Bible Verses About Temptation

Then, having conceived, the desire gives birth to sin; and when sin is fully grown, it gives birth to death.

Don’t delude yourselves, my dear brothers.

Therefore, submit to God. Moreover, take a stand against the Adversary, and he will flee from you.

Rejoice in this, even though for a little while you may have to experience grief in various trials.

Even gold is tested for genuineness by fire. The purpose of these trials is so that your trust’s genuineness, which is far more valuable than perishable gold, will be judged worthy of praise, glory and honor at the revealing of Yeshua the Messiah.

The accomplishing of the goal of all things is close at hand. Therefore, keep alert and self-controlled, so that you can pray.

Dear friends, don’t regard as strange the fiery ordeal occurring among you to test you, as if something extraordinary were happening to you.

Stay sober, stay alert! Your enemy, the Adversary, stalks about like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.

Stand against him, firm in your trust, knowing that your brothers throughout the world are going through the same kinds of suffering.

So the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and how to hold the wicked until the Day of Judgment while continuing to punish them,

Mouthing grandiosities of nothingness, they play on the desires of the old nature, in order to seduce with debaucheries people who have just begun to escape from those whose way of life is wrong.

But you, dear friends, since you know this in advance, guard yourselves; so that you will not be led away by the errors of the wicked and fall from your own secure position.

because all the things of the world — the desires of the old nature, the desires of the eyes, and the pretensions of life — are not from the Father but from the world.

I have written you these things about the people who are trying to deceive you.

You, children, are from God and have overcome the false prophets, because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

Wake up, and strengthen what remains, before it dies too! For I have found what you are doing incomplete in the sight of my God.

So remember what you received and heard, and obey it, and turn from your sin! For if you don’t wake up, I will come like a thief; and you don’t know at what moment I will come upon you.

Because you did obey my message about persevering, I will keep you from the time of trial coming upon the whole world to put the people living on earth to the test.

Then I heard a loud voice in heaven saying, “Now have come God’s victory, power and kingship, and the authority of his Messiah; because the Accuser of our brothers, who accuses them day and night before God, has been thrown out!

“They defeated him because of the Lamb’s blood and because of the message of their witness. Even when facing death they did not cling to life.

The dragon was infuriated over the woman and went off to fight the rest of her children, those who obey God’s commands and bear witness to Yeshua.