Bible Verses About Temptation

Behold, a certain Torah scholar stood up and tested him, saying, “Rabbi, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

Forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’”

“Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.

Be like men watching for their lord, when he returns from the marriage feast; that, when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him.

Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you, that he will dress himself, and make them recline, and will come and serve them.

They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch, and finds them so.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away.

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

For it will come like a snare on all those who dwell on the surface of all the earth.

Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

Satan entered into Judah, who was also called Iscariot, who was numbered with the twelve.

The Lord said, “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat,

but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn’t fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers.”

When he was at the place, he said to them, “Pray that you don’t enter into temptation.”

and said to them, “Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation.”

During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judah Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,

“These things have I spoken to you, so that you wouldn’t be caused to stumble.

They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.

Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.

Who shall separate us from the love of Messiah? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”