Bible Verses About Temptation

Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.

My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.

When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.

¶ I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.

The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.

¶ Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.

My son, if sinners shall entice thee, consent not to them.

If they shall say: Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us hide snares for the innocent without cause:

Let us swallow him up alive like hell, and whole as one that goeth down into the pit.

We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoils.

Cast in thy lot with us, let us all have one purse.

My son, walk not thou with them, restrain thy foot from their paths.

For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

But a net is spread in vain before the eyes of them that have wings.

If wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge please thy soul:

Counsel shall keep thee, and prudence shall preserve thee,

That thou mayst be delivered from the evil way, and from the man that speaketh perverse things:

That thou mayst be delivered from the strange woman, and from the stranger, who softeneth her words;

Be not delighted in the paths of the wicked, neither let the way of evil men please thee.

Flee from it, pass not by it: go aside, and forsake it.

They walk not by the path of life, her steps are wandering, and unaccountable.

Now, therefore, my son, hear me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the doors of her house.