Recovery is rarely a straight line. These verses are for the daily, repeated choice to keep going.
// the word for this moment
“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.”
1 Corinthians 10:13 (KJV)
“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”
2 Corinthians 5:17 (KJV)“Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.”
Philippians 1:6 (KJV)This verse doesn't promise temptation disappears — it promises a way through it, every time, even when it doesn't feel that way in the moment. Recovery is rarely won in one dramatic decision; it's won in thousands of small ones, on ordinary days no one's watching. Philippians 1:6 is for those ordinary days — the work isn't finished, but it isn't abandoned either.