'Abstain' in the Bible

but that we write unto them, that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

that ye abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which if ye keep yourselves, it shall be well with you. Fare ye well.

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;

abstain from every form of evil.

forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by them that believe and know the truth.

Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lust, which war against the soul;