Bible Verses About Abstinence
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for abstinence, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,146 votes, led by 1 Thessalonians 4:3-4. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Abstinence
1 Thessalonians 4:3-4312 votes
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
Hebrews 13:4309 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
1 Corinthians 7:2291 votes
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
1 Corinthians 6:18164 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
2 Timothy 2:22131 votes
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
1 Peter 2:11115 votes
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
1 Corinthians 6:1994 votes
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
Genesis 39:7-1089 votes
And it came to pass after these things, that his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.
Colossians 3:584 votes
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Galatians 5:19-2176 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Proverbs 31:3054 votes
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
Romans 13:1346 votes
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
1 Corinthians 10:1340 votes
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Ephesians 5:338 votes
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
2 Corinthians 12:2133 votes
And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
Jude 1:731 votes
Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Matthew 5:828 votes
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
1 Corinthians 9:2722 votes
But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
Acts 15:2019 votes
But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
Galatians 2:2019 votes
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
2 Timothy 1:717 votes
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Hebrews 13:1-2517 votes
Let brotherly love continue.
Proverbs 4:2314 votes
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Acts 15:2914 votes
That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
Mark 7:20-2312 votes
And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
What does the Bible say about abstinence?
Readers most often cite 1 Thessalonians 4:3-4 on the subject of abstinence. Across 2,146 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Hebrews 13:4, 1 Corinthians 7:2, 1 Corinthians 6:18. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.