15 Bible Verses about Abstinence

Abstain from all appearance of evil.

Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by them that believe and know the truth.

But that we write to them, to abstain from things offered to idols and fornication, and things strangled and blood.

Withdraw not from each other, unless it be by consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to prayer, and may come together again, lest Satan tempt you through your incontinence.

Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly desires,

But after long abstinence, Paul standing in the midst of them, said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened to me, and not have loosed from Crete, and so have avoided this injury and loss.

For he shall be great before the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.

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

For John the Baptist came neither eating bread, nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.

It is good, not to eat flesh, neither to drink wine, nor to do any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or made weak.

Wherefore if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.

and things strangled and fornication; from which keeping yourselves ye will do well. Fare ye well.

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

and to courage knowledge, And to knowledge temperance, and to temperance patience,