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 to them, “Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation.”
• Mark 14:38Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
• Eph 6:18with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:
• Matt 6:13Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’
• Gal 5:16–17But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.
• Rev 16:15“Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame.”
• Luke 21:36Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
• 1 Cor 16:13Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!
• 1 Pet 5:8Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
• 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.
• Rom 7:18–25For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.
• Mark 13:33–37Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don’t know when the time is.
• 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;
• Matt 24:42Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes.
• 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.
• 1 Pet 4:7But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
• Matt 25:13Watch therefore, for you don’t know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.
• 1 Cor 9:27but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
• Luke 22:40When he was at the place, he said to them, “Pray that you don’t enter into temptation.”
• Ps 119:32I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free. HEY
• Isa 26:8–9Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, have we waited for you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.
• Gal 5:24Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.
• Ps 119:35–37Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them.
• Ps 119:115Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.
• Ps 119:1ALEPH Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.
• Prov 4:14–15Don’t enter into the path of the wicked. Don’t walk in the way of evil men.
• Matt 26:38Then he said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me.”
• Phil 3:12–14Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.
• Luke 11:4Forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’”
• Ps 119:4–5You have commanded your precepts, that we should fully obey them.
• Ps 119:117Hold me up, and I will be safe, and will have respect for your statutes continually.
• Luke 8:13Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.
• Ps 119:24–25Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors. DALED
• Rom 8:3For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

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