Bible Verses About Temptation

An expert in Torah stood up to try and trap him by asking, “Rabbi, what should I do to obtain eternal life?”

Forgive us our sins, for we too forgive everyone who has wronged us. And do not lead us to hard testing.’”

“Be dressed for action and have your lamps lit,

like people waiting for their master’s return after a wedding feast; so that when he comes and knocks, they will open the door for him without delay.

Happy the slaves whom the master finds alert when he comes! Yes! I tell you he will put on his work clothes, seat them at the table, and come serve them himself!

Whether it is late at night or early in the morning, if this is how he finds them, those slaves are happy.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will certainly not pass away.

“But keep watch on yourselves, or your hearts will become dulled by carousing, drunkenness and the worries of everyday living, and that Day will be sprung upon you suddenly like a trap!

For it will close in on everyone, no matter where they live, throughout the whole world.

Stay alert, always praying that you will have the strength to escape all the things that will happen and to stand in the presence of the Son of Man.”

At this point the Adversary went into Y’hudah from K’riot, who was one of the Twelve.

“Shim‘on, Shim‘on, listen! The Adversary demanded to have you people for himself, to sift you like wheat!

But I prayed for you, Shim‘on, that your trust might not fail. And you, once you have turned back in repentance, strengthen your brothers!”

When he arrived, he said to them, “Pray that you won’t be put to the test.”

He said to them, “Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray that you won’t be put to the test!”

They were at supper, and the Adversary had already put the desire to betray him into the heart of Y’hudah Ben-Shim‘on from K’riot.

“I have told you these things so that you won’t be caught by surprise.

They will ban you from the synagogue; in fact, the time will come when anyone who kills you will think he is serving God!

I don’t ask you to take them out of the world, but to protect them from the Evil One.

Therefore, do not let sin rule in your mortal bodies, so that it makes you obey its desires;

and do not offer any part of yourselves to sin as an instrument for wickedness. On the contrary, offer yourselves to God as people alive from the dead, and your various parts to God as instruments for righteousness.

For sin will not have authority over you; because you are not under legalism but under grace.

For when we were living according to our old nature, the passions connected with sins worked through the Torah in our various parts, with the result that we bore fruit for death.

Who will separate us from the love of the Messiah? Trouble? Hardship? Persecution? Hunger? Poverty? Danger? War?

As the Tanakh puts it, “For your sake we are being put to death all day long, we are considered sheep to be slaughtered.”