What Does the Bible Say About Drugs and Prescription Drugs?
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
(Can prescription drugs be harmful to our bodies? Yes. Each drug has about 20 possible side effects. This is the best verse for why prescription drugs are anti-biblical and God would not approve of them. If something can harm your body, and you know very well that it could, then you shouldn't take it. "You are not your own." Your body is not your own body, it belongs to God. Your body is God's property because Jesus paid for it. To take presecription drugs that might harm your body is like spraying your body with spray paint. Any drug intake most likely looks just as crazy to God and unacceptable.)
1 Peter 5:8
Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
(It is well known that people use drugs when trying to communicate with demons. Drugs are a gateway into the spiritual realm. Prescriptions might be a small dose of what others would take when they abuse street drugs, but they are still drugs that can open doors to the evil spiritual realm. They might very well be opening a door to Satan in your life and especially your MIND.)
Romans 13:13-14
Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.
(The flesh wants to just be happy. If someone is promising a "happy pill" that would be making provision for the flesh, as in, giving the flesh everything it wants. We are supposed to kill the flesh, not listen to what it wants and give it what it wants.)
Titus 2:1-8
But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine. Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine.
(In biblical times they didn't have drugs, so when they talk about having too much wine it can be paralleled with drugs. It is funny in this passage he is only charging the WOMEN to not be slaves to much wine. Perhaps wine then and prescriptions today are more a struggle for women then men. Why? Maybe becasue women want to escape life more. It is hard to be a woman, but you just have to deal with it and accept it, and not try to forget reality through wine or drugs.)
Ephesians 5:18
And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit.
(The idea in this verse is we can either be filled with wine, on a side note it's odd alcohol is called 'spirits' so it might fill us with evil spirits, or we can be filled with the Holy Spirit. The same might be true about prescriptions. We can either fill ourselves with prescriptions drugs, OR we can fill ourselves with God's Holy Spirit.)
1 Corinthians 3:17
If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.
(This can refer to other people harming our body but also us harming our own body. If we are knowingly harming our bodies by taking prescription drugs that we know we can harm our bodies, this verse could be applied to us.)
Proverbs 20:1
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.
(Prescription drugs cause you to mock others and brawl and they lead people astray. Those who take prescription drugs are not wise.)
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