15 Bible Verses about Abstinence

Abstain from all appearance of evil.

and enjoining abstinence from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by those that believe and know the truth.

that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

Do not withdraw from one another, unless by consent for a season, that ye may attend to fasting and prayer: and come together again, least Satan tempt you through your incontinency.

Dearly beloved, I exhort you as strangers and sojourners here, to abstain from carnal lusts, which war against the soul:

But after long abstinence from food, Paul stood up in the midst of them and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not loosed from Crete, and so have saved this damage and loss.

and he shall drink neither wine nor any other strong liquor; and he shall be filled with the holy Spirit even from his birth;

for John came neither eating nor drinking as others do, and they say, He is beside himself:

for John the baptist came neither eating bread, nor drinking wine, and ye say, he hath a demon:

It is good not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do any thing at which thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or weakened.

wherefore if meat make my brother to offend, I will never eat flesh while I breathe, least I make my brother to offend.

That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from fornication: from which ye will do well to keep yourselves. Farewel.

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

and to fortitude knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience piety;