Notes on Drugs

Drugs for Medicinal Purposes

• See Notes on Medicinal Products

Abused Drugs are Illegal

• Romans 13:1-5
• Titus 3:1
• I Peter 2:13-14

Drugs Intoxicate the User

• Matthew 24:45-51
• Luke 12:45
• Romans 13:12-14
• I Corinthians 5:11
• I Corinthians 6:9-11
• Galatians 5:19-21
• Ephesians 5:18
• I Thessalonians 5:6-8

Drugs Weaken the Mind's Ability to Judge and Exercise Self-Control

• Proverbs 4:23
• Acts 24:25
• I Corinthians 9:25-27
• Galatians 5:23
• I Thessalonians 5:6-8
• II Timothy 1:7
• Titus 2:2, 4, 6, 12
• I Peter 1:13-17
• I Peter 4:1-7
• I Peter 5:8-9
• II Peter 1:6

Drug Abuse is Progressive, Tempting the User into Deeper Sins

• Psalms 26:5
• Psalms 119:63
• Proverbs 4:14-15
• Proverbs 6:27-28
• Proverbs 13:20
• Proverbs 22:3
• Proverbs 23:17
• Proverbs 23:20-21
• Proverbs 24:1-2
• Matthew 6:13
• Matthew 18:8-9
• Matthew 26:41
• I Corinthians 5:6-7
• I Corinthians 15:33
• II Corinthians 6:14-17
• Hebrews 12:15
• James 4:4
• I Peter 4:3-4

Drug Abusers Lie to Cover Up Their Addiction

• Revelation 21:8
• I Timothy 1:10-11

Drug Abusers Become Negligent, Careless, Lazy

• Ecclesiastes 9:10
• Ephesians 6:5-8
• Colossians 3:22-24
• I Thessalonians 4:11-12
• II Thessalonians 3:10
• Titus 2:9-10
• I Peter 2:18

Because Drugs Abuse is Expensive and Abusers Aren't Hard Workers, They Tend to Steal to Support Their Habbit

• Matthew 15:19-20
• Romans 13:8-10
• I Corinthians 6:9-11

Because Religion Reminds Them They Are Wrong, Drug Abusers Lose Interest in Spiritual Things

• Psalms 1
• Matthew 6:33
• Matthew 16:24
• Acts 17:11
• Romans 12:1-2
• I Corinthians 15:58
• I Thessalonians 5:17
• Hebrews 10:25

Drugs Are Harmful to the Body

• II Samuel 12:13-23
• II Kings 20:1-7
• Matthew 25:35-36, 43
• Luke 12:42ff
• Romans 12:1-2
• I Corinthians 4:2
• I Corinthians 6:19-20
• II Corinthians 12:7-10
• James 5:13
• I Peter 4:10
• III John 2

Drug Abusers Set a Bad Example

• Proverbs 28:10
• Matthew 5:13-16
• Matthew 18:6-7
• Romans 1:32
• I Timothy 4:12
• I Timothy 5:22
• Titus 2:7-8
• I Peter 2:15-16
• I Peter 3:16

Drug Abusers Hang Out with Sinners

• Psalms 1:1
• Ephesians 5:11
• II John 9-11

God Is the Answer to Drug Addiction

• Psalms 138:3
• Romans 8:31-39
• I Corinthians 10:13
• Ephesians 3:20-21
• Ephesians 5:18
• Philippians 4:13
• James 1:17
• II Peter 1:3

A Drug Abuser Can Change and Be Forgiven

• Matthew 11:28-30
• John 8:32
• I Corinthians 6:9-11
• Hebrews 5:9
• Hebrews 7:25