Bible Verses About Temptation

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:

But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.

Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.

For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.

But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.

For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.

And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.

Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.

And when he was at the place, he said unto them, Pray that ye enter not into temptation.

Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:

And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.

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

But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;

All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

And others, tempting him, sought of him a sign from heaven.

And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season.

Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.

But he perceived their craftiness, and said unto them, Why tempt ye me?

And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

And said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.

Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.

Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said, I will entice him. And the Lord said unto him, Wherewith?

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?