Bible Verses About Temptation

And lo, a certain lawyer stood up, trying him, and saying, `Teacher, what having done, life age-during shall I inherit?'

and forgive us our sins, for also we ourselves forgive every one indebted to us; and mayest Thou not bring us into temptation; but do Thou deliver us from the evil.'

`Let your loins be girded, and the lamps burning,

and ye like to men waiting for their lord, when he shall return out of the wedding feasts, that he having come and knocked, immediately they may open to him.

`Happy those servants, whom the lord, having come, shall find watching; verily I say to you, that he will gird himself, and will cause them to recline (at meat), and having come near, will minister to them;

and if he may come in the second watch, and in the third watch he may come, and may find it so, happy are those servants.

the heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words may not pass away.

`And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you,

for as a snare it shall come on all those dwelling on the face of all the land,

watch ye, then, in every season, praying that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are about to come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.'

And the Adversary entered into Judas, who is surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve,

And the Lord said, `Simon, Simon, lo, the Adversary did ask you for himself to sift as the wheat,

and I besought for thee, that thy faith may not fail; and thou, when thou didst turn, strengthen thy brethren.'

and having come to the place, he said to them, `Pray ye not to enter into temptation.'

and he said to them, `Why do ye sleep? having risen, pray that ye may not enter into temptation.'

And supper being come, the devil already having put it into the heart of Judas of Simon, Iscariot, that he may deliver him up,

`These things I have spoken to you, that ye may not be stumbled,

out of the synagogues they will put you; but an hour doth come, that every one who hath killed you, may think to offer service unto God;

I do not ask that Thou mayest take them out of the world, but that Thou mayest keep them out of the evil.

Let not then the sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its desires;

neither present ye your members instruments of unrighteousness to the sin, but present yourselves to God as living out of the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God;

for sin over you shall not have lordship, for ye are not under law, but under grace.

for when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins, that are through the law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to the death;

Who shall separate us from the love of the Christ? tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

(according as it hath been written--`For Thy sake we are put to death all the day long, we were reckoned as sheep of slaughter,')