Bible Verses About Addiction

"If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed."

If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed — the source of genuine freedom.

"For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace."

Sin shall not be your master — a statement of what is now true.

"“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything."

Everything is permissible but not everything is beneficial — I will not be mastered.

"For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do."

What I want to do I do not do — the honest cry of internal conflict.

"What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?"

Who will rescue me from this body of death? — the right question.

"Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage."

It is for freedom that Christ has set us free — do not be burdened again.

"Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new."

A new creation — the old has gone, the new has come.

"I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me."

I can do all things through him who strengthens me — including this.

"Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective."

Confess your sins to each other — community as part of freedom.

"No 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."

No temptation beyond what you can bear — and a way out.

"Don’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."

Transformed by the renewing of your mind — slow and deep work.

"He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand."

Lifted out of the pit — rescue from below.

"The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;"

To proclaim freedom for the captives — the announcement of Jesus' mission.

"But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh."

Walk by the Spirit — a daily alternative to the flesh.

"Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us,"

Throw off everything that hinders — the race imagery of release.