17 Bible Verses about Addiction

While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for by whom a man is overcome, by the same is he brought into bondage.

Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say to you, Whoever committeth sin, is the servant of sin.

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

He brought them out of darkness and the shades of death, and broke their bands asunder.

All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

Likewise must the deacons be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre,

Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre, but patient; not a brawler, not covetous;

But now I have written to you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother is a lewd person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner: with such person no not to eat.

For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;

Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

In which ye also walked formerly, when ye lived with them.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

I speak after the manner of men, because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity, to (work) iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness, to (work) holiness. For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.