Bible Verses About Temptation

You guide me with Your counsel, and later receive me in glory.

Whom have I in heaven but You? And on earth I desire no one besides You.

My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Unless the LORD had been my helper, I would soon have dwelt in the abode of silence.

If I say, “My foot is slipping,” Your loving devotion, O LORD, supports me.

I have kept my feet from every evil path, that I may keep Your word.

The wicked have set a snare for me, but I have not strayed from Your precepts.

Abundant peace belongs to those who love Your law; nothing can make them stumble.

My son, if sinners entice you, do not yield to them.

If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,

let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit.

We will find all manner of precious goods; we will fill our houses with plunder.

Throw in your lot with us; let us all share one purse”—

my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon their path.

For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.

How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!

For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul.

Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you,

to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity,

It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words

Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evildoers.

Avoid it; do not travel on it. Turn from it and pass on by.

She does not consider the path of life; she does not know that her ways are unstable.

So now, my sons, listen to me, and do not turn aside from the words of my mouth.

Keep your path far from her; do not go near the door of her house,