15 Bible Verses about Abstinence

Hold aloof from every form of evil.

who discourage marriage, and enjoin abstinence from foods which God created to be received with thankfulness, by those who believe, and have a clear knowledge of the truth.

"but that we should write to them to abstain from the pollution of idols and from fornication, from meat killed by strangling, and from blood.

Do not refuse one another, unless it is only temporary and by mutual consent, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, lest through your lack of self-control Satan begin to tempt you to sin.

I beseech you, beloved, as pilgrims and exiles, to abstain from passions of the flesh that war upon your souls.

When for a long time they had been without food, Paul stood among them and said: "Men, you ought to have listened to me, and not have set sail from Crete, and so have spared yourselves this injury and loss.

"For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, "He shall drink neither wine nor strong drink, "He shall be filled with the Holy Spirit from the hour of his birth,

"For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they said, 'He has a demon';

"For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, 'He has a demon!'

The right course is not to eat meat, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything through which your brother is made to stumble.

Therefore, if what I eat makes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, lest I make my brother to stumble.

"that you abstain from food that has been sacrificed to idols, and from tasting blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication. Keep yourselves clear from these things and it will be well with you. Farewell."

For this is God's will, even your sanctification; that you should abstain from sexual vice.

and to knowledge self-control, and to self-control stedfastness, and to stedfastness piety,