Overcoming 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.

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

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

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.

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

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

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

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

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.

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

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.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

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

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.

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

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.’”

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.

Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand.

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

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

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

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

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

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

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,

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

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

Or can one walk on hot coals, and his feet not be scorched?

choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time;

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

Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.

But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and gentleness.

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.

“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

You who love Yahweh, hate evil. He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

Don’t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

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

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

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

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.

For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

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

He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man. — read the full passage →

Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, — read the full passage →

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness — read the full passage →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

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 →

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.

Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure. — read the full passage →

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

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

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. — read the full passage →

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.

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

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

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

and all ate the same spiritual food;

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. — read the full passage →

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

Don’t enter into the path of the wicked. Don’t walk in the way of evil men. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

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.

May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:

You lust, and don’t have. You kill, covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.