For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife? 1 Corinthians 7:16 Several years ago, when my abuse of prescription pain pills came to light – meaning my wife found out – I got sober really quick. I promised I’d…
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To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband (but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife. 1 Corinthians 7:10-11 In the disastrous consequences of my drug addiction, my…
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Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. 1 Corinthians 7:5 I spend a sizable portion of my week providing medical care at a chemical…
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For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. 1 Corinthians 7:4 I’ve often said that my drug addiction hasn’t been my greatest flaw in life. My addiction was only a symptom of my…
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You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 Spend enough time around any Christian recovery program, and you will eventually run into someone who’s experienced a radical, miraculous deliverance from a specific addiction. That’s not been my experience, but I cannot discount those who’ve had the miracle. Once,…
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Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? 1 Corinthians 6:19 The challenge for many addicts and alcoholics, when they get out of treatment or jail, is that they go back to their old life which usually means their old friends.…
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Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 1 Corinthians 6:13 When I was a child, I once drank strawberry shampoo. I just knew that something…
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“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything. 1 Corinthians 6:12 Long before I lost control to my drug use, I chose the drug for a reason. It made me feel good. It helped me sleep. I…
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Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 Ever since I was a child, I’ve had this temptation to use the Bible against those around me.…
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To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded? 1 Corinthians 6:7 In trying to be healthy, I occasionally exercise too much and eat too little. Whenever I do so, I enter a state of heightened irritability of which I…
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