3 Bible Verses about Asceticism, Types

and having been a widow for eighty-four years. She was never away from the temple; night and day she worshipped, fasting and praying.

Now about the questions in your letter. It is an excellent thing for a man to have no intercourse with a woman;

They have not been defiled by intercourse with women ??they are celibates; they follow the Lamb wherever he goes; they have been ransomed from among men, as the first to be reaped for God and the Lamb.