Bible Verses About Temptation

One day an expert in the law stood up to test Him. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins against us. And lead us not into temptation.’”

Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning.

Then you will be like servants waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks, they can open the door for him at once.

Blessed are those servants whom the master finds on watch when he returns. Truly I tell you, he will dress himself to serve and will have them recline at the table, and he himself will come and wait on them.

Even if he comes in the second or third watch of the night and finds them alert, those servants will be blessed.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.

But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.

For it will come upon all who dwell on the face of all the earth.

So keep watch at all times, and pray that you may have the strength to escape all that is about to happen and to stand before the Son of Man.”

Then Satan entered Judas Iscariot, who was one of the Twelve.

Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift each of you like wheat.

But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith will not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”

When He came to the place, He told them, “Pray that you will not enter into temptation.”

“Why are you sleeping?” He asked. “Get up and pray so that you will not enter into temptation.”

The evening meal was underway, and the devil had already put into the heart of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus.

“I have told you these things so that you will not fall away.

They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.

I am not asking that You take them out of the world, but that You keep them from the evil one.

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires.

Do not present the parts of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and present the parts of your body to Him as instruments of righteousness.

For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.

For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”