Where in the Bible Does It Talk About Addictions?
Question by kellythetrainer: Where in the Bible does it talk about addictions?
I don’t want specific addictions ,(drugs, sex, alcohol, smoking, food, etc..)
i just want general verses on what God says about addictions. And how to overcome them. I work in an industry where i see a lot of people struggling with a specific addiction and wanted to give biblical verses to help them.
Thanks!
also, let me note that im not talking about specific, intentional “sinning”. I think “addictions” can be ( not neccesarily always) somewhat of a compulsion that cant be stopped. As in with brain chemicals and such. What do you think?
example: addicted to sugar… not neccesarily a sin, but an addiction. (just a silly example)
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Answer by e.citizen
“Repent, for the kindom of God is at hand.”
Answer by MrgLvWsdm
John 8:34 Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin.
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“Repent, for the kindom of God is at hand.”…
I’m sorry, but how is this talking about an addiction?
Why not think of your own words, or look for something “more modern”, instead of something that was written thousands of years ago? What if this person isn’t religious? You might offend someone. Go with something a little more neutral.
Well it doesn’t really specify. but the things that God doesn’t approve of. He calls them abominations. and you can find that throughout the books of Exodus and Leviticus. God doesn’t want us doin many things. But your answer should be found within those 2 books
2Pe 1:6 And to knowledge TEMPERANCE; and to TEMPERANCE; patience; and to patience righteousness;
Gal 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, righteousness, faith,
Gal 5:23 Meekness, TEMPERANCE;: against such there is no law.
tem·per·ance (tmpr-ns, tmprns)
n.
Moderation and self-restraint, as in behavior or expression.
Restraint in the use of or abstinence from alcoholic liquors.
temperance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: self-restraint
Synonyms: abnegation, abstemiousness, abstinence, asceticism, astringency, austerity, conservatism, constraint, continence, control, discretion, eschewal, forbearance, forgoing, frugality, golden mean*, happy medium*, measure, moderateness, moderation, moderatism, mortification, prohibition, prudence, reasonableness, refrainment, restraint, sacrifice, self-control, self-denial, self-deprivation, self-discipline, soberness, sobriety, stoicism, teetotalism
Antonyms: excess, intemperance, wildness
Peace.
Pretty sure that it doesn’t. It does state that having to much wine is “sinful” but other than that…nada.
top start, I Corintians 6:12 can help you with some addictions that may be legal or accepted by some societies, for example smoking:
All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
This reminds me of how pitiful I was when I was a drunken party goer and the fruitlessness of that lifestyle.
Romans 6:20-23 – For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Y’shua our Lord.
Amen to that.
2 Peter 2:12-22
12But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish.
13They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
14With eyes full of adultery, they never stop sinning; they seduce the unstable; they are experts in greed—an accursed brood!
15They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.
16But he was rebuked for his wrongdoing by a donkey—a beast without speech—who spoke with a man’s voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.
17These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them. 1
8For they mouth empty, boastful words and, by appealing to the lustful desires of sinful human nature, they entice people who are just escaping from those who live in error.
19They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity—
for a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.
20If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning.
21It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them.
22Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,”and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”
1 Corinthians 10:13 “No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it. ”
Paul says in 1 Corinthians 6 : 12 to “be mastered by nothing”
or in other words, not to let anything have power over you but Christ.
Luke 16 : 13 says, “No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You can not serve both God and Money.” ( or I think the word ‘money’ could be replaced by whatever is an ‘idol’ in your life).
Romans 7:15, 23-24 Paul said, “I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. … I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind, making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?”
James 4:7 says “Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. ”
Proverbs 23 says “For as a man thinks in his heart, so he is. ”
Hebrews 12:1 says “Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us .”
Hebrews 4:14-16 says, “Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.”
“Discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness” (1 Timothy 4:7). Discipline puts into daily practice our commitment to live a godly life. It begins in the mind. “Be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect” (Romans 12:2).
The story of Esau is a lesson in not trading something precious for a temporary reward. Here is an excerpt:
“What have you traded for your craving for _____ (fill in the blank with lust, cocaine, whiskey, etc) to be temporarily gratified?
Remember Esau, and how, in his famished state, he traded his inheritance for a bowl of his brother Jacob’s lentils? His desire subjugated his will. Hunger is not the only drive powerful enough to render people weak-willed to resist. Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in ‘The Cost of Discipleship’ that
the gains of addiction are trivial compared with the loss it brings—you forfeit your body eternally for the momentary pleasure of eye or hand.
“How equitable is the trade we make to satiate the lusts of our flesh with fleeting fulfillment. Just as Esau trade exchanged his very birthright for a single meal, “to please our flesh, we trade honor for violation, freedom for bondage, esteem for shame, reputation for disrepute.
“No one in his right mind would make such a trade. But we’re not in our right mind. We’re set not on the Spirit but on the flesh in a world saying, “Gratify your desires.” In this corrupt culture, we are spiritually seduced by the lord of flesh and taken captive to the Tempter’s pit.”
We cannot overcome this imprisoning stronghold alone; alone, we are inadequate to stand against addiction. So why do we consider it an embarrassment to ask for help in conquering this sin? Jesus came to preach “good news” and the fact is that Jesus, who overcame temptation, delivers people from the captivity of addiction and its accompanying shame.”