'Abstain' in the Bible

but to write to them to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication; keeping yourselves from which ye will do well. Farewell.

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

forbidding to marry, bidding to abstain from meats, which God has created for receiving with thanksgiving for them who are faithful and know the truth.

Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;