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Abstinence 1 Corinthians 7:2
But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
Open passageAbstinence Hebrews 13:4
Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Open passageAbstinence 1 Thessalonians 4:3, 4
For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality; / each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,
Open passageAbstinence 1 Corinthians 6:18
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
Open passageAbstinence 2 Timothy 2:22
Flee from youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, together with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Open passageAbstinence 1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.
Open passageAbstinence 1 Corinthians 6:19
Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
Open passageAbstinence Colossians 3:5
Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
Open passageAmusements and Worldly Pleasures: Abstinence From, Seems Strange to the Wicked 1 Peter 4:4
Because of this, they consider it strange of you not to plunge with them into the same flood of reckless indiscretion, and they heap abuse on you.
Open passageDaniel: A Jewish Captive, Also Called Belteshazzar: Abstinence of Daniel 1:8–16
But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king’s food or wine. So he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself. / Now God had granted Daniel favor and compassion from the chief official, / but he said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who has assigned your food and drink. For why should he see your faces looking thinner than those of the other young men your age? You would endanger my head before the king!”
Open passageRechabites: Adhere to the Injunction of Abstinence; Perpetuation of the Family Promised As a Reward Jeremiah 35:1
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah:
Open passageTotal Abstinence: Daniel Daniel 1:8, 12
But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king’s food or wine. So he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself. / “Please test your servants for ten days. Let us be given only vegetables to eat and water to drink.
Open passageTotal Abstinence: from Intoxicating Beverages Leviticus 10:8–10
Then the LORD said to Aaron, / “You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink when you enter the Tent of Meeting, or else you will die; this is a permanent statute for the generations to come. / You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean,
Open passageTotal Abstinence: from Intoxicating Beverages Numbers 6:3, 4
he is to abstain from wine and strong drink. He must not drink vinegar made from wine or strong drink, and he must not drink any grape juice or eat fresh grapes or raisins. / All the days of his separation, he is not to eat anything that comes from the grapevine, not even the seeds or skins.
Open passageTotal Abstinence: from Intoxicating Beverages Judges 13:4, 13, 14
Now please be careful not to drink wine or strong drink, and not to eat anything unclean. / So the angel of the LORD answered Manoah, “Your wife is to do everything I told her. / She must not eat anything that comes from the vine, nor drink any wine or strong drink, nor eat anything unclean. She must do everything I have commanded her.”
Open passageTotal Abstinence: from Intoxicating Beverages Esther 1:8
By order of the king, no limit was placed on the drinking, and every official of his household was to serve each man whatever he desired.
Open passageTotal Abstinence: from Intoxicating Beverages Proverbs 23:20, 31, 32
Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat. / Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly. / In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.
Open passageTotal Abstinence: from Intoxicating Beverages Proverbs 31:4
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to crave strong drink,
Open passageTotal Abstinence: from Intoxicating Beverages Jeremiah 35:6–8, 14
“We do not drink wine,” they replied, “for our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab commanded us, ‘Neither you nor your descendants are ever to drink wine. / Nor are you ever to build a house or sow seed or plant a vineyard. Those things are not for you. Instead, you must live in tents all your lives, so that you may live a long time in the land where you wander.’ / And we have obeyed the voice of our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab in all he commanded us. So we have not drunk wine all our lives—neither we nor our wives nor our sons and daughters.
Open passageTotal Abstinence: from Intoxicating Beverages Luke 1:15
for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He shall never take wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother’s womb.
Open passageTotal Abstinence: Israelites in the Wilderness Deuteronomy 29:6
You ate no bread and drank no wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.
Open passageTotal Abstinence: John the Baptist Matthew 11:18
For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon!’
Open passageTotal Abstinence: John the Baptist Luke 1:15
for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He shall never take wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother’s womb.
Open passageTotal Abstinence: John the Baptist Luke 7:33
For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon!’
Open passageTotal Abstinence: Rechabites Jeremiah 35:6–14
“We do not drink wine,” they replied, “for our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab commanded us, ‘Neither you nor your descendants are ever to drink wine. / Nor are you ever to build a house or sow seed or plant a vineyard. Those things are not for you. Instead, you must live in tents all your lives, so that you may live a long time in the land where you wander.’ / And we have obeyed the voice of our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab in all he commanded us. So we have not drunk wine all our lives—neither we nor our wives nor our sons and daughters.
Open passageTotal Abstinence: Samson Judges 16:17
Samson told her all that was in his heart: “My hair has never been cut, because I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, my strength will leave me, and I will become as weak as any other man.”
Open passageTotal Abstinence: Samson Judges 13:3–5, 13, 14
The angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, “It is true that you are barren and have no children; but you will conceive and give birth to a son. / Now please be careful not to drink wine or strong drink, and not to eat anything unclean. / For behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. And no razor shall come over his head, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he will begin the deliverance of Israel from the hand of the Philistines.”
Open passageTotal Abstinence: Samson Numbers 6:3, 4
he is to abstain from wine and strong drink. He must not drink vinegar made from wine or strong drink, and he must not drink any grape juice or eat fresh grapes or raisins. / All the days of his separation, he is not to eat anything that comes from the grapevine, not even the seeds or skins.
Open passageWine: Abstinence from of Daniel Daniel 1:5, 8, 16
The king assigned them daily provisions of the royal food and wine. They were to be trained for three years, after which they were to enter the king’s service. / But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king’s food or wine. So he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself. / So the steward continued to withhold their choice food and the wine they were to drink, and he gave them vegetables instead.
Open passageWine: Abstinence from of Daniel Daniel 10:3
I ate no rich food, no meat or wine entered my mouth, and I did not anoint myself with oil until the three weeks were completed.
Open passageWine: Abstinence from of the Courtiers of Ahasuerus Esther 1:8
By order of the king, no limit was placed on the drinking, and every official of his household was to serve each man whatever he desired.
Open passageWine: Abstinence from of Timothy 1 Timothy 5:23
Stop drinking only water and use a little wine instead, because of your stomach and your frequent ailments.
Open passageWorldly Amusements and Pleasures: Abstinence From, Seems Strange to the Wicked 1 Peter 4:4
Because of this, they consider it strange of you not to plunge with them into the same flood of reckless indiscretion, and they heap abuse on you.
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