Bible Verses About Asceticism

If then you be dead with Christ from the elements of this world, why do you yet decree as though living in the world?

Touch not: taste not: handle not.

Which all are unto destruction by the very use, according to the precepts and doctrines of men.

Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in superstition and humility, and not sparing the body; not in any honour to the filling of the flesh.

Now the Spirit manifestly saith that in the last times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to spirits of error and doctrines of devils,

Speaking lies in hypocrisy and having their conscience seared,

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.

For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be rejected that is received with thanksgiving: