Bible Verses About Substance Abuse

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

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

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.