Bible Verses About Abstinence

"But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints."

Ephesians 5:3

"Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness."

Galatians 5:19

"Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband."

1 Corinthians 7:2

"Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body."

1 Corinthians 6:18

"Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body."

1 Corinthians 6:13

"Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers."

Romans 1:29

"For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders."

Mark 7:21

"It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality;"

1 Thessalonians 4:3

"Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry."

Colossians 3:5

"But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people."

Ephesians 5:3

"And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?"

Judges 9:13

"Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities."

1 Timothy 5:23

"Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth."

1 Timothy 4:3

"Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul:"

1 Peter 2:11

"But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood."

Acts 15:20