Bible Verses about Temptation

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• No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.
  1 Corinthians 10:13reliabilityaddictiondesires
• Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
  Matthew 26:41prayerdesiresaddiction
• Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.
  James 1:12rewardlife
• Can one walk on hot coals,
  And his feet not be seared?
  Proverbs 6:28desires
• And He said, “What comes out of a man, that defiles a man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within and defile a man.”
  Mark 7:20-23sinpurificationanger
• Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone.
  James 1:13desiresunderstanding
• And do not lead us into temptation,
  But deliver us from the evil one.
  For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
  Matthew 6:13desiresevilprotection
• Then Jesus, being filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, being tempted for forty days by the devil. And in those days He ate nothing, and afterward, when they had ended, He was hungry.
  Luke 4:1-2fastingJesusdevil
• Lord, all my desire is before You;
  And my sighing is not hidden from You.
  Psalm 38:9worryingsadness
• Knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.
  James 1:3faithaddiction
• Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
  Ephesians 6:13protectionevildevil
• Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted.
  Galatians 6:1sindesiresconversion
• For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.
  Hebrews 4:15sincompassionweakness
• Then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment.
  2 Peter 2:9judgmentpunishmentsalvation
• Now he who received seed among the thorns is he who hears the word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
  Matthew 13:22Word of Godworryingmoney
• But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.
  Romans 13:14desiresaddictionJesus
• For You, O God, have tested us;
  You have refined us as silver is refined.
  Psalm 66:10sufferingpurification
• Flee also youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
  2 Timothy 2:22desiresevilrighteousness
• He who covers his sins will not prosper,
  But whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.
  Proverbs 28:13sinconfessionmercy