Doing Drugs

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

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?

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

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

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.

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.

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? — read the full passage →

Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. — read the full passage →

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.

But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.

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.

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

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

Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.

For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? — read the full passage →

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

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

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;

Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,

Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

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, — read the full passage →

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

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.

Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

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. — read the full passage →

And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.

Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.

Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:

But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink.

But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:

The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →

Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? — read the full passage →

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: — read the full passage →

And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

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

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

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

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

For 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:

As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

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

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: — read the full passage →

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

For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove 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, — read the full passage →

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. — read the full passage →

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;

Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!

And 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.

The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. — read the full passage →

Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire. — read the full passage →

A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.

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; — read the full passage →

For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;

But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight 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.

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

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.

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. — read the full passage →

And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.

Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. — read the full passage →

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

Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. — read the full passage →

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

Abstain from all appearance of evil.

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

I would they were even cut off which trouble you.

For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.

For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.