Bible verses about "abstinence" | Twentieth_Century

¹³ Being in the light of Day, let us live becomingly, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lust and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy.

¹³ No temptation has come upon you that is not common to all mankind. God will not fail you, and he will not allow you to be tempted beyond your strength; but, when he sends the temptation, he will also provide the way of escape, so that you may have strength to endure.

²¹ I am afraid lest, on my next visit, my God may humble me in regard to you, and that I may have to mourn over many who have long been sinning, and have not repented of the impurity, immorality, and sensuality, in which they have indulged.

⁷ Like Sodom and Gomorrah and the towns near them, which gave themselves up to fornication, and fell into unnatural vice, these angels now stand out as a warning, undergoing, as they are, the punishment of aeonian fire.

² But, owing to the prevalence of immorality, I advise every man to have his own wife, and every woman her husband.

¹⁹ The sins of our earthly nature are unmistakable. They are sins like these--unchastity, impurity, indecency, ²⁰ Idolatry, sorcery, quarrels, strife, jealousy, outbursts of passion, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, ²¹ Feelings of envy, drunkenness, revelry, and the like. And I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who indulge in such things will have no place in the Kingdom of God.

⁵ Therefore destroy all that is earthly in you--immorality, uncleanness, passions, evil desires, and that greed which is idolatry.

¹⁹ Again, do not you know that your body is a shrine of the Holy Spirit that is within you-the Spirit which you have from God?

¹¹ Dear friends, I urge you, as pilgrims and strangers upon earth, to refrain from indulging the cravings of your earthly nature, for they make war upon the soul.

¹⁸ Shun all immorality. Every other sin that men commit is something outside the body; but an immoral man sins against his own body.

²² Flee from the passions of youth, but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, in the company of those who, with a pure heart, invoke the Lord.

⁴ Let marriage be honoured by all and the married life be pure; for God will judge those who are immoral and those who commit adultery.

³ For this is God's purpose--that you should be pure; abstaining from all immorality; ⁴ Each of you recognizing the duty of taking one woman for his wife, purely and honorably,