8 Bible Verses about Abuse, Of Spiritual Things

What are my wages then? The very fact that the Good News which I preach will cost my hearers nothing, so that I cannot be charged with abuse of my privileges as a Christian preacher.

and those who use the world as not using it to the full. For the world as it now exists is passing away.

and especially those who are abandoned to sensuality--craving, as they do, for polluted things, and scorning control. Fool-hardy and self-willed, they do not tremble when speaking evil of glorious beings;

But while giving you these instructions, there is one thing I cannot praise--your meeting together, with bad rather than good results.

For certain persons have crept in unnoticed--men spoken of in ancient writings as pre-destined to this condemnation--ungodly men, who pervert the grace of our God into an excuse for immorality, and disown Jesus Christ, our only Sovereign and Lord.

And why should we not say--for so they wickedly misrepresent us, and so some charge us with arguing--"Let us do evil that good may come"? The condemnation of those who would so argue is just.

To what conclusion, then, shall we come? Are we to persist in sinning in order that the grace extended to us may be the greater?

Are we therefore to sin because we are no longer under the authority of Law, but under grace? No, indeed!