Bible Verses about Addiction

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• “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are beneficial. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything.
  1 Corinthians 6:12desiresliferighteousness
• No testing has overtaken you that is not common to everyone. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tested beyond your strength, but with the testing he will also provide the way out so that you may be able to endure it.
  1 Corinthians 10:13reliabilitytemptationdesires
• Stay awake and pray that you may not come into the time of trial; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
  Matthew 26:41prayertemptationdesires
• For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
  Galatians 5:1Jesusliferedeemer
• For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin.
  Romans 6:5-6sinresurrectionslavery
• Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
  James 4:7obediencesafetydevil
• For all that is in the world—the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, the pride in riches—comes not from the Father but from the world.
  1 John 2:16desiresprideworld
• For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all, training us to renounce impiety and worldly passions, and in the present age to live lives that are self-controlled, upright, and godly.
  Titus 2:11-12gracerighteousnesssalvation
• Jesus answered them, “Very truly, I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.”
  John 8:34sinslavery
• Because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
  James 1:3faithtemptation
• Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body.
  1 Corinthians 6:19-20worshipSpiritlife
• And do not bring us to the time of trial,
  but rescue us from the evil one.
  Matthew 6:13temptationdesiresevil
• So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.
  John 8:36Jesusredeemerfreedom
• You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything, but is thrown out and trampled under foot.
  Matthew 5:13sinobedienceevangelism
• Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
  John 8:31-32truthWord of Godfollowing
• Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.
  Romans 13:14desiresJesusbody