8 Bible Verses about Addictions

While they promise them freedom, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for by whatever any man is overcome, he is also enslaved.

Jesus answered them: Verily, verily I say to you, whoever works sin is the servant of sin.

For many walk, of whom I often said to you, and now say even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of the Christ, whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.

that the aged women likewise be, in deportment, as it becomes holy women, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of good things,

For when you were the servants of sin, you were free with respect to righteousness. What fruit, therefore, had you at that time, in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

But those who will be rich fail into temptation and a snare, and many foolish and hurtful desires, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil; through the desire of which, some have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Come, now, you rich men, weep and lament for your miseries that are coming upon you. Your wealth is corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten: your gold and your silver are covered with rust; and their rust will be a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh as fire. You have heaped up treasures in the last days.

All meats are lawful for me: but all are not profitable. All are lawful for me; but I will not be brought under subjection by any.