Bible Verses About Temptation

You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

Whom do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you.

My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul would have soon lived in silence.

When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, LORD, held me up.

I have kept my feet from every evil way, that I might observe your word.

The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts.

Those who love your Torah have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.

My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent.

If they say, “Come with us, Let’s lay in wait for blood; let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.

We’ll find all valuable wealth. We’ll fill our houses with plunder.

You shall cast your lot among us. We’ll all have one purse.”

My son, don’t walk on the path with them. Keep your foot from their path,

for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird:

For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,

to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things;

To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;

Don’t enter into the path of the wicked. Don’t walk in the way of evil men.

Avoid it, and don’t pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.

She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it.

Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don’t depart from the words of my mouth.

Remove your way far from her. Don’t come near the door of her house,