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.

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• Luke 22:46And said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.
• Mark 14:38Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.
• Eph 6:18Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
• Matt 6:13And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
• Gal 5:16–17This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
• Rev 16:15Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
• Luke 21:36Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
• 1 Cor 16:13Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
• 1 Pet 5:8Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
• 1 Cor 10:13There 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.
• Rom 7:18–25For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
• Mark 13:33–37Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
• 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:
• Matt 24:42Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
• 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.
• 1 Pet 4:7But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
• Matt 25:13Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
• 1 Cor 9:27But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
• Luke 22:40And when he was at the place, he said unto them, Pray that ye enter not into temptation.
• Ps 119:32I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.
• Isa 26:8–9Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.
• Gal 5:24And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
• Ps 119:35–37Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.
• Ps 119:115Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.
• Ps 119:1Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.
• Prov 4:14–15Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.
• Matt 26:38Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
• Phil 3:12–14Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
• 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 119:4–5Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.
• Ps 119:117Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually.
• Luke 8:13They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.
• Ps 119:24–25Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.
• Rom 8:3For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

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