Bible Verses about βdrugsβ
The Bible contains 27 verses about drugs across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
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
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
βAnd be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;β
βΒΆ Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?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
β[To be] discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.β
βBut put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to [fulfil] the lusts [thereof].β
βIf any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which [temple] ye are.β
βThat they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,β
βΒΆ Wine [is] a mocker, strong drink [is] raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.β
βThe aged women likewise, that [they be] in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;β
βIn all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine [shewing] uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,β
βThat the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.β
βSound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.β
βΒΆ But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:β
βYoung men likewise exhort to be sober minded.β
βFor the time past of [our] life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:β
βΒΆ But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.β
βThat he no longer should live the rest of [his] time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.β
βΒΆ Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;β
βFor for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.β
βΒΆ Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with [them] to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of [you]:β
βWho shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.β
