4 Bible Verses about Asceticism, Types
Most Relevant Verses
Luke 2:37
and then being a widow of eighty-four years. She was never absent from the Temple, but worshipped, by day and by night, with fasting and prayer.
1 Corinthians 7:1
I now deal with the subjects mentioned in your letter. It is well for a man to abstain altogether from marriage.
Revelation 14:4
These are those who had not defiled themselves with women: they are as pure as virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever He goes. They have been redeemed from among men, as firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.
1 Corinthians 9:27
but I hit hard and straight at my own body and lead it off into slavery, lest possibly, after I have been a herald to others, I should myself be rejected.