15 Bible Verses about Abstinence

if it has the least appearance of evil, reject it.

interdicting marriage; and the use of animal food; which God created for the repast of the faithful, who embrace the truth with thankfulness.

that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, from fornication, from animals that are strangled, and from their blood.

don't desert one another, unless you mutually consent to retire for a time, to the solemnity of prayer; and then come together again, lest satan make an attempt upon your continency.

but at present have obtain'd it. I exhort you, my dear brethren, as strangers and travellers to avoid all sensual passions, as destructive to your

and our spirits droop with fasting: when Paul presented himself, and said, "well, my friends, it had been, if I could have prevail'd upon you, to have sav'd your selves all this perplexity and loss by staying at Crete.

he shall appear as a divine messenger. he shall drink neither wine, nor any other strong liquor: he shall be filled with the holy spirit, even from his infancy:

so John came with fasting and abstinence, and they say, he is mad.

for John the Baptist, when he came, abstain'd from bread and wine; yet you say, he is possess'd with a demon.

it is better to abstain from flesh, and wine, and every thing whereby your brother is in danger of falling off.

wherefore if my eating makes my brother offend, I will never eat flesh rather than make my brother offend.

that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the flesh of strangled animals, and from fornication: you will do well to preserve your selves from these practices. farewel.

and such is the will of God, that you should be holy, and avoid licentiousness;

to knowledge, temperance: to temperance, patience: to patience, piety: