14 Bible Verses about Addiction

promising them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what a man is overcome, by the same is he also brought into bondage.

Jesus answered them, Truly, truly do I say to you, Every one that committeth sin is a bondservant of sin.

No temptation hath come upon you, but such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted beyond what ye are able to endure, but will with the temptation furnish also the way to escape, that ye may be able to endure it.

Deacons in like manner must be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of base gain,

not given to wine, not a striker, but forbearing, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money;

But this is what I wrote you, not to keep company with any one called a brother, if he be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one not even to eat.

For a bishop must be without reproach, as Gods steward; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, not a striker, not greedy of base gain,

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

In which things ye also once walked, when ye lived in them;

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

I speak in a way common among men on account of the weakness of your flesh. For as ye once yielded your members as slaves to impurity and to iniquity, in order to commit iniquity, so now yield your members as bondmen to righteousness in order to become holy. For when ye were the slaves of sin, ye were not the bondmen of righteousness.

For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ; whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, whose mind is on earthly things.

If therefore the Son make you free, ye will be free indeed.