What are some Bible verses about abstinence?

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1 Corinthians 7:2  

But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.  
  

Hebrews 13:4  

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 Thessalonians 4:3\-4  

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,  
  

1 Corinthians 6:18  

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.  
  

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  

And after a time his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph and said, “Lie with me.” But he refused and said to his master's wife, “Behold, because of me my master has no concern about anything in the house, and he has put everything that he has in my charge. He is not greater in this house than I am, nor has he kept back anything from me except yourself, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?” And as she spoke to Joseph day after day, he would not listen to her, to lie beside her or to be with her.  
  

1 Corinthians 6:19  

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,  
  

Colossians 3:5  

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.  
  

Galatians 5:19\-21  

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.  
  

Proverbs 31:30  

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.  
  

Romans 13:13  

Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy.  
  

2 Corinthians 12:21  

I fear that when I come again my God may humble me before you, and I may have to mourn over many of those who sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity, sexual immorality, and sensuality that they have practiced.  
  

Jude 1:7  

Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.  
  

1 Corinthians 10:13  

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.  
  

Ephesians 5:3  

But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.  
  

Matthew 5:8  

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.  
  

1 Corinthians 9:27  

But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.  
  

2 Timothy 1:7  

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self\-control.  
  

Galatians 2:20  

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.  
  

*Unless otherwise noted, all Bible verses are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® Copyright© 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.*  
  

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