17 Bible Verses about Addiction

promising them liberty, they themselves are the slaves of corruption. For by whom anyone has been overcome, even to this one he has been enslaved.

Jesus answered them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Whoever practices sin is the slave of sin.

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

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bands in two.

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

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

Likewise the deacons are to be reverent, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of ill gain,

not a drunkard, not contentious, not greedy of ill gain, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous,

But now I have written to you not to associate intimately, if any man called a brother and is either a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one not to eat.

For an overseer must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed, not full of passion, not given to wine, not quarrelsome, not greedy for ill gain;

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

among whom you also once walked, when you lived in these.

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

I speak in the manner of men because of the weakness of your flesh; for as you have yielded your members as slaves to uncleanness, and to lawless act unto lawless act, even so now yield your members as slaves to righteousness unto holiness. For when you were the slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness.

(For many are walking, of whom I have told you often and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ; whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, those who mind earthly things.)

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