Addiction
experienceBondage to sinful desire — and the Spirit's power to break it.
Not just a list of verses — a map of how ideas in Scripture connect and lead to each other.
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Addiction connects to different paths in Scripture:
Addiction leads to Faith and Perseverance.
Reading Path
Follow this theme through Scripture — one verse per step, in theological order.
“While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.”2 Peter 2:19 →
“I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.”Luke 15:7 →
“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:”Ephesians 2:8 →
Relationships
Anchor Scriptures 19 verses
“His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.”
Read in context →“Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.”
Read in context →“To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.”
Read in context →“Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?”
Read in context →“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.”
Read in context →“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?”
Read in context →“Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.”
Read in context →“While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.”
Read in context →“Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.”
Read in context →“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,”
Read in context →“Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;”
Read in context →“Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;”
Read in context →“And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.”
Read in context →“This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.”
Read in context →“For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.”
Read in context →“Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.”
Read in context →“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
Read in context →“For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.”
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