Bible Verses About Temptation

Thou wilt guide me with thy counsel, And afterward receive me to glory.

Whom have I in heavenbut thee? And there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee.

My flesh and my heart faileth; ButGod is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever.

Unless Jehovah had been my help, My soul had soon dwelt in silence.

When I said, My foot slippeth; Thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, held me up.

I have refrained my feet from every evil way, That I might observe thy word.

The wicked have laid a snare for me; Yet have I not gone astray from thy precepts.

Great peace have they that love thy law; And they have no occasion of stumbling.

My son, if sinners entice thee, Consent thou not.

If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;

Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit;

We shall find all precious substance; We shall fill our houses with spoil;

Thou shalt cast thy lot among us; We will all have one purse:

My son, walk not thou in the way with them; Refrain thy foot from their path:

For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood.

For in vain is the net spread In the sight of any bird:

For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, And knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul;

Discretion shall watch over thee; Understanding shall keep thee:

To deliver thee from the way of evil, From the men that speak perverse things;

To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;

Enter not into the path of the wicked, And walk not in the way of evil men.

Avoid it, pass not by it; Turn from it, and pass on.

So that she findeth not the level path of life: Her ways are unstable, andshe knoweth it not.

Now therefore, mysons, hearken unto me, And depart not from the words of my mouth.

Remove thy way far from her, And come not nigh the door of her house;