Doing Drugs

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

Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own;

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

And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit;

There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.

Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; And whosoever erreth thereby is not wise.

envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own; — read the full passage →

Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy. — read the full passage →

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 any.

But be thou sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil thy ministry.

All things are lawful; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful; but not all things edify.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual 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 tarry late into the night, till wine inflame them!

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

for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.

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

Know ye not that ye are a 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 of sound mind, and be sober unto prayer:

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

Wherefore girding up the loins of your mind, be sober and set your hope perfectly on the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

Put them in mind to be in subjection to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready unto every good work,

idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, parties,

Or 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 men, — read the full passage →

Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy.

but as it is, I wrote unto you not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no, not to eat.

and they repented not of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

so then let us not sleep, as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober. — read the full passage →

and the light of a lamp 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 princes of the earth; for with thy sorcery were all the nations deceived.

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

Drink no wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tent of meeting, that ye die not: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:

But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.

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

they gave him wine to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted it, he would not drink.

And even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they stagger with 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;

that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

If any man destroyeth the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, and such are ye.

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

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

I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

Be not deceived: Evil companionships corrupt good morals.

seeing that his divine power hath granted unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that called us by his own glory and virtue;

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

But take heed to yourselves, lest haply your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come on you suddenly as a snare:

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

instructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and 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: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

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

Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the understanding.

Without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.

For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries:

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

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

Deacons in like manner must be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.

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

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

Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them;

Or 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 men, — read the full passage →

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers: for there is no power but of God; and 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 it is your will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and standeth 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 thereof.

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

Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, to thee that addest thy venom, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!

And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

The thief cometh not, but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy: I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

Know ye not that they that run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? Even so run; that ye may attain. — read the full passage →

And if thy hand or thy foot causeth thee to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from thee: it is good for thee to enter into life maimed or halt, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire. — read the full passage →

A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself; But the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

Forasmuch then as Christ suffered in the flesh, arm ye yourselves also with the same mind; for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; — read the full passage →

For the bishop must be blameless, as God’s steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, no brawler, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre;

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

And the God of all grace, who called you unto his eternal glory in Christ, after that ye have suffered a little while, shall himself perfect, establish, strengthen you.

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

And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

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

Be subject to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme;

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers: for there is no power but of God; and the powers that be are ordained of God. — read the full passage →

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

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

Be not among winebibbers, Among gluttonous eaters of flesh:

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

so then let us not sleep, as do the rest, 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 aged men be temperate, grave, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience: — read the full passage →

For God gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline.

abstain from every form of evil.

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth.

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

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary the one to the other; that ye may not do the things that ye would.

For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.

I would that they that unsettle you would even go beyond circumcision.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love.

Yea, I testify again to every man that receiveth circumcision, 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 the weak.