Abstain

…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.

Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood.

You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.

As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality.”

Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good to abstain from sexual relations.

For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;

Abstain from every form of evil.

Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.