Bible Verses About Temptation

afterward the desire having conceived, doth give birth to sin, and the sin having been perfected, doth bring forth death.

Be not led astray, my brethren beloved;

be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;

in which ye are glad, a little now, if it be necessary, being made to sorrow in manifold trials,

that the proof of your faith--much more precious than of gold that is perishing, and through fire being approved--may be found to praise, and honour, and glory, in the revelation of Jesus Christ,

And of all things the end hath come nigh; be sober-minded, then, and watch unto the prayers,

Beloved, think it not strange at the fiery suffering among you that is coming to try you, as if a strange thing were happening to you,

Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,

whom resist, stedfast in the faith, having known the same sufferings to your brotherhood in the world to be accomplished.

The Lord hath known to rescue pious ones out of temptation, and unrighteous ones to a day of judgment, being punished, to keep,

for overswellings of vanity speaking, they do entice in desires of the flesh--lasciviousnesses, those who had truly escaped from those conducting themselves in error,

Ye, then, beloved, knowing before, take heed, lest, together with the error of the impious being led away, ye may fall from your own stedfastness,

because all that is in the world--the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life--is not of the Father, but of the world,

These things I did write to you concerning those leading you astray;

Ye--of God ye are, little children, and ye have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you, than he who is in the world.

become watching, and strengthen the rest of the things that are about to die, for I have not found thy works fulfilled before God.

`Remember, then, how thou hast received, and heard, and be keeping, and reform: if, then, thou mayest not watch, I will come upon thee as a thief, and thou mayest not know what hour I will come upon thee.

`Because thou didst keep the word of my endurance, I also will keep thee from the hour of the trial that is about to come upon all the world, to try those dwelling upon the earth.

And I heard a great voice saying in the heaven, `Now did come the salvation, and the power, and the reign, of our God, and the authority of His Christ, because cast down was the accuser of our brethren, who is accusing them before our God day and night;

and they did overcome him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life--unto death;

and the dragon was angry against the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, those keeping the commands of God, and having the testimony of Jesus Christ.