15 Bible Verses about Abstinence

Abstain from every form of evil.

who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

but that we should write to them to abstain from the pollutions of idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and from blood.

Do not deprive one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against your soul.

When they had gone a long time without food, then Paul stood up among them and said, "Men, you should have followed my advice and not to have set sail from Crete and incurred this damage and loss.

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink. He will also be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.

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

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

It is right not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that makes your brother stumble.

Therefore, if food causes my brother to fall, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause my brother to fall.

that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication. If you keep yourselves free from these, you will do well. Farewell."

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that is, that you should abstain from sexual immorality;

and to knowledge, self-control, and to self-control, perseverance, and to perseverance, godliness,