Bible Verses About Temptation: Resistance to temptation

In time, the day came when his master's wife took a look at Yosef and said, "Sleep with me!"

But he refused, saying to his master's wife, "Look, because my master has me, he doesn't know what's going on in this house. He has put all his possessions in my charge.

In this house I am his equal; he hasn't withheld anything from me except yourself, because you are his wife. How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?"

But she kept pressing him, day after day. Nevertheless, he didn't listen to her; he refused to sleep with her or even be with her.

However, we prayed to our God and, because of them, organized a watch against them day and night.

"I made a covenant with my eyes not to let them lust after any girl.

"If I have gone along with falsehood, if my feet have hurried to deceit;

then let me be weighed on an honest scale, so that God will know my integrity.

"If my steps have wandered from the way, if my heart has followed my eyes, if the least dirt has stuck to my hands;

then let me sow and someone else eat, let what grows from my fields be uprooted.

"If my heart has been enticed toward a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door;

then let my wife grind for another man, and let others kneel on her.

For that would be a heinous act, a criminal offense,

a fire that would burn to the depths of Abaddon, uprooting all I produce.

"If I ever rejected my slave or slave-girl's cause, when they brought legal action against me;

then what would I do if God stood up? Were he to intervene, what answer could I give?

Didn't he who made me in the womb make them too? Didn't the same one shape us both before our birth?

"If I held back anything needed by the poor or made a widow's eye grow dim [with tears],

or ate my portion of food by myself, without letting the orphan eat any of it

or if I saw a traveler needing clothing, someone in need who had no covering,

who didn't bless me from his heart for being warmed with the fleece from my sheep,

or if I lifted my hand against an orphan, knowing that no one would dare charge me in court;

then let my arm fall from its socket, and let my forearm be broken at the elbow!

For calamity from God has always terrified me; before his majesty I could never do a thing [like that].

"If I made gold my hope, if I said to fine gold, 'You are my security,'