15 Bible Verses about Abstinence

abstain from every form of evil.

forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from food which God created to be received with thanksgiving, for those who believe and know the truth.

but that we should write to them by letter to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from that which hath been strangled, and from blood.

Defraud not one another, except by agreement for a time, that ye may have a season for prayer; and be together again, that Satan may not tempt you through your incontinence.

Beloved, I exhort you, as sojourners and strangers, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

And after there had been much abstinence from food, Paul stood up in the midst of them and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened to me, and not have put to sea from Crete, nod thus brought upon yourselves this injury and loss.

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord; and will drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit from his very birth.

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

For John the Baptist hath come not eating bread, nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a demon.

It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is put in danger of falling, or is made weak.

Wherefore, if food cause my brother to fall, I will eat no flesh for ever, lest I cause my brother to fall. Am I not free?

to abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which if ye keep yourselves, ye will do well. Farewell."

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

and to knowledge selfcontrol, and to selfcontrol endurance, and to endurance godliness,