8 Bible Verses about Abuse, Of Spiritual Things

What then is my wage? This, that I can make the gospel free where I carry it; and that I can refrain from using my rights as a preacher of the gospel.

and those who use the world as though using it sparingly. For the present phase of the world is passing away.

especially those who spend their lives following the flesh in the lust of defilement, and in despising all authority. Audacious and willful, they feel no awe in railing against dignities;

But in giving you the following instructions, I cannot praise you; your solemn assemblies do more harm than good.

For certain men have crept in stealthily??en predestined in ancient prophecies for this condemnation??mpious ones! They pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness, and deny Jesus Christ, our sole Master and Lord.

And why not say (as I myself am slanderously reported to say), "Let us do evil that good may come out of it"? Such arguments are rightly condemned.

What then shall we say? Shall we continue to abound in sin, in order that grace may come to abound?

What then? Shall we commit an act of sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Certainly not.