For another reason they were directed to abstain from "meats offered to idols.
The Apostle does not declare simply that it is good to abstain from wine, but that it is good in the case where this would give scandal to certain people.
Hence the vice opposed to drunkenness is unnamed; and yet if a man were knowingly to abstain from wine to the extent of molesting nature grievously, he would not be free from sin.
A Multitude of other Remedies are cried up for the Cure of Fevers: though none of them are equally efficacious with those I have directed: and as many of them are even dangerous, it is prudent to abstain from them.
The angels said unto him, O Abraham, abstain from this; for now is the command of thy LORD come, to put their sentence in execution, and an inevitable punishment is ready to fall upon them.
Ye are allowed to eat the brute cattle,e other than what ye are commanded to abstain from; except the game which ye are allowed at other times, but not while ye are on pilgrimage to Mecca; GOD ordaineth that which he pleaseth.
And the condition of the neutralisation to abstain from war, treaties of alliance, and the like, contains restrictions which do in no way destroy the full sovereignty of the neutralised State.
As far as the Law of Nations is concerned, apart from morality, there is no restriction whatever to cause a State to abstain frommaltreating to any extent such stateless individuals.
Examine, Dost thou stand in awe of sinning against God, because he hath in the Scriptures commanded thee to abstain from it?
The apostle here doth exhort the people to abstain from fornication, which, in another place, he saith, '.
For thinking it prudent to abstain from fighting, on account of the smallness of his force, he had secretly withdrawn to a country-seat, where he was immediately betrayed by his own people, and killed by Oswy.
The divine Scriptures command us to abstain from blood, from things strangled, and from fornication.
He commanded them to be pure from meats, and to abstain from whatever, according to pagan opinion, was not befitting him who had announced his purpose of leading a pure life.
On one day, the first day of the week, we assemble ourselves together, and on the days of the readings(28) we abstain from sustenance.
To honor parents, to live chaste, to abstain from murders, adulteries, and thefts is not necessary to justification; hence such things must not be taught.
If these fears act, it is commonly on those, who have but little occasion to abstain from evil; they make honest hearts tremble, but fail of effect on the perverse.
But she felt it to be her duty to abstain from rebukes.
It would be easier, and certainly much pleasanter, because she had pledged herself to abstain from talking of her grievances.
At or in the time of; during; as, on Sunday we abstain from labor.
To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from; to give up; as, to forbear the use of a word of doubdtful propriety.
To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry.
And that might be applied to him which is recorded of Socrates, that he was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those things which many are too weak to abstain from, and cannot enjoy without excess.
You sleep upon your bags, heaped up on every side, gaping over them, and are obliged to abstain from them, as if they were consecrated things, or to amuse yourself with them as you would with pictures.
I observe the precept toabstain from eating at an unseasonable time.
I observe the precept to abstain from dancing, singing and unbecoming shows.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "abstain from" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
