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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."
And it shall be in that day, his burden shall be taken away from thy shoulder, and his yoke from thy neck; and the yoke shall wax [all] rotten from the face of oil.
Jesus answered to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, each man that doeth sin, is [the] servant of sin.
All things be leaveful to me, but not all things be speedful. All things be leaveful to me, but I shall not be brought down under any man’s power.
Therefore if any new creature is in Christ, the old things be passed. Lo! all things be made new,
Temptation take not you, but man’s temptation; for God is true, which shall not suffer you to be tempted above that that ye may; but he shall make with temptation also purveyance, that ye may suffer [or sustain].
but be ye clothed in the Lord Jesus Christ, and do ye not the busyness [or the cares] of flesh in desires.
the Lord is my steadfastness, and my refuge, and my deliverer. My God is mine helper; and I shall hope in him. My defender, and the horn of mine health; and mine up-taker.
Wake ye, and pray ye, that ye enter not into temptation; for the spirit is ready, but the flesh is sick, [or unstable, or unsteadfast].
The psalm of David. The Lord governeth me, and nothing shall fail to me;in the place of pasture there he hath set me. He nourished me on the water of refreshing;he converted my soul. He led me forth on the paths of rightfulness [or rightwiseness]; for his name.For why though I shall go in the midst of shadow of death; I shall not dread evils, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff; those have comforted me.
For all thing that is in the world, is covetousness of flesh, and covetousness of eyes, and pride of life, which is not of the Father, but it is of the world.
Have thou trust in the Lord, of all thine heart; and lean thou not to thy prudence.In all thy ways think on him, and he shall dress thy goings.
Just [or rightwise] men cried, and the Lord heard them; and delivered them from all their tribulations.The Lord is nigh [to] them that be of troubled heart; and he shall save meek men in spirit.
Dread thou not, for I am with thee; bow thou not away, for I am thy God. I comforted thee, and helped thee; and the right hand of my just [or rightwise] man up-took thee.
He that dwelleth in the help of the highest God; shall dwell in the protection of God of heaven.Evil shall not come to thee; and a scourge shall not come nigh to thy tabernacle.For God hath commanded to his angels of thee; that they keep thee in all thy ways.They shall bear thee in the hands; lest peradventure thou hurt thy foot at a stone.Thou shalt go upon a snake, and a cockatrice; and thou shalt defoul a lion, and a dragon.For God saith, For he hoped in me, I shall deliver him; I shall defend him, for he knew my name.He cried to me, and I shall hear him; I am with him in tribulation; I shall deliver him, and I shall glorify him.I shall [ful] fill him with the length of days; and I shall show mine health to him.He shall say to the Lord, Thou art mine up-taker, and my refuge; my God, I shall hope in him.
My soul, bless thou the Lord; and do not thou forget all the yieldings of him.Angels of the Lord, bless ye the Lord; ye mighty in virtue, doing his word, to hear the voice of his words.All virtues or hosts of the Lord, bless ye the Lord; ye ministers of him, that do his will.All works of the Lord, bless ye the Lord, in each place of his lord-ship; my soul, bless thou the Lord.Which doeth mercy to all thy wickednesses; which healeth all thy sicknesses.Which again-buyeth thy life from death; which crowneth thee in mercy and merciful doings.
And they cried to the Lord, when they were set in tribulation; and he delivered them from their needinesses.And he led them out of dark-nesses, and [the] shadow of death; and brake the bonds of them.
The which Lord maketh whole men contrite in heart; and bindeth together the sorrows of them.
Whether a man may hide fire in his bosom, that his clothes burn not;either go on coals, and his feet be not burnt?
Wine is a lecherous thing, and drunkenness is full of noise; whoever delighteth in these, shall not be wise.
My son, hear thou, and be wise, and address thy soul in the way.and set thou a coulter in thy throat. If nevertheless thou hast power on thy soul,Do not thou be in the feasts of drinkers, neither in the oft eatings of them, that bring together fleshes to eat.For men giving attention to drinks, and giving morsels together, shall be wasted, and napping shall be clothed with clothes rent.
To whom is woe? to whose father is woe? to whom be chidings? to whom be ditches? to whom be wounds without cause? to whom is putting out of eyes?desire thou not of his meats, in whom is the bread of lying.Whether not to them, that dwell in wine, and study to drink [up] all of cups?Behold thou not [the] wine, when it sparkleth, when the colour thereof shineth in a glass cup. It entereth sweetly,but at the last it shall bite as an adder, and as a cockatrice it shall shed abroad venoms.
As a city open, and without compass of walls; so is a man that may not refrain his spirit in speaking.
The eld [or old] error is gone away; thou shalt keep peace, peace, for thou, Lord, we hoped in thee.Ye have hoped in the Lord, in everlasting worlds, in the Lord God, strong without end.
That giveth strength to the weary, and strength to them that be not, and multiplieth stalworth[y] ness.The voice of a crier in desert [or The voice of the one crying in desert], Make ye ready the way of the Lord, make ye rightful [or right] the paths of our God in wilderness.Young men shall fail, and shall travail, and young men shall fall down in their sickness.But they that hope in the Lord, shall change strength, they shall take feathers as eagles; they shall run, and shall not travail; they shall go, and shall not fail.
For I am thy Lord God, taking thine hand, and saying to thee, Dread thou not, I helped thee.
And now the Lord God, making of nought thee, Jacob, and forming thee, Israel, saith these things, Do not thou dread, for I again-bought thee, and I called thee by thy name; thou art my servant.Verily ye be my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servants, whom I chose; that ye know, and believe to me, and understand, for I myself am; before me is no God former [or before me is not formed God], and after me shall none be.I am, I am the Lord, and without me is no Saviour [or and there is not without me a saviour].I told, and saved; I made hearing, and none alien God was among you. Ye be my witnesses, saith the Lord; and I am God,from the beginning, I myself am, and none there is that delivereth from mine hand; I shall work, and who shall destroy it?The Lord, your again-buyer, the Holy of Israel, saith these things, For you I sent out into Babylon, and I drew down all [the] bars, and [the] Chaldees having glory in their ships.I am the Lord, your Holy, your king, making Israel of nought.The Lord saith these things, that gave [a] way in the sea, and a path in running waters;which led out a cart, and horse, a company, and strong man; they slept together, neither they shall rise again; they be all-broken as flax, and be quenched.Think ye not on the former things, and behold ye not old things.Lo! I make new things, and now those shall begin to be made; soothly ye shall know them. I shall set [a] way in desert, and floods in a land without a way.When thou shalt go by waters, I shall be with thee, and floods shall not cover thee; when thou shalt go in fire, thou shalt not be burnt, and flame shall not burn in thee.
I did away thy wickednesses as a cloud, and thy sins as a mist; turn thou again to me, for I again-bought thee.
Forsooth he was wounded for our wickednesses, he was defouled for our great trespasses; the learning of our peace was on him, and we be made whole by his wanness.
Whether not this is more the fasting, which I choose? Unbind thou the bindings together of unpity, either of cruelty, release thou [the] burdens pressing down; deliver thou them free, that be broken, and break thou each burden.
Lord, heal me, and I shall be healed; make thou me safe, and I shall be safe; for thou art my praising.
For I know the thoughts which I think on you, saith the Lord, the thoughts of peace, and not of torment, that I give to you an end and patience.
And I shall give to you a new heart, and I shall set a new spirit in the midst of you; and I shall do away an heart of stone from your flesh, and I shall give to you an heart of flesh,and I shall set my spirit in the midst of you. And I shall make that ye go in my commandments, and [that ye] keep and work my dooms.
Thou, mine enemy, be not glad on me, for I fell down, I shall rise up again; when I sit in darknesses, the Lord is my light.
Therefore seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his rightwiseness, and all these things shall be cast to you.
All ye that travail, and be charged, come to me, and I shall fulfill [or shall refresh] you.Take ye my yoke on you, and learn ye of me, for I am mild and meek in heart; and ye shall find rest to your souls.and said to him, Art thou he that shall come, or we abide another?For my yoke is soft [or sweet], and my charge is light [or easy].
And Jesus said to her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee safe; go in peace, and be thou whole of thy sickness.
The Spirit of the Lord is [up] on me, for which thing he anointed me; he sent me to preach [or evangelize] to poor men, to heal contrite men in heart, and to preach remission to prisoners [or captives], and sight to blind men, and to deliver broken men into remission;
For God loved so the world [or Forsooth God so loved the world], that he gave his one begotten Son, that each man that believeth in him perish not, but have everlasting life.For God sent not his Son into the world, that he judge the world, but that the world be saved by him.
Therefore again Jesus spake to them, and said, I am the light of the world; he that pursueth me, walketh not in darknesses, but shall have the light of life.
A night thief cometh not, but that he steal, slay, and lose; and I came, that they have life, and have more plenteously.
Peace I leave to you, my peace I give to you; not as the world giveth, I give to you; be not your heart afraid [or troubled], nor dread it.
I am the vine, ye be the branches. Who [or He] that dwelleth in me, and I in him, this beareth much fruit, for without me ye may nothing do.
These things I have spoken to you, that ye have peace in me; in the world ye shall have dis-ease, [or have pressing, or over-laying], but trust ye, I have overcome the world.
But God commendeth his charity in us; for if when we were yet sinners, after the time Christ was dead for us,
witting this thing, that our old man is crucified together, that the body of sin be destroyed, that we serve no more to sin.
Therefore reign not sin in your deadly body, that ye obey to his covetings.Neither give ye your members arms of wickedness to sin, but give ye yourselves to God, as they that live of dead men, and your members arms of rightwiseness to God.
Know ye not, that to whom ye give you servants to obey to, ye be servants of that thing, to which ye have obeyed, either of sin to death, either of obedience to rightwiseness?But I thank God, that ye were servants of sin; but ye have obeyed of heart into that form of teaching, in which ye be betaken.And ye delivered from sin, be made servants of rightwiseness.
Therefore now nothing of condemnation is to them that be in Christ Jesus, which wander not after the flesh.For if Christ is in you, the body is dead for sin [or from sin], but the Spirit liveth for justifying.And if the Spirit of him that raised Jesus Christ from death dwelleth in you, he that raised Jesus Christ from death, shall quicken also your deadly bodies, for the Spirit of him that dwelleth in you.Therefore, brethren, we be debtors, not to the flesh, that we live after the flesh.For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die; but if ye by the Spirit slay the deeds of the flesh, ye shall live.For whoever be led by the Spirit of God, these be the sons of God.For ye have not taken again the spirit of servage in dread, but ye have taken the Spirit of adoption of sons, that is, sons of God by grace, in which we cry, Abba, Father.And that Spirit yieldeth witnessing to our spirit, that we be the sons of God;if sons, and heirs, heirs forsooth of God, and heirs together with Christ; if nevertheless we suffer together, that also we be glorified together.And I deem, that the passions of this time be not even worthy, to the glory to coming [or to come], that shall be showed in us.For the abiding of creature abideth the showing of the sons of God.For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath delivered me from the law of sin, and of death, [or the law of sin, and death].
And if the Spirit of him that raised Jesus Christ from death dwelleth in you, he that raised Jesus Christ from death, shall quicken also your deadly bodies, for the Spirit of him that dwelleth in you.
And we know, that to men that love God, all things work together into good, to them that after purpose be called saints.
Therefore, brethren, I beseech you by the mercy of God, that ye give your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, and your service reasonable.loving together the charity of brotherhood. Each come before to worship other [or Coming before together in honour];not slow in busyness, fervent in spirit, serving to the Lord,joying in hope, patient in tribulation, busy in prayer,giving good to the needs of saints, keeping hospitality.Bless ye men that pursue you; bless ye, and do not ye curse;for to joy with men that joy, for to weep with men that weep.Feel ye the same thing together; not understanding, [or savouring, or cunning], high things, but consenting to meek things, [following meek fathers]. Do not ye be prudent with yourselves;to no man yielding evil for evil, but purvey ye good things, not only before God, but also before all men.If it may be done, that that is of you, have ye peace with all men.Ye most dear brethren, not defending, [or avenging], yourselves, but give ye place to wrath [or ire]; for it is written, The Lord saith, To me vengeance, and I shall yield.And do not ye be conformed to this world, but be ye reformed in newness of your wit, that ye prove which is the will of God, good, and well pleasing, and perfect.
The night went before, but the day hath nighed. Therefore cast we away the works of darknesses, and be we clothed in [or with] the armours of light.As in [the] day wander we honestly, not in superfluous feasts [or in oft eatings], and drunkennesses, not in beds and unchastities, not in strife and in envy;but be ye clothed in the Lord Jesus Christ, and do ye not the busyness [or the cares] of flesh in desires.
Whether ye know not, that your members be the temple of the Holy Ghost, that is in you, whom ye have of God, and ye be not your own?Whether ye know not, that saints shall deem this world? And if the world shall be deemed by you, be ye unworthy to deem the least things?For ye be bought with great price. Glorify ye, and bear ye God in your body.
Do not ye be deceived; for evil speeches, [or false doctrine], destroy good conduct [or corrupt good virtues].
and what consent to the temple of God with maumets? [or idols?] And ye be the temple of the living God, as the Lord saith, For I shall dwell in them, and I shall walk among them; and I shall be [the] God of them, and they shall be a people to me.For which thing go ye out of the middle of them, and be ye separated, saith the Lord, and touch not unclean thing; and I shall receive you,and I shall be to you into a Father, and ye shall be to me into sons and daughters, saith the Lord almighty.
For we walking in the flesh, fight not after the flesh.For the arms or armours of our knighthood be not fleshly, but mighty by God to the destruction of strengths [or of wardings].And we destroy counsels, and all highness that higheth [or raised] itself against the science of God, and drive into captivity all understanding into the service of Christ.
and I am fixed to the cross, that I live to God with Christ. And now live not I, but Christ liveth in me. But that I live now in flesh, I live in the faith of God’s Son, that loved me, and gave himself for me. [with Christ I am fixed to the cross. Forsooth I live now, not I, but Christ liveth in me. Forsooth that I live now in flesh, I live in the faith of God’s son, the which loved me, and betook himself for me.]
And I say to you in Christ, walk ye in Spirit, and ye shall not perform the desires of the flesh.
And the works of the flesh be open, which be fornication, unclean-ness, unchastity, lechery,Lo! I, Paul, say to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall nothing profit to you.service of false gods [or serving of idols], witchcrafts, enmities, strivings [or strives], indignations, wraths, chidings, dissensions, sects [or heresies],envies, manslayings, drunkennesses, unmeasurable eatings [or gluttonies], and things like to these, which I say to you before, as I have told to you before, for they that do such things, shall not have the kingdom of God.
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.
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 ye were sometime darknesses, but now ye be light in the Lord. Walk ye as the sons of light.
And do not ye be drunk of wine, in which is lechery [or is luxury], but be ye filled with the Holy Ghost;
Here afterward, brethren, be ye comforted in the Lord, and in the might of his virtue.Clothe you with the armour of God, that ye may stand against the ambushings, [or assailings], of the devil.
trusting this same thing, that he that began in you a good work, shall perform it till into the day of Jesus Christ.
Be ye nothing busy, but in all prayer and beseeching, with doing of thankings, be your askings known at God.And the peace of God, that passeth all wit, keep your hearts and understandings in Christ Jesus.
From henceforth, brethren, what-ever things be sooth, whatever things chaste, whatever things just, whatever things holy, whatever things able to be loved, [or amiable, or lovable], whatever things of good fame, if any virtue, if any praising of discipline, think ye these things,
Which delivered us from the power of darknesses, and translated [us] into the kingdom of the Son of his loving,in whom we have again-buying, and remission of sins.
Therefore slay ye your members, which be on the earth, fornication, uncleanness, lechery, evil covetousness, and avarice, which is service of maumets [or simulacra];
For this is the will of God, your holiness, that ye abstain you from fornication.That each of you know how to wield his vessel in holiness, and honour;
Therefore sleep we not as others; but wake we, and be we sober.For they that sleep, sleep in the night, and they that be drunken, be drunken in the night.But we that be of the day, be sober, clothed in the habergeon of faith and of charity, and in the helmet of hope of health.
Abstain [ye] you from all evil species, [or likeness].And God himself of peace make you holy by all things, that your spirit be kept whole, and soul, and body, without complaint, in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
For why God gave not to us the spirit of dread, but of virtue, and of love, and of soberness.
And flee thou [the] desires of youth, but follow thou rightwiseness, faith, charity, peace, with them that inwardly call [or that in-call] the Lord of a clean heart.
and taught us, that we forsake wickedness [or unpiety], and worldly desires, and live soberly, and justly, and piously in this world,
For in that thing in which he suffered, and was tempted, he is mighty to help also them that be tempted.
For we have not a bishop, that may not have compassion on our infirmities, but was tempted by all things by likeness, without sin.Therefore go we with trust to the throne of his grace, that we get mercy, and find grace in covenable help.
and hold we the confession of our hope, bowing to no side, [or unbowing, or unpliable]; for he is true that hath made the promise.
Therefore we that have so great a cloud of witnesses put to [us], do we away all charge, and sin standing about us, and by patience run we to the battle, [or the strife, or fight], purposed to us,And they in time of few days taught us by their will; but this Father teacheth to that thing that is profitable, in receiving the hallowing of him.And each chastising in [this] present time seemeth to be not of joy, but of sorrow; but afterward it shall yield fruit of rightwiseness most peaceable to men exercised by it.For which thing raise ye [up] slow hands, and knees unbound,and make ye rightful steps to your feet; that no man halting err, but more be healed.Pursue ye peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see God.Behold ye, that no man fail to the grace of God, that no root of bitterness burrowing upward hinder [us], and many be defouled by it;that no man be lecher, either unholy, as Esau, which for one [meal’s] meat sold his first things, [or heritage].For know ye, that afterward he coveting to inherit blessing, was reproved. For he found not place of penance, though he sought it with tears.But ye have not come to the fire able to be touched, and able to come to, and to the whirlwind [or the great wind], and mist, and tempest,and sound of trump, and voice of words; which they that heard, excused them, that the word should not be made to them.beholding into the maker of faith, and the perfect ender, Jesus; which when joy was purposed to him, he suffered the cross, and despised confusion, and sitteth on the right half of the seat of God.
And if any of you needeth wisdom, ask he of God, which giveth to all men largely, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given to him.
Blessed is the man, that suffereth temptation; for when he shall be proved, he shall receive the crown of life, which God promised to men that love him.
No man when he is tempted, say, that he is tempted of God; for why God is not a tempter of evil things, for he tempteth no man.But each man is tempted, drawn and stirred, of his own coveting. [Soothly each man is tempted of his own coveting, drawn from reason, and snared, or deceived.]Afterward [or Then] coveting, when it hath conceived, bringeth forth sin; but sin, when it is [ful] filled, engendereth death.
For which thing be ye gird the loins of your soul, sober, perfect, and hope ye into that grace that is proffered to you by the showing of Jesus Christ,as sons of obedience, not made like to the former desires of your unknowingness [or your ignorance],but like him that hath called you holy; that also yourselves be holy in all living;for it is written, Ye shall be holy, for I am holy.
Be ye sober, and wake ye, for your adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion goeth about, seeking whom he shall devour.Whom against-stand ye, strong in the faith, witting that the same passion is made to that brotherhood of you, that is in the world.
If we acknowledge our sins, he is faithful and just, that he forgive to us our sins, and cleanse us from all wickedness.