'Abstain' in the Bible
but we should write a letter to them to abstain from the pollution of idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.
[that you] abstain from food sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. [If you] keep yourselves from {these things} you will do well. Farewell.
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: [that] you abstain from sexual immorality;
However, the solid foundation of God stands firm, having this seal: "The Lord knows those who are his," and "Everyone who names the name of the Lord must abstain from unrighteousness."
Dear friends, I urge [you] as foreigners and temporary residents to abstain from fleshly desires which wage war against your soul,