“abstain” in the Douay-Rheims Bible
The word abstain appears 6 times in the Douay-Rheims Bible. The first 6 matching verses are shown below.
- Numbers 6:3 They shall abstain from wine, and from every thing that may make a man drunk. They shall not drink vinegar of wine, or of any other drink, nor any thing that is pressed out of the grape: nor shall they eat grapes either fresh or dried.
- Tobias 1:10 And from his infancy he taught him to fear God, and to abstain from all sin.
- Ecclesiasticus 3:32 A wise heart, and which hath understanding, will abstain from sins, and in the works of justice shall have success.
- Acts 15:29 That you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication: from which things keeping yourselves, you shall do well. Fare ye well.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: That you should abstain from fornication:
- 1 Timothy 4:3 Forbidding to marry, to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful and by them that have known the truth.