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GAMBLING IS NOT A BIBLICAL SIN
Gambling is like drinking alcohol in the Bible. Jesus is okay with 1 drink but drinking is completely condemned when it controls and ruins lives.
So if gambling has control of your life you may want to learn how to pray and overcome temptation the Bible way so that you can quit.
The Bible says in James 1:14-15: But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.” 
To avoid these problems it might be a good idea to do exactly what Jesus did when he was tempted. Jesus fought temptation with the Word.

We struggle to quit because we either don’t completely believe the Bible or because we don’t know the Bible. Below are my top 20 list of Bible verses for quitting gambling. I can guarantee you that I believe the Bible. So my problem is that I don’t know these Bible verses the way I should.

A PRAYER FOR TODAY
We always talk about skills for quitting. Toughness is today’s tip. Life beats us up again and we need to increase toughness to overcome gambling. Pray, “Father, take away my spirit of gambling and help me to be tough when life gets hard.”

I bring this up because we need to read the Bible, spend time in prayer and increase our skills and habits for quitting. But at the key moment of temptation, we fight back with the Bible exactly the way Jesus did.
We should read, study and memorize these verses. And we should admit that they are right. I am not a greedy selfish pig. But do I struggle with covetousness? Probably.
There is power in the Word. Print it out, try it, believe it.

Gambling
 Proverbs 13:11 ESV
Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.
1 Timothy 6:9-10 ESV
But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.
Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 409 helpful votes 
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
Proverbs 28:19 ESV / 40 helpful votes 
Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty.
1 Corinthians 6:12 ESV / 165 helpful votes 
“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be enslaved by anything.
Matthew 6:24 ESV / 307 helpful votes 
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
1 Thessalonians 5:22 ESV / 42 helpful votes 
Abstain from every form of evil.
Ecclesiastes 5:10 ESV / 292 helpful votes 
He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity.
Luke 12:15 ESV / 185 helpful votes 
And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
Proverbs 28:22 ESV / 171 helpful votes 
A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty will come upon him.
Proverbs 10:22 ESV / 32 helpful votes 
The blessing of the Lord makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.
Exodus 20:17 ESV / 117 helpful votes 
“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.”
Matthew 6:19-21 ESV / 102 helpful votes 
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Mark 8:36 ESV / 98 helpful votes 
For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?
Proverbs 28:20 ESV / 66 helpful votes 
A faithful man will abound with blessings, but whoever hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.
Proverbs 1:10-19 ESV / 60 helpful votes 
My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent. If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood; let us ambush the innocent without reason; like Sheol let us swallow them alive, and whole, like those who go down to the pit; we shall find all precious goods, we shall fill our houses with plunder; throw in your lot among us; we will all have one purse”— …
Ephesians 5:5 ESV / 44 helpful votes 
For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
Philippians 4:19 ESV / 43 helpful votes 
And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
Proverbs 10:4 ESV / 41 helpful votes 
A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.
Proverbs 15:27 ESV / 40 helpful votes 
Whoever is greedy for unjust gain troubles his own household, but he who hates bribes will live.
Proverbs 20:21 ESV / 34 helpful votes 
An inheritance gained hastily in the beginning will not be blessed in the end.