17 Bible Verses about Addiction

Promising them liberty, they being servants of corruption: for by whom any is conquered, by him has he been made to serve.

Jesus answered them, Truly, truly, say I to you, That every one doing sin, is servant of sin.

No temptation except human has taken you and God faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able; but with the temptation will he also make an escape, that ye may be able to bear.

He will bring them forth from darkness and the shadow of death, and he will burst their bands.

All the labor of man for his mouth, and also the soul shall not be filled.

And besides, from these, my son, beware: of making many books, no end; and much study wearies the flesh.

Deacons likewise grave, not speaking equivocally, not holding to much wine, not occupied in sordid gain;

Not intoxicated, not a quarrelsome person, not occupied in sordid gain; but equitable, without fighting, exempt from avarice;

And now I wrote to you not to mix together, if any called a brother is a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or intoxicated, or rapacious; not to eat with such.

For a bishop must be irreproachable, as steward of God; not self-sufficient, not prone to anger, not intemperate, not a striker, not occupied in sordid gain.

Nor thieves; nor covetous, nor intoxicated, nor railers, nor rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

In which also ye then walked, when ye lived in them.

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

(I speak as man through the weakness of your flesh:) for as ye presented your members to uncleanness and iniquity; so now present ye your members servants to justice for consecration. For when ye were servants to sin, ye were free to justice.

(For many walk, of whom I said to you often, and now also say weeping, the enemies of the cross of Christ: Whose end destruction, whose God the belly, and their glory in shame, having in mind earthly things.)

If the Son make you free, ye shall be truly free.