Bible Verses About Temptation: Resistance to temptation

and after some time his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, “Sleep with me.”

But he refused. “Look,” he said to his master’s wife, “with me here, my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has entrusted everything he owns to my care.

No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?”

Although Potiphar’s wife spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be near her.

So we prayed to our God and posted a guard against them day and night.

“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?

If I have walked in falsehood or my foot has rushed to deceit,

let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.

If my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has followed my eyes, or if impurity has stuck to my hands,

then may another eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted.

If my heart has been enticed by my neighbor’s wife, or I have lurked at his door,

then may my own wife grind grain for another, and may other men sleep with her.

For that would be a heinous crime, an iniquity to be judged.

For it is a fire that burns down to Abaddon; it would root out my entire harvest.

If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or maidservant when they made a complaint against me,

what will I do when God rises to judge? How will I answer when called to account?

Did not He who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same One form us in the womb?

If I have denied the desires of the poor or allowed the widow’s eyes to fail,

if I have eaten my morsel alone, not sharing it with the fatherless—

if I have seen one perish for lack of clothing, or a needy man without a cloak,

if his heart has not blessed me for warming him with the fleece of my sheep,

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,

then may my arm fall from my shoulder and be torn from its socket.

For calamity from God terrifies me, and His splendor I cannot overpower.

If I have put my trust in gold or called pure gold my security,