'Abstain' in the Bible

but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell."

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

Abstain from every form of evil.

forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;