Bible verses about "abstinence" | Anderson

¹³ Let us walk in a becoming manner, as in the day; not in riotings and in drunkenness, not in lewdness and in wantonness, not in. contention and in envy:

¹³ No trial has come upon you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tried more than you are able to bear; but he will, with the trial, make a way to escape, so that you be able to bear up under it.

²¹ lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and I shall mourn over many of those who have already sinned, and have not repented of the uncleanness and lewdness and wantonness which they have committed.

⁷ So Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities which were about them, in like manner giving themselves over to lewdness, and following after other flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

² But, to avoid lewd practices, let every man have his own wife, and every woman her own husband.

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are well known, and they are these lewdness, uncleanness, wantonness, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strifes, jealousies, anger, party-spirit, divisions, sects, ²¹ envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; with respect to which, I tell you now, as I also told you in times past, that those who practice such things shall riot inherit the kingdom of God.

⁵ Put to death, therefore, your members that are on the earth, lewdness, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

¹⁹ Know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, which you have from God, and that you are not your own?

¹¹ Beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and sojourners, that you keep yourselves from fleshly desires, which war against the soul,

¹⁸ Shun lewdness. Every sin that a man commits, is without the body; but he that is guilty of lewdness sins against his own body.

²² Shun youthful desires, and follow righteousness, faithfulness, love, peace, with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

⁴ Marriage is honorable among all men, and the bed undefiled; but lewd men and adulterers God will judge.

³ For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you keep yourselves from lewdness; ⁴ That each one of you know how to keep his vessel in sanctification and in honor,