Hebrews 2:18

Because Jesus Himself suffered when tempted, He is able to help those who are tempted. His own trials make Him a sympathetic and effective helper.

Cross-references · 15

• 1 Cor 10:13No 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.
• Heb 4:15–16For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.
• Heb 7:25–26Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.
• Jude 1:24Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,
• Heb 5:2The high priest can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray, because he himself is also surrounded with weakness.
• 2 Tim 1:12For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.
• Rev 3:10Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
• 2 Pet 2:9the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;
• John 10:29My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand.
• Luke 22:53When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn’t stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.”
• Matt 26:37–39He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and severely troubled.
• Matt 4:1–10Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
• Heb 5:7–9He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,
• Phil 3:21who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.
• 2 Cor 12:7–10By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.

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