15 Bible Verses about Abstinence

abstain from every evil sight.

forbidding to marry, commanding to abstain from meats, which God created for reception with thanksgiving to the faithful and to those perfectly knowing the truth.

but to command them to abstain from things offered to idols, and from fornication, and from strangulation, and from blood.

Do not defraud one another, unless it may be with consent for a time, that you may give attention to prayer, and again come together, in order that Satan may not tempt you on account of your incontinency.

Beloved, I exhort you as pilgrims and strangers, to abstain from the carnal desire which wars against the soul;

And there being much fasting, Paul standing in their midst, said, O men, truly it behooved you obeying me, not to depart from Crete, and incur this injury and loss.

For he shall be great before the Lord; and he shall not drink wine and strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost even from the womb of his mother.

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He has a demon.

For John the Baptist has come neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and you say, He has a demon.

it is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything by which your brother stumbles.

If indeed meat causes my brother to stumble, I never eat any more meat, in order that I may not lay a stumblingblock in the way of my brother.

to abstain from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which keeping yourselves, you will do well. Fare ye well.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you abstain from fornication;

and to knowledge holiness; and to holiness patience; and patience, godliness;