Bible verses about "marijuana" | Moffatt

¹ But in later days, the Spirit distinctly declares, certain people will rebel against the faith; they will listen to spirits of error and to the doctrines that daemons teach ² through plausible sophists who are seared in conscience — ³ men who prohibit marriage and insist on abstinence from foods which God created for believing men, who understand the Truth, to partake of with thanksgiving. ⁴ Anything God has created is good, and nothing is to be tabooed — provided it is eaten with thanksgiving, ⁵ for then it is consecrated by the prayer said over it. ⁶ Lay this before the brotherhood, and you will be an excellent minister of Christ Jesus, brought up on the truths of the faith and on the lessons of the good doctrine you have already followed.

¹¹ it is not what enters a man's mouth that defiles him, what defiles a man is what comes out of his mouth."

³⁴ Take heed to yourselves in case your hearts get overpowered by dissipation and drunkenness and worldly anxieties, and so that Day catches you suddenly like a trap. ³⁵ For it will come upon all dwellers on the face of all the earth. ³⁶ From hour to hour keep awake, praying that you may succeed in escaping all these dangers to come and in standing before the Son of man."

⁹ What! do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the Realm of God? Make no mistake about it; neither the immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor catamites nor sodomites ¹⁰ nor thieves nor the lustful nor the drunken nor the abusive nor robbers will inherit the Realm of God. ¹¹ Some of you were once like that; but you washed yourselves clean, you were consecrated, you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

¹ Welcome a man of weak faith, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on his scruples. ² While one man has enough confidence to eat any food, the man of weak faith only eats vegetables. ³ The eater must not look down upon the non-eater, and the non-eater must not criticize the eater, for God has welcomed him. ⁴ Who are you to criticize the servant of Another? It is for his Master to say whether he stands or falls; and stand he will, for the Master has power to make him stand. ⁵ Then again, this man rates one day above another, while that man rates all days alike. Well, everyone must be convinced in his own mind; ⁶ the man who values a particular day does so to the Lord. The eater eats to the Lord, since he thanks God for his food; the non-eater abstains to the Lord, and he too thanks God. ⁷ For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself; ⁸ if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. Thus we are the Lord's whether we live or die; ⁹ it was for this that Christ died and rose and came to life, to be Lord both of the dead and of the living. ¹⁰ So why do you criticize your brother? And you, why do you look down upon your brother? All of us have to stand before the tribunal of God — ¹¹ for it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bend before me, every tongue shall offer praise to God. ¹² Each of us then will have to answer for himself to God. ¹³ So let us stop criticizing one another; rather make up your mind never to put any stumbling-block or hindrance in your brother's way. ¹⁴ I know, I am certain in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is in itself unclean; only, anything is unclean for a man who considers it unclean. ¹⁵ If your brother is being injured because you eat a certain food, then you are no longer living by the rule of love. Do not let that food of yours ruin the man for whom Christ died. ¹⁶ Your rights must not get a bad name. ¹⁷ The Reign of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, it means righteousness, peace, and joy in the holy Spirit; ¹⁸ he who serves Christ on these lines, is acceptable to God and esteemed by men. ¹⁹ Peace, then, and the building up of each other, these are what we must aim at. ²⁰ You must not break down God's work for the mere sake of food! Everything may be clean, but it is wrong for a man to prove a stumbling-block by what he eats; ²¹ the right course is to abstain from flesh or wine or indeed anything that your brother feels to be a stumbling-block. ²² Certainly keep your own conviction on the matter, as between yourself and God; he is a fortunate man who has no misgivings about what he allows himself to eat. ²³ But if anyone has doubts about eating and then eats, that condemns him at once; it was not faith that induced him to eat, and any action that is not based on faith is a sin.

⁴ But, brothers, you are not in the darkness for the Day to surprise you like thieves; ⁵ you are all sons of the Light and sons of the day. We do not belong to the night or the darkness. ⁶ Well then, we must not sleep like the rest of men, but be wakeful and sober; ⁷ for sleepers sleep by night and drunkards are drunk by night, ⁸ but we must be sober, we who belong to the day, clad in faith and love as our coat of mail, with the hope of salvation as our helmet —

⁷ let all your anxieties fall upon him, for his interest is in you.

⁵ Whatever happens, be self-possessed, flinch from no suffering, do your work as an evangelist, and discharge all your duties as a minister.

¹³ Brace up your minds, then, keep cool, and put your hope for good and all in the grace that is coming to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. ¹⁴ Be obedient children, instead of moulding yourselves to the passions that once ruled the days of your ignorance; ¹⁵ as He who called you is holy, so you must be holy too in all your conduct — ¹⁶ for it is written, You shall be holy because I am holy.

⁵ I left you behind in Crete in order to finish putting things right and to appoint presbyters in every town as I told you, ⁶ men who are above reproach, only once married, with children who believe and who are not liable to the charge of being profligate or insubordinate. ⁷ [For a bishop must be above reproach — he is a steward of God's house — he must not be presumptuous or hot-tempered or a drunkard or violent or addicted to pilfering; ⁸ he must be hospitable, a lover of goodness, master of himself, a just man, a religious man, and abstemious; ⁹ he must hold by the sure truths of doctrine so as to be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and refute objections raised by any.]

⁴ Everyone who commits sin commits lawlessness: sin is lawlessness, ⁵ and you know he appeared to take [our] sins away. In him there is no sin; ⁶ anyone who remains in him does not sin — anyone who sins has neither seen nor known him. ⁷ Let no one deceive you, my dear children: he who practises righteousness is just, as He is just; ⁸ he who commits sin belongs to the devil, for the devil is a sinner from the very beginning. (This is why the Son of God appeared, to destroy the deeds of the devil.) ⁹ Anyone who is born of God does not commit sin, for the offspring of God remain in Him, and they cannot sin, because they are born of God. ¹⁰ Here is how the children of God and the children of the devil are recognized; anyone who does not practise righteousness does not belong to God, and neither does he who has no love for his brother.

¹⁹ Now the deeds of the flesh are quite obvious, such as sexual vice, impurity, sensuality, ²⁰ idolatry, magic, quarrels, dissension, jealousy, temper, rivalry, factions, party-spirit, ²¹ envy, [murder], drinking bouts, revelry, and the like; I tell you beforehand as I have told you already, that people who indulge in such practices will never inherit the Realm of God. ²² But the harvest of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, good temper, kindliness, generosity, fidelity, ²³ gentleness, self-control: — there is no law against those who practise such things. ²⁴ Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its emotions and passions. ²⁵ As we live by the Spirit, let us be guided by the Spirit;

¹³ let us live decorously as in the open light of day — no revelry or bouts of drinking, no debauchery or sensuality, no quarrelling or jealousy. ¹⁴ No, put on the character of the Lord Jesus Christ, and never think how to gratify the cravings of the flesh.

¹⁹ Do you not know your body is the temple of the holy Spirit within you — the Spirit you have received from God? You are not your own, ²⁰ you were bought for a price; then glorify God with your body.

¹⁸ and do not get drunk with wine — that means profligacy — but be filled with the Spirit,

¹ Well, as Christ has suffered for us in the flesh, let this very conviction that he who has suffered in the flesh gets quit of sin, ² nerve you to spend the rest of your time in the flesh for the will of God and no longer for human passions. ³ It is quite enough to have done as pagans choose to do, during the time gone by! You used to lead lives of sensuality, lust, carousing, revelry, dissipation and illicit idolatry, ⁴ and it astonishes them that you will not plunge with them still into the same flood of profligacy. They abuse you, ⁵ but they will have to answer for that to Him who is prepared to judge the living and the dead ⁶ (for this was why the gospel was preached to the dead as well, that while they are judged in the flesh as men, they may live as God lives in the spirit).

¹ You must instruct people in what is due to sound doctrine. ² Tell the older men to be temperate, serious, masters of themselves, sound in faith, in love, and in stedfastness. ³ Tell the older women also to be reverent in their demeanour and not to be slanderers or slaves to drink; ⁴ they must give good counsel, so that the young women may be trained to love their husbands and children, ⁵ to be mistress of themselves, chaste, domestic, kind, and submissive to their husbands — otherwise it will be a scandal to the gospel. ⁶ Tell the young men also to be masters of themselves at all points; ⁷ set them an example of good conduct; be sincere and serious in your teaching, ⁸ let your words be sound and such that no exception can be taken to them, so that the opposite side may be confounded by finding nothing that they can say to our discredit.

⁸ Keep cool, keep awake. Your enemy the devil prowls like a roaring lion, looking out for someone to devour.