Bible Verses about Temptation

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• No testing has overtaken you that is not common to everyone. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tested beyond your strength, but with the testing he will also provide the way out so that you may be able to endure it.
  1 Corinthians 10:13reliabilityaddictiondesires
• Stay awake and pray that you may not come into the time of trial; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
  Matthew 26:41prayerdesiresaddiction
• Blessed is anyone who endures temptation. Such a one has stood the test and will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.
  James 1:12rewardlife
• Or can one walk on hot coals
  without scorching the feet?
  Proverbs 6:28desires
• And he said, “It is what comes out of a person that defiles. For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come: fornication, theft, murder, adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, folly. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”
  Mark 7:20-23sinpurificationanger
• No one, when tempted, should say, “I am being tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil and he himself tempts no one.
  James 1:13desiresunderstanding
• And do not bring us to the time of trial,
  but rescue us from the evil one.
  Matthew 6:13desiresevilprotection
• Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing at all during those days, and when they were over, he was famished.
  Luke 4:1-2fastingJesusdevil
• O Lord, all my longing is known to you;
  my sighing is not hidden from you.
  Psalm 38:9worryingsadness
• Because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
  James 1:3faithaddiction
• Therefore take up the whole armor of God, so that you may be able to withstand on that evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm.
  Ephesians 6:13protectionevildevil
• My friends, if anyone is detected in a transgression, you who have received the Spirit should restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness. Take care that you yourselves are not tempted.
  Galatians 6:1sindesiresconversion
• For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who in every respect has been tested as we are, yet without sin.
  Hebrews 4:15sincompassionweakness
• Then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trial, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment.
  2 Peter 2:9judgmentpunishmentsalvation
• As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the lure of wealth choke the word, and it yields nothing.
  Matthew 13:22Word of Godworryingmoney
• Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.
  Romans 13:14desiresaddictionJesus
• For you, O God, have tested us;
  you have tried us as silver is tried.
  Psalm 66:10sufferingpurification
• Shun youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
  2 Timothy 2:22desiresevilrighteousness
• No one who conceals transgressions will prosper,
  but one who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.
  Proverbs 28:13sinconfessionmercy