Note: If you are quitting drugs, verses drugs and verses drinking are almost the exact same ones.
Many have read Versesdrinking to combat drinking. Some have studied verses about drinking to fight drinking. But only a few fight drinking exactly the way Jesus did. When Jesus was tempted, He fought every temptation with a Bible verse. But… Jesus did not have any sin strongholds in his life, so satan bounced from one temptation to the next. But that is not how he attacks us. Drinking, more drinking, then some more drinking, maybe with a side dish of covetousness.
When we are trying to break down a stronghold, one verse helps, two are better, but three are even better. Here are three that I really like:
Matthew 6:22-23
“The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
Romans 6:16 ESV
Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?
2 Timothy 2:22 ESV
So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
Second, three are probably not enough, but Jesus had the verses memorized. Start by memorizing one and get to three as fast as possible. Then continue to add more.
If you really know all of the verses about drinking by heart, you won’t think drinking is stupid and destructive… you will know it.
Matthew 6:22 completely opened my eyes. I always ended up trading in my great life filled with light and joy for short-term fun which led to darkness, and depression. The more I quoted this verse, the more I knew what was really happening. The last few times I went back to ________, I literally said: I am ruining my week and month. I am going back to darkness. I will have destruction.
I was correct. That was what happened.
What are the two or three verses you have used to fight back against drinking? Please help me out by picking the ones from this list. I am trying to figure out which great verses about quitting are not on this list. If you have a verse specifically about drinking that is not on the list please let me know so I can add it.
Lastly, it is hard for us to exactly copy how Jesus lived. But, we certainly can copy His method for fighting temptation.
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