13 Bible Verses about Addiction

Jesus replied, "Truly, truly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave.

No temptation has waylaid you that is beyond man's power; trust God, he will never let you be tempted beyond what you can stand, but when temptation comes, he will provide the way out of it, so that you can bear up under it.

Deacons in turn are to be serious men; they are not to be tale-bearers or addicted to drink or pilfering;

not a drunkard or violent, but lenient and conciliatory, not a lover of money,

What I now write is that you are not to associate with any so-called brother who is immoral or lustful or idolatrous or given to abuse or drink or robbery. Associate with him! Do not even eat with him!

[For a bishop must be above reproach ??he is a steward of God's house ??he must not be presumptuous or hot-tempered or a drunkard or violent or addicted to pilfering;

nor thieves nor the lustful nor the drunken nor the abusive nor robbers will inherit the Realm of God.

Once you moved among them, when you lived in them;

and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.'

(I use this human analogy to bring the truth home to your weak nature.) As you once dedicated your members to the service of vice and lawlessness, so now dedicate them to the service of righteousness that means consecration. When you served sin, you were free of righteousness.

For many ??as I have often told you and tell you now with tears ??many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. Destruction is their fate, the belly is their god, they glory in their shame, these men of earthly mind!

So, if the Son sets you free, you will be really free.