When life is heavy
What does the Bible say about recovery from addiction?
Scripture offers a God who breaks chains and a community meant to carry burdens together. Freedom is usually a road, not a moment.
What Scripture says
1 Corinthians 10:13
“No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.”
Galatians 5:1
“Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.”
James 5:16
“Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.”
Romans 8:1-2
“There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.”
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