15 Bible Verses about Abstinence

Continue to abstain from every sort of evil.

who forbid people to marry and teach them to abstain from certain sorts of food which God created for the grateful enjoyment of those who have faith and a clear knowledge of the truth.

but we should write them to abstain from everything that is contaminated by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from tasting blood.

You husbands and wives must stop refusing each other what is due, unless you agree to do so just for awhile, so as to have plenty of time for prayer, and then to be together again, so as to keep Satan from tempting you because of your lack of self-control.

Dearly beloved, I beg you as aliens and exiles to keep on abstaining from the evil desires of your lower nature, because they are always at war with the soul.

After they had gone a long time without any food, then Paul got up among them and said: "Men, you ought to have listened to me and not to have sailed from Crete, and you would have escaped this disaster and loss.

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He must drink no wine nor strong drink, and so he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his birth.

For John came neither eating nor drinking with others, and yet they said, 'He has a demon.'

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

The right thing to do is not to eat meat, or drink wine, or do anything else, that makes your brother stumble.

So then, if food can make my brother fall, I will never, no, never, eat meat again, in order to keep my brother from falling.

that you abstain from everything that is offered to idols, from tasting blood, from the meat of animals that have been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves free from these things, you will prosper. Good-by."

For it is God's will that you should keep pure in person, that you should practice abstinence from sexual immorality,

knowledge with self-control, self-control with patient endurance, patient endurance with piety,