KJV dictionary & concordance
To refrain deliberately; to hold oneself back from something.
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First occurrence: Acts 15:20
Complete exact-word concordance
But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
But that wee write vnto them, that they abstaine from pollutions of Idoles, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
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.
That ye abstaine from meates offered to idoles, and from blood, & from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keepe your selues, yee shall doe well. Fare ye well.
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
For this is the will of God, euen your sanctification, that yee should absteine from fornication:
abstain from all appearance of evil.
Abstaine from all appearance of euill.
Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
Forbidding to marry, and commanding to absteine from meates, which God hath created to bee receiued with thankesgiuing of them which beleeue, and know the trueth.
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Dearely beloued, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrimes, abstaine from fleshly lusts, which warre against the soule,
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