Bible Verses About Temptation

With Thy counsel Thou dost lead me, And after honour dost receive me.

Whom have I in the heavens? And with Thee none I have desired in earth.

Consumed hath been my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart and my portion is God to the age.

Unless Jehovah were a help to me, My soul had almost inhabited silence.

If I have said, `My foot hath slipped,' Thy kindness, O Jehovah, supporteth me.

From every evil path I restrained my feet, So that I keep Thy word.

The wicked have laid a snare for me, And from thy precepts I wandered not.

Abundant peace have those loving Thy law, And they have no stumbling-block.

My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing.

If they say, `Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,

We swallow them as Sheol--alive, And whole--as those going down to the pit,

Every precious substance we find, We fill our houses with spoil,

Thy lot thou dost cast among us, One purse is--to all of us.'

My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path,

For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood.

Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird.

For wisdom cometh into thy heart, And knowledge to thy soul is pleasant,

Thoughtfulness doth watch over thee, Understanding doth keep thee,

To deliver thee from an evil way, From any speaking froward things,

To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings,

Into the path of the wicked enter not, And be not happy in a way of evil doers.

Avoid it, pass not over into it, Turn aside from it, and pass on.

The path of life--lest thou ponder, Moved have her paths--thou knowest not.

And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And turn not from sayings of my mouth.

Keep far from off her thy way, And come not near unto the opening of her house,