Bible Verses About Temptation

watch ye, therefore, for ye have not known when the lord of the house doth come, at even, or at midnight, or at cock-crowing, or at the morning;

lest, having come suddenly, he may find you sleeping;

and what I say to you, I say to all, Watch.'

And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith to Peter, `Simon, thou dost sleep! thou wast not able to watch one hour!

Watch ye and pray, that ye may not enter into temptation; the spirit indeed is forward, but the flesh weak.'

and having seen Peter warming himself, having looked on him, she said, `And thou wast with Jesus of Nazareth!'

and he denied, saying, `I have not known him , neither do I understand what thou sayest;' and he went forth without to the porch, and a cock crew.

And the maid having seen him again, began to say to those standing near--`This is of them;'

and he was again denying. And after a little again, those standing near said to Peter, `Truly thou art of them, for thou also art a Galilean, and thy speech is alike;'

and he began to anathematize, and to swear--`I have not known this man of whom ye speak;'

And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, turned back from the Jordan, and was brought in the Spirit to the wilderness,

forty days being tempted by the Devil, and he did not eat anything in those days, and they having been ended, he afterward hungered,

and the Devil said to him, `If Son thou art of God, speak to this stone that it may become bread.'

And Jesus answered him, saying, `It hath been written, that, not on bread only shall man live, but on every saying of God.'

And the Devil having brought him up to an high mountain, shewed to him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time,

and the Devil said to him, `To thee I will give all this authority, and their glory, because to me it hath been delivered, and to whomsoever I will, I do give it;

thou, then, if thou mayest bow before me--all shall be thine.'

And Jesus answering him said, `Get thee behind me, Adversary, for it hath been written, Thou shalt bow before the Lord thy God, and Him only thou shalt serve.'

And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, `If the Son thou art of God, cast thyself down hence,

for it hath been written--To His messengers He will give charge concerning thee, to guard over thee,

and--On hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou mayest dash against a stone thy foot.'

And Jesus answering said to him--`It hath been said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.'

And having ended all temptation, the Devil departed from him till a convenient season.

`And those upon the rock: They who, when they may hear, with joy do receive the word, and these have no root, who for a time believe, and in time of temptation fall away.

`And that which fell to the thorns: These are they who have heard, and going forth, through anxieties, and riches, and pleasures of life, are choked, and bear not to completion.