Bible verses about "marijuana" | CLV

¹⁷ Happy are you, O country, whose king is a son of notables, And whose chiefs eat in season For mastery and not for a drinking bout."

¹ Now the spirit is saying explicitly, that in subsequent eras some will be withdrawing from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and the teachings of demons, ² in the hypocrisy of false expressions, their own conscience having been cauterized;" ³ forbidding to marry, abstaining from foods, which God creates to be partaken of with thanksgiving by those who believe and realize the truth, ⁴ seeing that every creature of God is ideal and nothing is to be cast away, being taken with thanksgiving, ⁵ for it is hallowed through the word of God and pleading. ⁶ By suggesting these things to the brethren, you should be an ideal servant of Christ Jesus, fostering with the words of faith and of the ideal teaching which you have fully followed."

¹² And forth is the land bringing verdure; herbage seeding seed for its from-kind, and for its likeness, and the fruit tree whose seed is in it, yielding fruit for its from-kind, on the land. And seeing is the Elohim that it is good.

¹³ The slothful man says, There is a black lion in the road, A lion in the square!" ¹⁴ The door turns about on its hinges, And the slothful one on his couch." ¹⁵ The slothful man buries his hand into the dinner-bowl; He is too tired to bring it back to his mouth. ¹⁶ The slothful man is wiser in his own eyes Than seven men who reply with discretion.

²⁵ The yearning of the slothful man puts him to death, For his hands refuse to work;" ²⁶ All the day he yearns with yearning, Yet the righteous one gives and does not keep back."

¹¹ Not that which is entering into the mouth is contaminating a man, but that which is going out of the mouth, this is contaminating a man."

³⁴ Now take heed to yourselves, lest at some time your hearts should be burdened with crapulence and drunkenness and the worries of life's affairs, and that day may be standing by you unawares, ³⁵ as a trap, for it will intrude on all those sitting on the surface of the entire earth." ³⁶ Now be vigilant, on every occasion beseeching that you may be prevailing to escape all these things which are about to occur, and to stand in front of the Son of Mankind."

⁹ Or are you not aware that the unjust shall not be enjoying the allotment of God's kingdom? Be not deceived. Neither paramours, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor sodomites, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards; no revilers, no extortioners shall be enjoying the allotment of God's kingdom." ¹¹ And some of you were these, but you are bathed off, but you are hallowed, but you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the spirit of our God."

⁴ Now you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day may be overtaking you as a thief, ⁵ for you are all sons of the light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of the darkness. ⁶ Consequently, then, we may not be drowsing, even as the rest, but we may be watching and be sober." ⁷ For those who are drowsing are drowsing at night, and those who are drunk are drunk at night." ⁸ Yet we, being of the day, may be sober, putting on the cuirass of faith and love, and the helmet, the expectation of salvation,

¹ Now the infirm in the faith be taking to yourselves, but not for discrimination of reasonings." ² One, indeed, is believing to eat all things, yet the infirm one is eating greens." ³ Let not him who is eating be scorning him who is not eating. Yet let not him who is not eating be judging him who is eating, for God took him to Himself." ⁴ Who are you who are judging Another's domestic? To his own Master he is standing or falling. Now he will be made to stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand." ⁵ One indeed, is deciding for one day rather than another day, yet one is deciding for every day. Let each one be fully assured in his own mind." ⁶ He who is disposed to the day, is disposed to it to the Lord; and he who is eating, is eating to the Lord, for he is thanking God. And he who is not eating, to the Lord is not eating, and is thanking God." ⁷ For not one of us is living to himself, and not one is dying to himself." ⁸ For both, if we should be living, to the Lord are we living, and if we should be dying, to the Lord are we dying. Then, both if we should be living and if we should be dying, we are the Lord's." ⁹ For for this Christ died and lives, that He should be Lord of the dead as well as of the living." ¹⁰ Now why are you judging your brother? Or why are you also scorning your brother? For all of us shall be presented at the dais of God, ¹¹ for it is written: Living am I, the Lord is saying, For to Me shall bow every knee, And every tongue shall be acclaiming God!" ¹² Consequently, then, each of us shall be giving account concerning himself to God." ¹³ By no means, then, should we still be judging one another, but rather decide this, not to place a stumbling block for a brother, or a snare." ¹⁴ I have perceived and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is contaminating of itself, except that the one reckoning anything to be contaminating, to that one it is contaminating." ¹⁵ For if, because of food, your brother is sorrowing, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not, by your food, destroy that one for whose sake Christ died." ¹⁶ Let not, then, your good be calumniated, ¹⁷ for the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in holy spirit." ¹⁸ For he who in this is slaving for Christ, is well pleasing to God and attested by men." ¹⁹ Consequently, then, we are pursuing that which makes for peace and that which is for edification of one another." ²⁰ Not on account of food demolish the work of God. All, indeed, is clean, but it is evil to the man who with stumbling is eating." ²¹ It is ideal not to be eating meat, nor yet to be drinking wine, nor yet to do aught by which your brother is stumbling, or is being snared or weakened." ²² The faith which you have, have for yourself in God's sight. Happy is he who is not judging himself in that which he is attesting." ²³ Now he who is doubting if he should be eating is condemned, seeing that it is not out of faith. Now everything which is not out of faith is sin."

⁷ tossing your entire worry on Him, for He is caring concerning you."

⁵ Yet you be sober in all things; suffer evil as an ideal soldier of Christ Jesus; do the work of an evangelist; fully discharge your service.

¹³ Wherefore, girding up the loins of your comprehension, being sober, expect perfectly the grace which is being brought to you at the unveiling of Jesus Christ." ¹⁴ As obedient children, not configuring to the former desires, in your ignorance, ¹⁵ but, according as He Who calls you is holy, you also become holy in all behavior, ¹⁶ because it is written that, Holy shall you be, for I am holy."

⁵ On this behalf I left you in Crete, that you should amend what is lacking and constitute elders city by city, as I prescribe to you." ⁶ If anyone is unimpeachable, the husband of one wife, having believing children, not under the accusation of profligacy or insubordinate -" ⁷ for the supervisor must be unimpeachable as an administrator of God, not given to self-gratification, not irritable, no toper, not quarrelsome, not avaricious;" ⁸ but hospitable, fond of that which is good, sane, just, benign, self-controlled;" ⁹ upholding the faithful word according to the teaching, that he may be able to entreat with sound teaching as well as to expose those who contradict."

⁴ Everyone who is doing sin is doing lawlessness also, and sin is lawlessness." ⁵ And you are aware that He was manifested that He should be taking away our sins, and in Him is no sin." ⁶ Everyone who is remaining in Him is not sinning. Everyone who is sinning sees Him not, neither knows Him." ⁷ Little children, let no one be deceiving you. He who is doing righteousness is just, according as He is just." ⁸ Yet he who is doing sin is of the Adversary, for from the beginning is the Adversary sinning. For this was the Son of God manifested, that He should be annulling the acts of the Adversary." ⁹ Everyone who is begotten of God is not doing sin, for His seed is remaining in him, and he can not be sinning, for he is begotten of God." ¹⁰ In this are apparent the children of God and the children of the Adversary: everyone who is not doing righteousness is not of God, and who is not loving his brother."

¹⁸ And be not drunk with wine, in which is profligacy, but be filled full with spirit, ¹⁹ Now apparent are the works of the flesh, which are adultery, prostitution, uncleanness, wantonness, ²⁰ idolatry, enchantment, enmities, strife, jealousies, furies, factions, dissensions, sects, ²¹ envies, murders, drunkennesses, revelries, and the like of these, which, I am predicting to you, according as I predicted also, that those committing such things shall not be enjoying the allotment of the kingdom of God." ²² Now the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ meekness, self-control: against such things there is no law." ²⁴ Now those of Christ Jesus crucify the flesh together with its passions, and lusts." ²⁵ If we may be living in spirit, in spirit we may be observing the elements also."

¹³ As in the day, respectably, should we be walking, not in revelries and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy, ¹⁴ but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and be making no provision for the lusts of the flesh."

¹⁹ Or are you not aware that your body is a temple of the holy spirit in you, which you have from God, and you are not your own? ²⁰ For you are bought with a price. By all means glorify God in your body.

¹ Christ, then, having suffered for our sakes in flesh, you also arm yourselves with the same thought, for he who is suffering in flesh has ceased his sins, ² 2 by no means still to spend the rest of his lifetime in the flesh in human desires, but in the will of God." ³ For sufficient is the time which has passed by to have effected the intention of the nations, having gone on in wantonness, lusts, debauches, revelries, drinking bouts, and illicit idolatries, ⁴ while they are thinking it strange of you not to race together into the same puddle of profligacy, calumniating you;" ⁵ who shall be rendering an account to Him Who is holding Himself in readiness to judge the living and the dead. ⁶ For for this an evangel is brought to the dead also, that they may be judged, indeed, according to men in flesh, yet should be living according to God, in spirit."

¹ Now you be speaking what is becoming to sound teaching. ² The aged men are to be sober, grave, sane, sound in the faith, in love, in endurance;" ³ the aged women, similarly, in demeanor as becomes the sacred, not adversaries, nor enslaved by much wine, teachers of the ideal, ⁴ that they may bring the young wives to a sense of their duty to be fond of their husbands, fond of their children, ⁵ sane, chaste, domestic, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed." ⁶ The younger men, similarly, entreat to be sane as to all things, ⁷ tendering yourself a model of ideal acts, in teaching with uncorruptness, gravity, ⁸ with words sound, uncensurable, that the contrary one may be abashed, having nothing bad to say concerning us."

²⁹ And saying is the Elohim, "Behold, I give to you all herbage seeding seed, which is on the surface of the entire earth, and every tree which has in it the fruit of a tree seeding seed. For you it is coming to be for food.

³ Into your hand are they given. "And every moving animal which is living is coming to be food for you. As the green herbage I give to you all.

⁸ Be sober! Watch! For your plaintiff, the Adversary, is walking about as a roaring lion, seeking someone to swallow up;"