There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Parallel translations
- WEB No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
- BSB No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.
- NKJV No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.
- NASB No temptation has overtaken you except something common to mankind; and God is faithful, so He will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it.
- NLT The temptations in your life are no different from what others experience. And God is faithful. He will not allow the temptation to be more than you can stand. When you are tempted, he will show you a way out so that you can endure.
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Quick answer
No temptation is beyond what others face, and God faithfully limits it and provides a way of escape. Believers can endure temptation by trusting his faithfulness.
Overview
After warning against presumption, Paul offers comfort: temptation is common to humanity, and God's faithfulness ensures it will never exceed the endurance he supplies. The 'way of escape' is given so that believers can endure, not necessarily avoid, the trial. This verse anchors Christian hope in God's character rather than human strength, pointing to the grace by which Christ enables his people to stand.
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- 2 Pet 2:9The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
- 2 Tim 4:18And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
- 2 Th 3:3But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.
- 1 Pet 5:8–9Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
- Heb 12:4Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
- 1 Th 5:24Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.
- Rom 8:28–39And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
- 2 Cor 12:8–10For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.
- Eph 6:12–13For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
- Luke 22:46And said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.
- Jer 29:11For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
- Dan 3:17If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.
- Deut 7:9Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
- Lam 3:23They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
- Rev 3:10Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
- Jas 5:10–11Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
- Rev 2:10Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
- 2 Cor 1:10Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;
- John 10:28–30And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
- 1 Pet 4:19Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
- 1 Jn 1:9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
- 2 Tim 2:11–13It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:
- Heb 11:11Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
- Heb 10:23Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
- 1 Cor 1:9God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
- Luke 22:31–32And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:
- Luke 11:4And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.
- Ps 124:7Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
- Ps 125:3For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.
- Ps 89:33Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
- 1 Pet 1:5–7Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
- Exod 3:17And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.
- Matt 24:21–24For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
- Heb 11:35–38Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
- Heb 6:18That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
- Rev 19:11And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
- Isa 25:1O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
- 2 Cor 11:23–28Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
- Hos 2:20I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD.
- Isa 11:5And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
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