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1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 ESV / 2 helpful votesHelpfulNot Helpful. For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;
- 1 Thessalonians 4:3-4 ESV / 311 helpful votes. For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,
- Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 308 helpful votes. Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
- 1 Corinthians 7:2 ESV / 290 helpful votes. But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
- 1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 161 helpful votes. Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
Oct 4, 2024 · Exploring the Bible’s teachings on abstinence can offer valuable guidance and inspiration. In times of temptation, Scripture provides clear directions to uphold purity and self-control. Join us as we look at various verses that encourage a life of abstinence, helping us align our actions with God’s will.
Jan 21, 2022 · 2 Timothy 2:22. So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart. 1 Peter 2:11. Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul. Genesis 39:7-10.
You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead. For you are a people holy to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. “You shall not eat any abomination.
Abstain means to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice. We know that God specifically commands humankind to abstain from idolatry, sexual immorality, drunkenness, and other sins. Acts 15:20, 29 instructs the Gentiles to abstain from idolatry, sexual immorality, consuming strangled things, and blood.
