Bible Verses About Temptation

And behold a certain lawyer stood up, tempting him and saying, Master, what must I do to possess eternal life?

And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation.

Let your loins be girt and lamps burning in your hands.

And you yourselves like to men who wait for their lord, when he shall return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open to him immediately.

Blessed are those servants whom the Lord, when he cometh, shall find watching. Amen I say to you that he will gird himself and make them sit down to meat and passing will minister unto them.

And if he shall come in the second watch or come in the third watch and find them so, blessed are those servants.

Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.

And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of this life: and that day come upon you suddenly.

For as a snare shall it come upon all that sit upon the face of the whole earth.

Watch ye, therefore, praying at all times, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are to come and to stand before the Son of man.

And Satan entered into Judas, who was surnamed Iscariot, one of the twelve.

And the Lord said: Simon, Simon, behold Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat.

But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and thou, being once converted, confirm thy brethren.

And when he was come to the place, he said to them: Pray, lest ye enter into temptation.

And he said to them: Why sleep you? Arise: pray: lest you enter into temptation.

And when supper was done (the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray him),

These things have I spoken to you things have I spoken to you that you may not be scandalized.

They will put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doth a service to God.

I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from evil.

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, so as to obey the lusts thereof.

Neither yield ye your members as instruments of iniquity unto sin: but present yourselves to God, as those that are alive from the dead; and your members as instruments of justice unto God.

For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law, but under grace.

For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death.

Who then shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation? Or distress? Or famine? Or nakedness? Or danger? Or persecution? Or the sword?

(As it is written: For thy sake, we are put to death all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.)