Bible Verses About Temptation

Then let my wife grind unto another, And let others bow down upon her.

For that were a heinous crime; Yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges:

For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, And would root out all mine increase.

If I have despised the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, When they contended with me;

What then shall I do when God riseth up? And when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

Did not he that made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

If I have withheld the poor fromtheirdesire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof

If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering;

If his loins have not blessed me, And if he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the gate:

Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, And mine arm be broken from the bone.

For calamity from God is a terror to me, And by reason of his majesty I can do nothing.

If I have made gold my hope, And have said to the fine gold, Thou artmy confidence;

If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, And because my hand had gotten much;

If I have beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness,

And my heart hath been secretly enticed, And my mouth hath kissed my hand:

This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges; For I should have denied the God that is above.

If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, Or lifted up myself when evil found him

(Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin By asking his life with a curse);

If the men of my tent have not said, Who can find one that hath not been filled with his meat?

(The sojourner hath not lodged in the street; But I have opened my doors to the traveller);

If like Adam I have covered my transgressions, By hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,

Because I feared the great multitude, And the contempt of families terrified me, So that I kept silence, and went not out of the door—

If my land crieth out against me, And the furrows thereof weep together;