14 Bible Verses about Addiction

While they promise them freedom, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for by whatever any man is overcome, he is also enslaved.

Jesus answered them: Verily, verily I say to you, whoever works sin is the servant of sin.

No trial has come upon you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tried more than you are able to bear; but he will, with the trial, make a way to escape, so that you be able to bear up under it.

The deacons, likewise, must be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not makers of money by base means,

not fond of wine, not quarrelsome, not one who makes money by base means; but gentle, not contentious, not covetous;

but now I write to you, not to associate with any one professing to be a brother, if he is lewd or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner: with such a one not even to eat.

For the bishop must be blame less, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not passionate, not fond of wine, not quarrelsome, not one who makes money by base means;

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

in which things you also formerly walked when you lived in them.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the Evil One.

I speak of what is common among men, oil account of the weakness of your flesh: for as you have presented your members as servants to uncleanness, and to lawlessness, in order to lawlessness, so now present your members as servants to righteousness, in order to holiness. For when you were the servants of sin, you were free with respect to righteousness.

For many walk, of whom I often said to you, and now say even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of the Christ, whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.

Therefore, if the Son make you free, you shall be free indeed.