# G567 ἀπέχομαι

ἀπέχομαι (apéchomai), Strong’s G567: to hold oneself off, i.e. refrain KJV: abstain. Occurs 6 times.

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*apéchomai* — to hold oneself off, i.e. refrain

KJV: abstain

Occurs 6 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Acts 15:20](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/15?v=20) — but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is…
- [Acts 15:29](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/15?v=29) — that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from…
- [1 Thessalonians 4:3](https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-thessalonians/4?v=3) — For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
- [1 Thessalonians 5:22](https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-thessalonians/5?v=22) — Abstain from every form of evil.
- [1 Timothy 4:3](https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-timothy/4?v=3) — forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those…
- [1 Peter 2:11](https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-peter/2?v=11) — Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,