Bible Verses about βdrug useβ
The Bible contains 25 verses about drug use across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
βAnd be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.β
βWhat? 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?β
βFor ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.β
βEnvyings, 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.β
βΒΆ 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.β
βThere 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].β
βNow the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,β
βIdolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,β
βΒΆ Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:β
βΒΆ Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?β
βBe not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.β
βLet us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.β
βBut put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to [fulfil] the lusts [thereof].β
βΒΆ Wine [is] a mocker, strong drink [is] raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.β
βAt the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.β
βThine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.β
βΒΆ Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?β
βThey that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.β
βLook not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, [when] it moveth itself aright.β
βYea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.β
βThey have stricken me, [shalt thou say, and] I was not sick; they have beaten me, [and] I felt [it] not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.β
βWherefore do ye spend money for [that which is] not bread? and your labour for [that which] satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye [that which is] good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.β
βΒΆ Therefore let us not sleep, as [do] others; but let us watch and be sober.β
βBut let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.β
βFor they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.β
