17 Bible Verses about Addiction
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promising them freedom, while they themselves are bondmen of corruption, for by what any man has been overcome, of this he has also been enslaved.
Jesus answered them, Truly, truly, I say to you, that every man who does the sin is a bondman of the sin.
No temptation has taken you except is common to man. But God is faithful who will not allow you to be tempted above what ye are able, but with the temptation will also make the way to escape, to enable you to endure.
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bonds apart.
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
And furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Helpers likewise, be honorable, not double-tongued, not attending to much wine, not greedy of base gain,
no drunkard, not a fighter, not greedy of base gain, but meek, noncontentious, no lover of money,
But now I write to you not to associate if any man who is called a brother is a fornicator, or a greedy man, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or a predator, not even to eat with such kind.
For the overseer must be blameless as a steward of God, not self-willed, not prone to angry, not a drunkard, not a fighter, not greedy of base gain,
nor greedy men, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor the slanderous, nor the predatory will inherit the kingdom of God.
And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, because from thee is the kingdom and the power and the glory into the ages. Truly.
(I speak man-like because of the weakness of your flesh). For as ye presented your body-parts servile to uncleanness, and to lawlessness for lawlessness, so now present your body-parts servile to righteousness for sanctification. For when ye were bondmen of sin, ye were uninhibited by righteousness.
For many walk, who (I told you often, and now also say while weeping) are enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and the glory in their shame, who mind earthly things.
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2 Peter 2:19promising them freedom, while they themselves are bondmen of corruption, for by what any man has been overcome, of this he has also been enslaved.
