10 Bible Verses about Addictions

promising them freedom, while they themselves are bondmen of corruption, for by what any man has been overcome, of this he has also been enslaved.

Jesus answered them, Truly, truly, I say to you, that every man who does the sin is a bondman of the sin.

For many walk, who (I told you often, and now also say while weeping) are enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and the glory in their shame, who mind earthly things.

Aged women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderous, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is good,

For when ye were bondmen of sin, ye were uninhibited by righteousness. What fruit therefore did ye have then, of which things ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever errs thereby is not wise.

He who loves pleasure shall be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil shall not be rich.

But those who want to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, which sink men in destruction and ruin. For the love of money is a root of all the evils, of which some aspiring have wandered from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Go now, ye rich, weep, howling for your miseries that are approaching. Your wealth has decayed, and your garments have become moth-eaten. Your gold and your silver have cankered, and their corrosion will be testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. Ye have hoarded in the last days.

All things are lawful for me, but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under control by anything.