you are a Dwelling Place of Elohim and that the Spirit of Elohim dwells in you?If anyone destroys the Dwelling Place of Elohim, Elohim shall destroy him. For the Dwelling Place of Elohim is set-apart, which you are.

Or do you not know that your body is the Dwelling Place of the Set-apart Spirit who is in you, which you have from Elohim, and you are not your own?Do you not know that the set-apart ones shall judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?For you were bought with a price, therefore esteem Elohim in your body and in your spirit, which are of Elohim.

Do you not know that those who run in a race indeed all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to obtain it.And everyone who competes controls himself in every way. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we for an incorruptible crown.Therefore I run accordingly, not with uncertainty. Thus I fight, not as one who beats the air.But I treat my body severely and make it my slave, lest having proclaimed to others, I myself might be rejected.

All is permitted me, but not all do profit. All is permitted me, but not all build up.

Therefore, if anyone is in Messiah, he is a renewed creature – the old matters have passed away, see, all matters have become renewed!

And what union has the Dwelling Place of Elohim with idols? For you are a Dwelling Place of the living Elohim, as Elohim has said, “I shall dwell in them and walk among them, and I shall be their Elohim, and they shall be My people."Therefore, “Come out from among them and be separate, says יהוה, and do not touch what is unclean, and I shall receive you.“And I shall be a Father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to Me, says יהוה the Almighty.”

Having, then, these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of the flesh and spirit, perfecting set-apartness in the fear of Elohim.

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.

And I say: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not accomplish the lust of the flesh.For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh. And these are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you desire to do.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, trustworthiness,gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no Torah.

that you put off – with regard to your former behaviour – the old man, being corrupted according to the desires of the deceit,and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,and that you put on the renewed man which was created according to Elohim, in righteousness and set-apartness of the truth.

And do not be drunk with wine, in which is loose behaviour, but be filled with the Spirit,

Their end is destruction, their mighty one is their stomach, and their esteem is in their shame – they mind the earthly.

I have strength to do all, through Messiah who empowers me.

Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: whoring, uncleanness, passion, evil desire and greed of gain, which is idolatry.

But now, also put off all these: displeasure, wrath, evil, blasphemy, filthy talk from your mouth.

So, then, we should not sleep, as others do, but we should watch and be sober.For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night.But we who are of the day should be sober, putting on the breastplate of belief and love, and as a helmet the expectation of deliverance.

Keep back from every form of wickedness.And the Elohim of peace Himself set you completely apart, and your entire spirit, and being, and body - be preserved blameless at the coming of our Master יהושע Messiah!

For Elohim has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but of power and of love and of self-control.

And flee from the lusts of youth, but pursue righteousness, belief, love, peace with those calling on the Master out of a clean heart.

instructing us to renounce wickedness and worldly lusts, and to live sensibly, righteously, and reverently in the present age,

We too, then, having so great a cloud of witnesses all around us, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race set before us,For they indeed disciplined us for a few days as seemed best to them, but He does it for our profit, so that we might share His apartness.And indeed, no discipline seems pleasant at the time, but grievous, but afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.So, strengthen the hands which hang down and the weak knees,and make straight paths for your feet, lest the lame be turned aside, but instead, to be healed.Pursue peace with all, and pursue apartness without which no one shall see the Master.See to it that no one falls short of the favour of Elohim, that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, by which many become defiled,lest there be anyone who whores, or profane one, like Ěsaw, who for a single meal sold his birthright.For you know that afterward, when he wished to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it with tears.For you have not drawn near to a mountain touched and scorched with fire, and to blackness, and darkness and storm,and a sound of a trumpet, and a voice of words, so that those who heard it begged that no further Word should be spoken to them,looking to the Prince and Perfecter of our belief, יהושע, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the stake, having despised the shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of Elohim.

Pursue peace with all, and pursue apartness without which no one shall see the Master.

Let no one say when he is enticed, “I am enticed by Elohim,” for Elohim is not enticed by evil matters, and He entices no one.But each one is enticed when he is drawn away by his own desires and trapped.Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin. And sin, when it has been accomplished, brings forth death.

So then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath,My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into various trials,for the wrath of man does not work the righteousness of Elohim.Therefore put away all filthiness and overflow of evil, and receive with meekness the implanted Word, which is able to save your lives.

Therefore, having girded up the loins of your mind, being sober, set your expectation perfectly upon the favour that is to be brought to you at the revelation of יהושע Messiah,as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts in your ignorance,instead, as the One who called you is set-apart, so you also should become set-apart in all behaviour,

Beloved ones, I appeal to you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts which battle against the being,

Therefore, since Messiah suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, because he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,As each one has received a gift, serve one another, as good trustees of the manifold favour of Elohim.If anyone speaks, let it be as the Words of Elohim. If anyone serves, let it be as with the strength which Elohim provides, so that Elohim might be praised in it all through יהושע Messiah, to whom belong the esteem and the rule forever and ever. Amĕn.Beloved ones, do not be surprised at the fiery trial that is coming upon you, to try you, as though some unusual matter has befallen you,but as you share Messiah’s sufferings, rejoice, in order that you might rejoice exultingly at the revelation of His esteem.If you are reproached for the Name of Messiah, you are blessed, because the Spirit of esteem and of Elohim rests upon you. On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He is praised.For do not let any of you suffer as a murderer, or thief, or doer of evil, or as a meddler.But if one suffers being ‘messianist’, let him not be ashamed, but let him esteem Elohim in this matter.Because it is time for judgment to begin from the House of Elohim. And if firstly from us, what is the end of those who do not obey the Good News of Elohim?And if the righteous one is scarcely saved, where shall the wicked and the sinner appear?So then, those who suffer according to the desire of Elohim should commit their lives to a trustworthy Creator, in doing good.so that he no longer lives the rest of his time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but according to the desire of Elohim.For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the desire of the nations, having walked in indecencies, lusts, drunkenness, orgies, wild parties, and abominable idolatries,

Be sober, watch, because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.Resist him, firm in the belief, knowing that the same hardships are experienced by your brotherhood in the world.

And for this reason do your utmost to add to your belief uprightness, to uprightness knowledge,to knowledge self-control, to self-control endurance, to endurance reverence,to reverence brotherly affection, and to brotherly affection love.

promising them freedom, though themselves being slaves of corruption – for one is a slave to whatever overcomes him.

Do not love the world nor that which is in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.Because all that is in the world – the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life – is not of the Father but is of the world.And the world passes away, and the lust of it, but the one doing the desire of Elohim remains forever.

The one doing sin is of the devil, because the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of Elohim was manifested: to destroy the works of the devil.

because everyone having been born of Elohim overcomes the world. And this is the overcoming that has overcome the world: our belief.Who is the one who overcomes the world but he who believes that יהושע is the Son of Elohim?

We know that everyone having been born of Elohim does not sin, but the one having been born of Elohim guards himself, and the wicked one does not touch him.

Watch over your heart with all diligence, For out of it are the sources of life.

Blessed is the man who shall not walk in the counsel of the wrong, And shall not stand in the path of sinners, And shall not sit in the seat of scoffers,But his delight is in the Torah of יהוה, And he meditates in His Torah day and night.For he shall be as a tree Planted by the rivers of water, That yields its fruit in its season, And whose leaf does not wither, And whatever he does prospers.

יהוה is my shepherd; I do not lack.He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside still waters.He turns back my being; He leads me in paths of righteousness For His Name’s sake.

Tsadi The righteous cried out, and יהוה heard, And delivered them out of all their distresses.Qoph יהוה is near to the broken-hearted, And saves those whose spirit is crushed.

Create in me a clean heart, O Elohim, And renew a steadfast spirit within me.Do not cast me away from Your presence, And do not take Your Set-apart Spirit from me.Restore to me the joy of Your deliverance, And uphold me, Noble Spirit!

And they cried out to יהוה in their distress, And He saved them out of their troubles.He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, And He broke their chains in pieces.

Do not fear, for I am with you. Do not look around, for I am your Elohim. I shall fortify you, I shall also help you, I shall also uphold you with the right hand of My righteousness.’

“Is this not the fast that I have chosen: to loosen the tight cords of wrongness, to undo the bands of the yoke, to exempt the oppressed, and to break off every yoke?

For I know the plans I am planning for you,’ declares יהוה, ‘plans of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and an expectancy.

“And I shall give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you. And I shall take the heart of stone out of your flesh, and I shall give you a heart of flesh,and put My Spirit within you. And I shall cause you to walk in My laws and guard My right-rulings and shall do them.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, because they shall be filled.

And if your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is better for you that one of your members perish, than for your entire body to be thrown into GĕHinnom.“Blessed are the poor in spirit, because theirs is the reign of the heavens.“And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away from you. For it is better for you that one of your members perish, than for your entire body to be thrown into GĕHinnom.

But seek first the reign of Elohim, and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

And looking intently יהושע said to them, “With men this is impossible, but with Elohim all is possible.”

“because with Elohim no matter shall be impossible.

“The Spirit of יהוה is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to bring the Good News to the poor. He has sent Me to heal the broken-hearted, to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to send away crushed ones with a release,

“For Elohim so loved the world that He gave His only brought-forth Son, so that everyone who believes in Him should not perish but possess everlasting life.“For Elohim did not send His Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

And the Torah came in beside, so that the trespass would increase. But where sin increased, favour increased still more,

There is, then, now no condemnation to those who are in Messiah יהושע, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.And if Messiah is in you, the body is truly dead on account of sin, but the Spirit is life on account of righteousness.And if the Spirit of Him who raised יהושע from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Messiah from the dead shall also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit dwelling in you.So then, brothers, we are not debtors to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.For if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you shall live.For as many as are led by the Spirit of Elohim, these are sons of Elohim.For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.”The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of Elohim,and if children, also heirs – truly heirs of Elohim, and co-heirs with Messiah, if indeed we suffer with Him, in order that we also be exalted together.For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the esteem that is to be revealed in us.For the intense longing of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of Elohim.For the torah of the Spirit of the life in Messiah יהושע has set me free from the torah of sin and of death.

But in all this we are more than overcomers through Him who loved us.

Therefore, my beloved ones, flee from idolatry.

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not fight according to the flesh.For the weapons we fight with are not fleshly but mighty in Elohim for overthrowing strongholds,overthrowing reasonings and every high matter that exalts itself against the knowledge of Elohim, taking captive every thought to make it obedient to the Messiah,

For the rest, my brothers, be strong in the Master and in the mightiness of His strength.Put on the complete armour of Elohim, for you to have power to stand against the schemes of the devil.

being persuaded of this, that He who has begun a good work in you shall perfect it until the day of יהושע Messiah.

Do not worry at all, but in every matter, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to Elohim.And the peace of Elohim, which surpasses all understanding, shall guard your hearts and minds through Messiah יהושע.

And my Elohim shall fill all your need according to His riches in esteem by Messiah יהושע.

For we do not have a High Priest unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who was tried in all respects as we are, apart from sin.Therefore, let us come boldly to the throne of favour, in order to receive compassion, and find favour for timely help.

Let us hold fast the confession of our expectation without yielding, for He who promised is trustworthy.

And the prayer of the belief shall save the sick, and the Master shall raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he shall be forgiven.Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, so that you are healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous one accomplishes much.

And He who was sitting on the throne said, “See, I make all matters new.” And He said to me, “Write, for these words are true and trustworthy.”

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