Falling Into Temptation

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. — read the full passage →

But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him. — read the full passage →

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might. — read the full passage →

Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen. ’

If you love me, keep my commandments.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us. — read the full passage →

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

and he said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.”

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. — read the full passage →

Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.

and said to them, “Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation.”

for a righteous man falls seven times, and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

When he was at the place, he said to them, “Pray that you don’t enter into temptation.”

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

Forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’”

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,

Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Don’t boast about tomorrow; for you don’t know what a day may bring. — read the full passage →

I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me,Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’”

Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ. — read the full passage →

Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives? — read the full passage →

Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.

When Jesus had finished all these words, he said to his disciples, — read the full passage →

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. — read the full passage →

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

You shall observe to do all the commandments which I command you this day, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers. — read the full passage →

Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought him down there. — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith;

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him; — read the full passage →

who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — read the full passage →

Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision? — read the full passage →

He entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there who had his hand withered. — read the full passage →

“Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy, — read the full passage →

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.

It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. — read the full passage →

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

When the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from him until another time.

Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’”

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

Hear my prayer, Yahweh. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me. — read the full passage →

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me. — read the full passage →

The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset. — read the full passage →

The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork. — read the full passage →

Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, — read the full passage →

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, — read the full passage →

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh. — read the full passage →

That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn’t despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh? — read the full passage →

Whoever doesn’t receive you, nor hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake off the dust from your feet.

Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’” — read the full passage →

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue; — read the full passage →

Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them; and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit.