Bible verses about "marijuana" | MNT

¹ Now the Spirit distinctly declares that in latter days there will be some who will fall away from the faith, by listening to spirits of error, and to teachings of demons ² speaking lies in hypocrisy. These are men whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron, ³ who discourage marriage, and enjoin abstinence from foods which God created to be received with thankfulness, by those who believe, and have a clear knowledge of the truth. ⁴ For everything that God has created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if only it is received with thankfulness. ⁵ For it is sanctified by the Word of God and by prayer. ⁶ As you lay all these things before the brothers, you will be a noble minister of Christ Jesus, nourishing yourself in the precepts of the faith and that noble teaching which you have followed.

¹¹ "Listen, and pay attention. It is not what goes into a man's mouth that defiles him, but what comes out of it, that defiles the man."

³⁴ "But take heed to yourselves lest your hearts be surcharged with self-indulgence and drunkenness and worldly cares, and that day catches you suddenly like a trap. ³⁵ "For it will come upon all the dwellers on the face of the earth. ³⁶ "So be on your guard at all times, praying that you may be worthy to escape these things that shall come to pass, and to take your stand in the presence of the Son of man."

⁹ Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. None who are immoral, or idolaters, or adulterers, or catamites, or sodomites, ¹⁰ or thieves, or avaricious men, or drunkards, or foul-mouthed men, or extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ Such were some of you, but you have washed away your stains, you have been consecrated, you have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.

¹ Welcome a man of weak faith, but not for the purpose of deciding doubtful points. ² One man has faith to eat anything; but he whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. ³ He who eats meat must not despise the man who abstains; and let not the man who abstains judge him who eats; for God has received him. ⁴ Who are you just that judges the household-servant of another? To his own lord he stands or falls. And stand he will, for his Master has power to make him stand. ⁵ There are some who esteem one day above another; there are others who esteem all days alike; let each other be fully persuaded in his own mind. ⁶ He who regards the day, regards it unto his Lord; and he who regards it not, disregards it unto his Lord. He who eats meat, eats unto his Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he who abstains, abstains unto his Lord, since he, too, gives God thanks. ⁷ For not one of us lives unto himself, and not one dies unto himself. ⁸ If we live, we live unto our Lord; if we die, we die unto our Lord. So then, whether we live or die, we belong to our Lord. ⁹ For this purpose Christ died and became alive again, that he might be the Lord both of the dead and of the living. ¹⁰ But you the abstainer, why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you again the non-abstainer, why do you despise yours? For we shall all stand before the judgment-seat of God. ¹¹ For it is written, "As I live," says the Lord, "to me every knee shall bow, And to God shall every tongue confess." ¹² So then each one of us shall give account of himself to God. ¹³ So let us no longer pass judgment on one another; rather let this be your judgment, that no one put a stumbling-block in his brother's way, nor any cause of falling. ¹⁴ I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is in itself unclean; but any food is "unclean" for one who considers it "unclean." ¹⁵ If your brother is continually pained because of your food, you are not conducting yourself any longer in love. Do not, by what you eat, persist in destroying a man for whom Christ died. ¹⁶ Therefore do not let what is right, so far as you are concerned, be evil spoken of. ¹⁷ For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. ¹⁸ Those who are slaving for Christ devotedly in these ways, are well pleasing to God and highly commended by man. ¹⁹ So then let is eagerly pursue the things that make for peace and the upbuilding of each other. ²⁰ Do not, for the sake of food, be tearing down God's work. All food indeed is ceremonially clean, but a man is in the wrong if his food proves a stumbling-block. ²¹ The right course is not to eat meat, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything through which your brother is made to stumble. ²² Have you faith? Keep it to yourself as in the presence of God. He is a happy man who does not condemn himself in that which he approves. ²³ But he who has misgivings, and yet eats meat, is condemned already, because his action is not based on faith; and whatever is not based on faith is sin.

⁴ But you, brothers, are not in darkness, that "the Day" should come upon you like a bandit. ⁵ For you are all sons of light, and sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness. ⁶ So then let us not be sleeping as do the rest, but let us be watchful and self-controlled. ⁷ For those who are sleeping, sleep in the night, and those who are drunken, are drunken in the night. ⁸ But let us who are of the day be self-controlled, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

⁷ Cast all your care upon him, for he ever cares for you.

⁵ But as for you, be always self-controlled, face hardships, do the work of a missionary, discharge all the duties of your ministry.

¹³ So then brace up your minds, be steady in spirit, and fix your hope firmly in the grace that is coming to you, at the revelation of Jesus Christ. ¹⁴ Like obedient children, do not fashion yourselves according to the former passions of your days of ignorance, ¹⁵ but become yourselves holy in your whole manner of living, as He who has called you is holy, ¹⁶ as the Scripture says, You shall be holy, because I am holy.

⁵ I left you in Crete for this reason, that you might set right the things left unfinished, and appoint presbyters in every city as I had instructed you; ⁶ men who are blameless, the husband of one wife, with believing children who are not accused of riot or insubordination. ⁷ For indeed a presiding officer, as God's steward, ought to be blameless, not self-willed or quick-tempered, not a drunkard or violent, or greedy of filthy lucre; ⁸ but he must be hospitable, a lover of the good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled. ⁹ He must hold to the faithful word according to the teaching, so that he may be able both to encourage by sound teaching, and to confute our opponents.

⁴ Every one who commits sin commits also lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness. ⁵ And you know that he was manifested to take away sins; and in him is no sin. ⁶ Whoever continually abides in him does not habitually sin; whoever lives in sin has not seen him, nor come to know him. ⁷ My children, let no one deceive you; he who is working righteousness is righteous, just as he is righteous. ⁸ He who is committing sin is of the devil, because from the beginning of the devil is sinning. It was for this cause that the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. ⁹ Whoever is a child of God cannot go on sinning, because his seed is abiding in him; and he cannot go on sinning because he is a child of God. ¹⁰ In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil; for every one who does not work righteousness is not a child of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.

¹³ Let us live honestly, as in the day, Not in reveling and drunkenness, Not in lust and licentiousness, Not is strife and jealousy; ¹⁴ But clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, And make no provisions for your earthly nature And the gratification of its lusts.

¹⁹ Do you not know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is within you, the Spirit whom you have from God? ²⁰ You are not your own; for you have been bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your bodies.

¹⁸ Do not be drunk with wine, in which is riotous living, but drink deep in the Spirit, ¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are manifest; such, for instance, as fornication, impurity, indecency, ²⁰ idol-worship, sorcery, quarrels, party-spirit, jealousy, passionate anger, intrigues, factions, sectarianism, ²¹ envy, drunkenness, revellings, and things like these. I tell you beforehand, as I have already told you, that those who practise such sins shall not inherit the kingdom of God. ²² But the harvest-fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity, gentleness, and self-control; ²³ against such there is no law. ²⁴ And those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and appetites. ²⁵ If we are living by the Spirit, let us also keep step in the Spirit.

¹ Since, then, Christ suffered in the flesh, do you also ever arm yourselves with the same mind (because he who has suffered in the flesh has done with sin), ² so that in future you may not spend your life in the flesh according to men's desires, but in the will of God. ³ For the time past of life may suffice us to have worked the will of the Gentiles, when we spent our life in lasciviousness, lusts, hard drinking, revelry, banqueting, and abominable idol worship. ⁴ They are astonished at this, that you do not run into the same excesses of profligacy as they do; and they speak evil of you. ⁵ But they must render account to Him who stands ready to judge the living and the dead. ⁶ The gospel was preached for this cause to those who were dead also, that they might be judged according to men in flesh, but live according to God in spirit.

¹ But do you, on your part, speak what becomes sound teaching; ² that the older men be self-controlled, serious and sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience; ³ that older women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers or slaves to much wine, but teachers of what is right. ⁴ They should train the younger women to love their husbands and children, ⁵ to be sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind and submissive to their husbands, in order that God's message be not maligned. ⁶ The younger men exhort to be sober-minded; in every respect showing yourself an example of good works. ⁷ In your teaching be serious and sincere. ⁸ Let the instruction that you give be sound and above reproach, so that our opponents may be ashamed because they find no evil things to say about us.

⁸ Be temperate, be vigilant; because your enemy, the devil, is prowling about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.