Ephesians 5:18: Wine, Drunkenness, and the Spirit
Ephesians 5:18 names drunkenness as dissipation, a squandering of life, and commands something better in its place: being filled with the Spirit. The verse rules out a life mastered by drink without issuing a blanket ban on wine.
Your Body a Temple: 1 Corinthians 6:19–20
Paul grounds the call to honor God with our bodies in something God has already done: he bought us and made us his dwelling. That reframes smoking as a question of discipleship, not just a habit, and it does so without shame.