Limitless Word
ἀπέχομαιapéchomai
GreekG5676 occurrences (KJV)

to hold oneself off, i.e. refrain

KJV renders it: abstain

Where it appears

  • Acts 15:20but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.
  • Acts 15:29that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”
  • 1 Th 4:3For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
  • 1 Th 5:22Abstain from every form of evil.
  • 1 Tim 4:3forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
  • 1 Pet 2:11Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.