Abstain

 by David Long

"For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication" (1 Thess. 4:3). 

"abstain from every form of evil" (1 Thess. 5:22). 

"Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lust, which war against the soul" (1 Pet. 2:11). 

Abstain means "to hold oneself off, i.e. refrain; to keep on avoiding doing something - 'to restrain from, to not do, to avoid doing, to keep from doing."