4 Bible Verses about Asceticism, Types

and as a widow till she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple, but worshipped with fasting and prayer night and day.

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

These are the ones who have not been defiled with women, for they have kept themselves chaste. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They have been purchased from among men as first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

But I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.