Bible Verses About Temptation

"So if your hand or foot becomes a snare for you, cut it off and throw it away! Better that you should be maimed or crippled and obtain eternal life than keep both hands or both feet and be thrown into everlasting fire!

And if your eye is a snare for you, gouge it out and fling it away! Better that you should be oneeyed and obtain eternal life than keep both eyes and be thrown into the fire of Gei Hinnom.

Yeshua, however, knowing their malicious intent, said, "You hypocrites! Why are you trying to trap me?

So stay alert, because you don't know on what day your Lord will come.

But you do know this: had the owner of the house known when the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and not allowed his house to be broken into.

Therefore you too must always be ready, for the Son of Man will come when you are not expecting him.

So stay alert, because you know neither the day nor the hour.

Yeshua then said to them, "Tonight you will all lose faith in me, as the Tanakh says, `I will strike the shepherd dead, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'

and he said to them, "My heart is so filled with sadness that I could die! Remain here and stay awake with me."

Going on a little farther, he fell on his face, praying, "My Father, if possible, let this cup pass from me! Yet -- not what I want, but what you want!"

He returned to the talmidim and found them sleeping. He said to Kefa, "Were you so weak that you couldn't stay awake with me for even an hour?

Stay awake, and pray that you will not be put to the test -- the spirit indeed is eager, but human nature is weak."

A second time he went off and prayed. "My Father, if this cup cannot pass away unless I drink it, let what you want be done."

and he was in the wilderness forty days being tempted by the Adversary. He was with the wild animals, and the angels took care of him.

Those alongside the path where the message is sown are people who no sooner hear it than the Adversary comes and takes away the message sown in them.

soon as some trouble or persecution arises on account of the message, they immediately fall away.

Yeshua, looking at him, felt love for him and said to him, "You're missing one thing. Go, sell whatever you own, give to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven. Then come, follow me!"

Shocked by this word, he went away sad; because he was a wealthy man.

Yeshua looked around and said to his talmidim, "How hard it is going to be for people with wealth to enter the Kingdom of God!"

The talmidim were astounded at these words; but Yeshua said to them again, "My friends, how hard it is to enter the Kingdom of God!

It's easier for a camel to pass through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God."

"At that time, if anyone says to you, `Look! Here's the Messiah!' or, `See, there he is!' -- don't believe him!

There will appear false Messiahs and false prophets performing signs and wonders for the purpose, if possible, of misleading the chosen.

Stay alert! Be on your guard! For you do not know when the time will come.

"It's like a man who travels away from home, puts his servants in charge, each with his own task, and tells the doorkeeper to stay alert.