Bible verses about "marijuana" | Riverside

¹ THE Spirit says distinctly that in later times some will desert from the faith, giving attention to deceiving spirits and teachings of demons, ² through the hypocrisy of men who teach falsely, branded in their own consciences, ³ forbidding marriage, and insisting on abstinence from certain kinds of food which God made to be partaken of with thanksgiving by those who are faithful and know the truth. ⁴ For everything made by God is excellent and nothing is to be rejected if taken with thanksgiving. ⁵ For it is made holy through God's message and through prayer. ⁶ In teaching this to the brethren you will be a noble servant of Christ Jesus, nourished by the words of the faith and of the excellent teaching which you have followed.

¹¹ Not what enters the mouth defiles a man, but what comes out of the mouth — that defiles a man."

³⁴ Take care that your hearts are not dull through overeating and drinking and the cares of life, so that that day may come on you unexpectedly like a trap. ³⁵ For it will come on all who dwell on the face of all the earth. ³⁶ Be watchful at every season in prayer that you may be able to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man."

⁹ Do you not know that unrighteous people will not inherit the kingdom of God? Make no mistake, neither the unchaste, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who practice unnatural vices, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor the avaricious, nor drunkards, nor the abusive, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ And such some of you were. But you have washed yourselves; but you have been made holy; but you have been pronounced righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

¹ WELCOME him who is weak in the faith, but not in order to decide disputed questions. ² One man believes in eating all things. The weak man eats vegetables. ³ The man who eats is not to despise the one who does not eat, and he who does not eat is not to judge the one who eats. For God has accepted him. ⁴ Who are you to judge the servant of another? To his own master he stands or falls, and stand he will, for God is able to make him stand. ⁵ One man esteems one day above another, another man esteems every day. Let each be fully persuaded in his own mind. ⁶ He who regards the day regards it to the Lord and he who eats eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God. And he who does not eat abstains for the Lord and gives thanks to God. ⁷ For no one of us is living for himself and no one dies for himself. ⁸ If we live we live for the Lord and if we die we die for the Lord. So whether we live or die we are the Lord's. ⁹ For to this end Christ died and lived again, in order that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living. ¹⁰ But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you, why do you treat your brother with contempt? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of God. ¹¹ For it is written, "As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bend to me and every tongue shall confess to God." ¹² So then each one of us shall give account for himself to God. ¹³ Therefore let us no longer judge one another, but let us rather decide not to put a stumbling block in a brother's way, or anything to trip him up. ¹⁴ I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is defiling in itself. But to one who thinks anything to be defiling it is defiling. ¹⁵ If because of your food your brother is grieved, you are no longer walking in love. Do not with your food destroy him for whom Christ died. ¹⁶ Do not let what is good to you be spoken of as evil. ¹⁷ For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. ¹⁸ For he who thus serves Christ is pleasing to God and esteemed by men. ¹⁹ Therefore, let us seek for what makes for peace and our mutual upbuilding. ²⁰ Do not for the sake of food break down the work of God. All things are pure, but anything is evil to the man who eats it with a feeling of doing wrong. ²¹ It is noble not to eat meat or to drink wine or to do anything over which your brother stumbles. ²² The faith that you have, have to yourself before God. Blessed is the man who does not condemn himself for what he allows himself. ²³ He who has doubts and still eats stands condemned, because he is not acting from faith. But whatever does not spring from faith is sin.

⁴ But you, brethren, are not in darkness so that the day can take you like a thief. ⁵ You are all sons of light and sons of day. We do not belong to night or to darkness. ⁶ Then let us not be sleeping like the rest of men, but let us watch and be sober. ⁷ For those who sleep sleep in the night and those who drink drink in the night. ⁸ But let us who are of the day be sober. Let us put on the breastplate of faith and love and for a helmet the hope of salvation.

⁷ Cast all your anxiety on him, for he cares for you.

⁵ But you must be calm in all circumstances, suffer hardships, do the work of a bringer of the good news, carry out fully all the duties of your office.

¹³ Therefore brace up your minds, be calm and set your hope perfectly on the grace that is to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed. ¹⁴ As obedient children, do not shape your lives by the passions that ruled you in the former days of ignorance, ¹⁵ but, like the Holy One who has called you, become yourselves holy in all your way of life, ¹⁶ for it is written, "You shall be holy because I am holy."

⁵ For this reason I left you in Crete: to arrange the things that are lacking and appoint elders in every city as I directed you, ⁶ wherever there is a man of irreproachable character, true to one woman, with believing children who are not charged with dissolute conduct and not unruly. ⁷ For a bishop, as God's steward, must be above reproach, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not given to wine, not given to blows, not eager for base gain, ⁸ but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, just, holy, temperate, ⁹ holding to the trustworthy message which is according to the teaching, so that he may be able also to encourage others by wholesome teaching and to refute opposers.

⁴ Every one who commits sin commits also lawlessness; for sin is lawlessness. ⁵ You know that Christ appeared to take away sins and in him there is no sin. ⁶ Whoever remains in him does not sin; whoever sins has not seen him nor known him. ⁷ Little children, let no one deceive you. He who is doing righteousness is righteous as Christ is righteous. ⁸ He who is committing sin is of the Devil, for the Devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this the Son of God appeared — to undo the works of the Devil. ⁹ No one who has been born of God commits sin, for God's life-giving germ remains in him and he cannot continue sinning, because he has been born of God. ¹⁰ By this the children of God are plain to see, also the children of the Devil. Every one who is not doing righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.

¹³ Let us live becomingly as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in sensuality and licentiousness, not in quarrelling and jealousy. ¹⁴ But put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for gratifying physical passions.

¹⁹ Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own? ²⁰ For you were bought with a price. Glorify God then in your bodies.

¹⁸ Do not be drunk with wine, in which there is profligacy, but be full of the Spirit, ¹⁹ The works of the flesh are obvious, such as unchastity, impurity, indecency, ²⁰ idolatry, magic, hatred, strife, jealousy, anger, rivalries, dissensions, factions, ²¹ envyings, drinking bouts, revelries, and the like. Of these I tell you beforehand, as I have already told you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. ²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, slowness to anger, kindness, benevolence, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law. ²⁴ Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its emotions and passions. ²⁵ If we are living in the Spirit let us direct our lives by the Spirit.

¹ SINCE, then, Christ suffered in the flesh, you also must arm yourselves with the same mind. For he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, ² so that he does not go on living what remains of his time in the flesh according to human passions, but according to God's will. ³ The time that has passed was enough to spend doing the will of the Gentiles, when you went on in indecencies, passions, hard drinking, revelries, carousings, and lawless idolatries. ⁴ In these they think it strange that you are not running with them to the same excess of profligacy, and they slander you. ⁵ But they will have to give account to him who holds himself ready to judge the living and the dead. ⁶ And for this purpose the good news was told even to the dead, that they might be judged like men in the flesh, but live as God does in the spirit.

¹ YOU must speak to them of the matters which should have a place in wholesome teaching. ² Tell the older men to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, in patience. ³ Tell the older women, in the same way, to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is noble, ⁴ that they may train the young women to be loving wives and loving mothers, ⁵ self-controlled, pure, home-workers, kind, submissive to their own husbands, that God's message may not be slandered. ⁶ Urge the younger men, in the same way, to practice self-control in everything. ⁷ Make yourself an example of good works, sincerity in teaching, dignified behavior ⁸ and wholesome talk that is above censure, that our opponents may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say about us.

⁸ Be sober, watch. Your enemy the Devil, like a roaring lion, goes about seeking some one to devour.