What does the Bible say about pot?
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The Bible calls believers to sober-minded self-control, warning against intoxication and every practice that clouds judgment, weakens vigilance, or leads into sin. First Peter 5:8 urges Christians to be sober and watchful because the devil seeks to devour. Ephesians 5:18 contrasts drunkenness with being filled by the Spirit, directing believers toward joyful, obedient dependence on God rather than chemical escape. Romans 13:13-14 calls us to put aside revelry and drunkenness and to put on Christ, making no provision for the flesh. Since our bodies belong to the Lord and are temples of the Holy Spirit, 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 summons us to honor God bodily. Christians should exercise wisdom, pursue holiness, and seek help where habits become enslaving.
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- 1 Peter 5:8
Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
- Ephesians 5:18
Don't be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,
- Romans 13:13-14
[13] Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy. [14] But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
- 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
[19] Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, [20] for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.
- Galatians 5:19-21
[19] Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, [20] idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies, [21] envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
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