Bible Verses about โdrug useโ
The Bible contains 25 verses about drug use across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โDon't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.โ
โOr don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,โ
โfor you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.โ
โenvyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.โ
โTherefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.โ
โNo temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.โ
โNow the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,โ
โidolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,โ
โBe sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.โ
โDon't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?โ
โDon't be deceived! "Evil companionships corrupt good morals."โ
โLet us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.โ
โBut put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.โ
โWine is a mocker, and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.โ
โIn the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.โ
โYour eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing things.โ
โWho has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?โ
โThose who stay long at the wine; those who go to seek out mixed wine.โ
โDon't look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.โ
โYes, you will be as he who lies down in the midst of the sea, or as he who lies on top of the rigging:โ
โ"They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don't feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I can find another."โ
โWhy do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which doesn't satisfy? listen diligently to me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.โ
โso then let's not sleep, as the rest do, but let's watch and be sober.โ
โBut let us, since we belong to the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and, for a helmet, the hope of salvation.โ
โFor those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.โ
