{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "G567",
  "lemma": "ἀπέχομαι",
  "transliteration": "apéchomai",
  "definition": "to hold oneself off, i.e. refrain",
  "kjv": "abstain",
  "occurrences": 6,
  "language": "Greek",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Acts 15:20",
      "text": "but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/15?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Acts 15:29",
      "text": "that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/15?v=29"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Thessalonians 4:3",
      "text": "For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-thessalonians/4?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Thessalonians 5:22",
      "text": "Abstain from every form of evil.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-thessalonians/5?v=22"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Timothy 4:3",
      "text": "forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-timothy/4?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Peter 2:11",
      "text": "Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-peter/2?v=11"
    }
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