8 Bible Verses about Addictions

promising them liberty, they themselves being the slaves of corruption: for to whatsoever any one has been subordinated, to this he has become enslaved.

Jesus responded to them, Truly, truly, I say unto you, That every one doing sin is the slave of sin.

For many walk about, of whom I frequently spoke to you, and now I speak even weeping, the enemies of the cross of Christ: whose end is destruction, whose God is their stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.

likewise that the elderly women be reverent in demeanor, not tattlers, not given to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

For when you were the servants of sin, you were free from righteousness. What fruit then had you at that time in those things in which you are now ashamed? for the end of these things is death.

But those wishing to be rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown the people in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is a root of all evils: which some seeking after have wandered from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Come now, ye rich, weep mourning over your calamities which are coming on you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments have become moth-eaten: your gold and your silver are cankered; and their rust shall be for a witness against you, and eat your flesh like fire. You laid up treasures in the last days.

All things are lawful to me, but all things are not profitable: all things are lawful, but I will not be brought under the power of any.