15 Bible Verses about Abstinence

Abstain from every form of evil.

forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods, which God created for reception with thanksgiving by those who believe and have full knowledge of the truth.

but that we write to them to abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from anything strangled, and from blood;

Defraud not one the other, except by consent for a Season, that ye may have leisure for prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly desires, which, indeed, war against the soul;

And, after long abstinence from food, then Paul, standing up in the midst of them, said, "Ye ought, indeed, O men, hearkening to me, not to have set sail from Crete, and to have incurred this violence and loss.

for he will be great before the Lord; and he will drink no wine nor strong drink; and he will 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 Immerser, has come, neither eating bread, nor drinking wine; and ye say, 'He has a demon.'

It is good, neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything whereby your brother stumbles.

Wherefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will in no wise eat flesh forevermore; that I cause not my brother to stumble.

that ye abstain from idol-sacrifices, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which keeping yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well."

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

and in knowledge, continence; and in continence, patience; and in patience, godliness;