Bible Verses About Drug Abuse
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for drug abuse, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,001 votes, led by 1 Corinthians 6:19-20. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Drug Abuse
1 Corinthians 6:19-20146 votes
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?
1 Peter 5:8108 votes
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Proverbs 20:193 votes
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
1 Corinthians 10:1390 votes
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.
Ephesians 5:1882 votes
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
Galatians 5:19-2168 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
1 Corinthians 3:1764 votes
If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
1 Corinthians 15:3364 votes
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
Isaiah 5:1163 votes
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
Galatians 5:2154 votes
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.
Hebrews 10:2648 votes
For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
1 Peter 4:742 votes
But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
Matthew 6:1340 votes
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.
1 Corinthians 5:1135 votes
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.
Matthew 5:13-1630 votes
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
Hosea 4:1128 votes
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
Proverbs 23:29-3526 votes
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
Galatians 5:1-2626 votes
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Romans 6:1625 votes
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?
1 Corinthians 6:1924 votes
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?
1 Corinthians 6:9-1123 votes
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,
1 Corinthians 6:1022 votes
Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
Psalms 23:1-621 votes
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
Proverbs 21:1720 votes
He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.
Philippians 4:1320 votes
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
What does the Bible say about drug abuse?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 on the subject of drug abuse. Across 2,001 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Peter 5:8, Proverbs 20:1, 1 Corinthians 10:13. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.