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Bible Verses About Temptation: General references

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  1. James 1:12

    Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

  2. 1 Corinthians 10:13

    There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

  3. James 1:2

    My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;

  4. 1 Peter 1:6

    Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:

  5. Matthew 6:13

    And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

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  1. Proverbs 5:11–21

    11And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

    12And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

    13And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

    14I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

    15Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

    16Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.

    17Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.

    18Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

    19Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

    20And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

    21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.

  2. Proverbs 6:27–28

    27Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?

    28Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?

  3. Proverbs 7:7–18

    7And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,

    8Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,

    9In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:

    10And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.

    11(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:

    12Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

    13So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,

    14I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.

    15Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

    16I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.

    17I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

    18Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.