Matthew 26:41

Jesus urges them to watch and pray against temptation, noting the spirit is willing but the flesh weak. He teaches dependence on God in the face of trial.

Cross-references · 34

• Luke 22:46“Why are you sleeping?” He asked. “Get up and pray so that you will not enter into temptation.”
• Mark 14:38Watch and pray so that you will not enter into temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak.”
• Eph 6:18Pray in the Spirit at all times, with every kind of prayer and petition. To this end, stay alert with all perseverance in your prayers for all the saints.
• Matt 6:13And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’
• Gal 5:16–17So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
• Rev 16:15“Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who remains awake and clothed, so that he will not go naked and let his shame be exposed.”
• Luke 21:36So keep watch at all times, and pray that you may have the strength to escape all that is about to happen and to stand before the Son of Man.”
• 1 Cor 16:13Be on the alert. Stand firm in the faith. Be men of courage. Be strong.
• 1 Pet 5:8Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
• 1 Cor 10:13No 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.
• Rom 7:18–25I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
• Mark 13:33–37Be on your guard and stay alert! For you do not know when the appointed time will come.
• 2 Pet 2:9if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.
• Matt 24:42Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day on which your Lord will come.
• Rev 3:10Because you have kept My command to persevere, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
• 1 Pet 4:7The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear-minded and sober, so that you can pray.
• Matt 25:13Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.
• 1 Cor 9:27No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
• Luke 22:40When He came to the place, He told them, “Pray that you will not enter into temptation.”
• Ps 119:32I run in the path of Your commandments, for You will enlarge my heart.
• Isa 26:8–9Yes, we wait for You, O LORD; we walk in the path of Your judgments. Your name and renown are the desire of our souls.
• Gal 5:24Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
• Ps 119:35–37Direct me in the path of Your commandments, for there I find delight.
• Ps 119:115Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may obey the commandments of my God.
• Ps 119:1Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the Law of the LORD.
• Prov 4:14–15Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evildoers.
• Matt 26:38Then He said to them, “My soul is consumed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with Me.”
• Phil 3:12–14Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.
• Luke 11:4And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins against us. And lead us not into temptation.’”
• Ps 119:4–5You have ordained Your precepts, that we should keep them diligently.
• Ps 119:117Uphold me, and I will be saved, that I may always regard Your statutes.
• Luke 8:13The seeds on rocky ground are those who hear the word and receive it with joy, but they have no root. They believe for a season, but in the time of testing, they fall away.
• Ps 119:24–25Your testimonies are indeed my delight; they are my counselors.
• Rom 8:3For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,

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