Bible Verses About Temptation

You are to burn up completely the carved statues of their gods. Don't be greedy for the silver or gold on them; don't take it with you, or you will be trapped by it; for it is abhorrent to ADONAI your God.

"Be careful not to forget ADONAI your God by not obeying his mitzvot, rulings and regulations that I am giving you today.

Otherwise, after you have eaten and are satisfied, built fine houses and lived in them,

and increased your herds, flocks, silver, gold and everything else you own,

you will become proud-hearted. Forgetting ADONAI your God - who brought you out of the land of Egypt, where you lived as slaves;

you will think to yourself, 'My own power and the strength of my own hand have gotten me this wealth.'

No, you are to remember ADONAI your God, because it is he who is giving you the power to get wealth, in order to confirm his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as is happening even today.

you are not to listen to what that prophet or dreamer says. For ADONAI your God is testing you, in order to find out whether you really do love ADONAI your God with all your heart and being.

when I saw there with the spoil a beautiful robe from Shin'ar, five pounds of silver shekels and a one-and-a-quarter-pound wedge of gold, I really wanted them. So I took them. You will find them hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath."

Once, after his afternoon nap, David got up from his bed and went strolling on the roof of the king's palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing, who was very beautiful.

it was the punishment for the sins Yarov'am had committed and through which he had made Isra'el sin, thereby angering ADONAI the God of Isra'el.

The Adversary [Hebrew: Satan] now rose up against Isra'el and incited David to take a census of Isra'el.

It was this same Hizkiyahu who blocked the upper outlet of the Gichon Spring and diverted the water straight down on the west side of the City of David. Hizkiyahu succeeded in all that he did.

However, in the matter of the ambassadors from the princes of Bavel, who sent to him to learn of the marvel that had taken place in the land, God left him by himself, in order to test him, so that he might know everything that was in his heart.

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

The Adversary answered ADONAI, "Is it for nothing that Iyov fears God?

You've put a protective hedge around him, his house and everything he has. You've prospered his work, and his livestock are spread out all over the land.

But if you reach out your hand and touch whatever he has, without doubt he'll curse you to your face!"

ADONAI said to the Adversary, "Here! Everything he has is in your hands, except that you are not to lay a finger on his person." Then the Adversary went out from the presence of ADONAI.

"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;