100 Bible Verses About Temptation

Bible verses about Temptation

Understanding temptation through scripture is crucial for spiritual growth. The Bible offers profound insights into the nature of temptation, its sources, and, most importantly, the path to overcoming it. By studying these verses, we gain wisdom in recognizing temptation's subtle disguises and strength in resisting its allure. Scripture illuminates God's promise of provision and protection, reminding us that we are not alone in our struggles. It equips us with the spiritual armor needed to stand firm in our faith, fostering resilience and a deeper reliance on God's unwavering love and guidance. Embrace these verses as a source of hope and a roadmap to victory over temptation.

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John 14:12 (KJV)

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.

Overcoming Temptation: Bible Verses for Strength

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

John 3:16NIV

Did not Moses give you the law, and [yet] none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?

John 7:19WEB

Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

Colossians 4:6KJV

And it came to pass in Iconium, that they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke, that a great multitude both of the Jews, and also of the Greeks, believed.

Acts 14:1WEB

And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee, thou shalt smite them [and] utterly destroy them, thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them:

Deuteronomy 7:2WEB

The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

1 Corinthians 7:4WEB

And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bond-man in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing this day.

Deuteronomy 15:15WEB

And He raiseth up a testimony in Jacob, And a law hath placed in Israel, That He commanded our fathers, To make them known to their sons.

Psalms 78:5YLT

And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.

2 Chronicles 20:20WEB

And thou shalt make a mercy-seat [of] pure gold: two cubits and a half [shall be] its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.

Exodus 25:17WEB

Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken to his voice:

Deuteronomy 26:17WEB

Therefore, as ye abound in every [thing], [in] faith and utterance, and knowledge, and [in] all diligence, and [in] your love to us, [see] that ye abound in this grace also.

2 Corinthians 8:7WEB

And thou shalt put the mercy-seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.

Exodus 25:21WEB

Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us; for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

Psalms 123:3WEB

because the mind of the flesh is enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,

Romans 8:7YLT

And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice.

2 Chronicles 7:12WEB

On a high mountain get thee up, O Zion, Proclaiming tidings, Lift up with power thy voice, O Jerusalem, proclaiming tidings, Lift up, fear not, say to cities of Judah, Lo, your God.'

Isaiah 40:9YLT

And the rest of the matters of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah?

2 Kings 23:28YLT

and thou shalt love the Lord thy God out of all thy heart, and out of thy soul, and out of all thine understanding, and out of all thy strength--this is the first command;

Mark 12:30YLT

And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made for themselves molten images, [even] two calves, and made a grove, and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

2 Kings 17:16WEB

Day to day uttereth speech, and night to night showeth knowledge.

Psalms 19:2WEB

Hast thou not procured this to thyself in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?

Jeremiah 2:17WEB

Whom the heaven must receive, until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets, since the world began.

Acts 3:21WEB

So do all Thine enemies perish, O Jehovah, And those loving Him are As the going out of the sun in its might!' and the land resteth forty years.

Judges 5:31YLT

and may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who did love us, and did give comfort age-during, and good hope in grace,

2 Thessalonians 2:16YLT

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments; and his commandments are not grievous.

1 John 5:3WEB

Great peace have they who love thy law: and nothing shall cause them to stumble.

Psalms 119:165WEB

Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.

Psalms 4:1KJV

And Moses sendeth his father-in-law away, and he goeth away unto his own land.

Exodus 18:27YLT

And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his might with which he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

2 Kings 13:12WEB

He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God.

Matthew 27:43KJV

And it came to pass when Israel was strong, that they subjected the Canaanites to tribute, and did not utterly expel them.

Judges 1:28WEB

Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner-stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.

1 Peter 2:6WEB

Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:

Proverbs 24:15KJV

And Jesus said to the centurion, Go, and as thou didst believe let it be to thee;' and his young man was healed in that hour.

Matthew 8:13YLT

For, if for intelligence thou callest, For understanding givest forth thy voice,

Proverbs 2:3YLT

And He putteth in my mouth a new song, Praise to our God.' Many do see and fear, and trust in Jehovah.

Psalms 40:3YLT

And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all [that] he had he put into his hand.

Genesis 39:4WEB

Is it lawful for us to give tribute to Cesar, or not?

Luke 20:22WEB

And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plow-shares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

Micah 4:3WEB

And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

1 Timothy 1:14WEB

And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.

Matthew 24:22KJV

Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.

Jeremiah 6:16KJV

He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.

Proverbs 28:25WEB

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

John 14:1WEB

And thou shalt put it before the vail that [is] by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy-seat that [is] over the testimony, where I will meet with thee.

Exodus 30:6WEB

I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother; but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.

2 Corinthians 2:13WEB

He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and on earth, who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.

Daniel 6:27WEB

(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

Romans 2:13WEB

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

Ephesians 3:20KJV

for six days hath Jehovah made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and resteth in the seventh day; therefore hath Jehovah blessed the Sabbath-day, and doth sanctify it.

Exodus 20:11YLT

For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen [it], repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.

Matthew 21:32WEB

And I hear the one clothed in linen, who is upon the waters of the flood, and he doth lift up his right hand and his left unto the heavens, and sweareth by Him who is living to the age, that, After a time, times, and a half, and at the completion of the scattering of the power of the holy people, finished are all these.'

Daniel 12:7YLT

In the fear of the LORD [is] strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.

Proverbs 14:26WEB

A Song [and] Psalm for the sons of Korah. Great [is] the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, [in] the mountain of his holiness.

Psalms 48:1WEB

Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.

Proverbs 3:29KJV

and their sons he hath not put to death, but did as is written in the law, in the book of Moses, whom Jehovah commanded, saying, Fathers do not die for sons, and sons die not for fathers, but each for his own sin they die.'

2 Chronicles 25:4YLT

For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

Proverbs 9:14KJV

Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

Psalms 146:3KJV

Believe me that I [am] in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.

John 14:11WEB

I also to the house on which My name is called, In which ye are trusting, And to the place that I gave to you, and to your fathers, Have done, as I have done to Shiloh.

Jeremiah 7:14YLT

Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brick-kiln.

Nahum 3:14WEB

But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

Acts 8:12KJV

The God of my mercy will succor me: God will let me see [my desire] upon my enemies.

Psalms 59:10WEB

So the people rested on the seventh day.

Exodus 16:30WEB

To thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God [is] my defense, [and] the God of my mercy.

Psalms 59:17WEB

And the Redeemer will come to Zion, and to them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.

Isaiah 59:20WEB

And the teachers of the people give understanding to many; and they have stumbled by sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil--days.

Daniel 11:33YLT

For God hath not called us to uncleanness, but to holiness.

1 Thessalonians 4:7WEB

And the cities which the Philistines have taken from Israel are restored to Israel--from Ekron even unto Gath--and their border hath Israel delivered out of the hand of the Philistines; and there is peace between Israel and the Amorite.

1 Samuel 7:14YLT

And fire hath gone out of a rod of her branches, [which] hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod [to be] a scepter to rule. This [is] a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

Ezekiel 19:14WEB

but, on the contrary, having seen that I have been entrusted with the good news of the uncircumcision, as Peter with that of the circumcision,

Galatians 2:7YLT

And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works to the end, to him will I give power over the nations:

Revelation 2:26WEB

[And] having despoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

Colossians 2:15WEB

If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;

1 Kings 8:46KJV

How much better [is it] to get wisdom than gold? and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver?

Proverbs 16:16WEB

Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob’s tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof.

Jeremiah 30:18KJV

For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.

2 Corinthians 10:10KJV

And at the end of years they do join themselves together, and a daughter of the king of the south doth come in unto the king of the north to do upright things; and she doth not retain the power of the arm; and he doth not stand, nor his arm; and she is given up, she, and those bringing her in, and her child, and he who is strengthening her in these times.

Daniel 11:6YLT

For thou [art] my hope, O Lord GOD: [thou art] my trust from my youth.

Psalms 71:5WEB

and Jehovah saith, Lo, the people is one, and one pronunciation is to them all, and this it hath dreamed of doing; and now, nothing is restrained from them of that which they have purposed to do.

Genesis 11:6YLT

The ark of the testimony, and its staffs, and the mercy-seat,

Exodus 39:35WEB

Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it will be even as it was told to me.

Acts 27:25WEB

The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

John 3:8KJV

In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.

Isaiah 17:9KJV

Not for [any] injustice in my hands: also my prayer [is] pure.

Job 16:17WEB

Confess [your] faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of the righteous man availeth much.

James 5:16WEB

And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, [even] ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.

Deuteronomy 4:13WEB

Then Thou desirest sacrifices of righteousness, Burnt-offering, and whole burnt-offering, Then they offer bullocks on thine altar!

Psalms 51:19YLT

If indeed, then, perfection were through the Levitical priesthood--for the people under it had received law--what further need, according to the order of Melchisedek, for another priest to arise, and not to be called according to the order of Aaron?

Hebrews 7:11YLT

and Jesus himself was not trusting himself to them, because of his knowing all men ,

John 2:24YLT

It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write to thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,

Luke 1:3WEB

These [are] the statutes, and judgments, and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.

Leviticus 26:46WEB

And madest known to them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:

Nehemiah 9:14WEB

Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.

Proverbs 23:3KJV

And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.

John 5:38WEB

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.

John 14:12KJV

Afterwards, as they are reclining (at meat), he was manifested to the eleven, and did reproach their unbelief and stiffness of heart, because they believed not those having seen him being raised;

Mark 16:14YLT

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

John 1:12KJV

And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his clothes.

2 Chronicles 34:19WEB

The Bible offers profound insight into the nature of temptation, its pervasiveness, and the path to overcoming it. Through verses highlighting Jesus' own trials, the warnings against worldly desires, and the promise of God's support, we gain a comprehensive understanding of this universal struggle. These scriptures remind us that temptation is not sin, but yielding to it is. They emphasize the importance of vigilance, prayer, and reliance on God's strength to resist. Reflecting on these verses can empower us to identify our weaknesses, develop coping mechanisms, and seek refuge in the promises of scripture. By actively engaging with these teachings, we can cultivate resilience, strengthen our faith, and ultimately live lives that are pleasing to God and resistant to the allure of temptation.