A. Drug abuse alcoholism etc:1CO 3:17. If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. PRO 23:29. Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? PRO 23:30. They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. PRO 23:31. Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. PRO 23:32. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. PRO 23:33. Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. PRO 23:34. Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. PRO 23:35. They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again. PRO 23:21. For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. PRO 31:4. It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink: PRO 31:5. Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted. ISA 5:11. Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them! ISA 28:7. But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment. B. Overeating:NUM 11:19. Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days; NUM 11:20. But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the LORD which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt? NUM 11:31. And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth. NUM 11:32. And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp. NUM 11:33. And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague. NUM 11:34. And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted. PHI 3:19. Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) PRO 23:1. When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: PRO 23:2. And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. PRO 23:3. Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat. PRO 23:21. For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. C. Overdoing physically gets body's resistance down:ECC 12:12. And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. PHI 2:27. For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow. PHI 2:30. Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me. D. Suffering because of sexual sins:ROM 1:27. And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. E. Pollution by factories pesticides chemicals etc.:ISA 24:5. The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. JER 2:7. And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination. AMO 7:17. Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land. MIC 2:10. Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction. ZEP 3:1. Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! ROM 1:30. Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, ROM 1:32. Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. REV 11:18. And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth. GEN 4:8. And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. GEN 4:16. And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. GEN 4:17. And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch. ISA 5:8. Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth! ISA 14:21. Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities. F. Greed & oppression cause wars suffering & misery:JOS 7:1. But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel. JOS 7:2. And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Bethaven, on the east of Bethel, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai. JOS 7:3. And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai; and make not all the people to labour thither; for they are but few. JOS 7:4. So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai. JOS 7:5. And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men: for they chased them from before the gate even unto Shebarim, and smote them in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as water. JOS 7:6. And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads. JOS 7:7. And Joshua said, Alas, O LORD God, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan! JOS 7:8. O LORD, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies! JOS 7:9. For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name? JOS 7:10. And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face? JOS 7:11. Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff. JOS 7:12. Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you. JOS 7:13. Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow: for thus saith the LORD God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you. JOS 7:14. In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which the LORD taketh shall come according to the families thereof; and the family which the LORD shall take shall come by households; and the household which the LORD shall take shall come man by man. JOS 7:15. And it shall be, that he that is taken with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath: because he hath transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he hath wrought folly in Israel. JOS 7:16. So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken: JOS 7:17. And he brought the family of Judah; and he took the family of the Zarhites: and he brought the family of the Zarhites man by man; and Zabdi was taken: JOS 7:18. And he brought his household man by man; and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken. JOS 7:19. And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the LORD God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not from me. JOS 7:20. And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against the LORD God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done: JOS 7:21. When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it. JOS 7:22. So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent; and, behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it. JOS 7:23. And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and brought them unto Joshua, and unto all the children of Israel, and laid them out before the LORD. JOS 7:24. And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor. JOS 7:25. And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones. JOS 7:26. And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day. PRO 15:27. He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live. NAH 3:1. Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not; 1TI 6:9. But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. 1TI 6:10. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. JAM 4:1. From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? JAM 4:2. Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. JAM 5:1. Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. JAM 5:2. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. JAM 5:3. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. JAM 5:4. Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. JAM 5:5. Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. JAM 5:6. Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you. PSA 73:3. For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. PSA 73:4. For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm. PSA 73:5. They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men. PSA 73:6. Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment. PSA 73:7. Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish. PSA 73:8. They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily. PSA 73:9. They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth. PSA 73:10. Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them. PSA 73:11. And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High? PSA 73:12. Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches. PSA 73:13. Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency. PSA 73:14. For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning. PSA 73:15. If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children. PSA 73:16. When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me; PSA 73:17. Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end. PSA 73:18. Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction. PSA 73:19. How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors. PSA 73:20. As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image. MIC 6:12. For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. MIC 6:13. Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins. MIC 6:14. Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and that which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword. MIC 6:15. Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine. |
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