4 Bible Verses about Asceticism, Types

and she had been a widow until she was now eighty-four. She never left the Temple, but worshipped night and day with fasting and prayer.

As to the matters of which you wrote me, it is an excellent thing for a man to remain unmarried.

They are the men who have not been defiled by relations with women; they are celibates. It is they who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They have been ransomed from among men as the first-fruits for God and the Lamb,

But I beat and bruise my body and make it my slave, so that after I have called others to the contest I may not be disqualified myself.