17 Bible Verses about Addiction

promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bonds in sunder.

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

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

Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money;

not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. Don't even eat with such a person.

For the overseer must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortioners, will inherit the Kingdom of God.

You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;

Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.'

I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification. For when you were servants of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.