TEMPTATION

Passages on this topic · 300

• Genesis 3:1

  Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’”

• Genesis 3:2

  The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden,

• Genesis 3:3

  but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it. You shall not touch it, lest you die.’”

• Genesis 3:4

  The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t surely die,

• Genesis 3:5

  for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

• Genesis 3:6

  When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.

• Genesis 3:7

  Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves.

• Genesis 3:8

  They heard Yahweh God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.

• Genesis 3:9

  Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”

• Genesis 3:10

  The man said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.”

• Genesis 3:11

  God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

• Genesis 3:12

  The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

• Genesis 3:13

  Yahweh God said to the woman, “What have you done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

• Genesis 12:18

  Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this that you have done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that she was your wife?

• Genesis 12:19

  Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way.”

• Genesis 20:6

  God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn’t allow you to touch her.

• Genesis 20:9

  Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, “What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!”

• Genesis 22:1

  After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”

• Genesis 22:2

  He said, “Now take your son, your only son, whom you love, even Isaac, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.”

• Genesis 22:3

  Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.

• Genesis 22:4

  On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off.

• Genesis 22:5

  Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go yonder. We will worship, and come back to you.”

• Genesis 22:6

  Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. He took in his hand the fire and the knife. They both went together.

• Genesis 22:7

  Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, “My father?” He said, “Here I am, my son.” He said, “Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”

• Genesis 22:8

  Abraham said, “God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So they both went together.

• Genesis 22:9

  They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood.

• Genesis 22:10

  Abraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to kill his son.

• Genesis 22:11

  Yahweh’s angel called to him out of the sky, and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”

• Genesis 22:12

  He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”

• Genesis 22:13

  Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son.

• Genesis 22:14

  Abraham called the name of that place Yahweh Will Provide. As it is said to this day, “On Yahweh’s mountain, it will be provided.”

• Genesis 39:7

  After these things, his master’s wife set her eyes on Joseph; and she said, “Lie with me.”

• Genesis 39:8

  But he refused, and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, my master doesn’t know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand.

• Genesis 39:9

  No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”

• Genesis 39:10

  As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he didn’t listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her.

• Exodus 34:12

  Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare in the middle of you:

• Exodus 34:13

  but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherah poles;

• Exodus 34:14

  for you shall worship no other god: for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

• Exodus 34:15

  “Don’t make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;

• Exodus 34:16

  and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.

• Deuteronomy 7:25

  You shall burn the engraved images of their gods with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God.

• Deuteronomy 8:2

  You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.

• Deuteronomy 8:5

  You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.

• Deuteronomy 8:11

  Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you today;

• Deuteronomy 8:12

  lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built fine houses, and lived in them;

• Deuteronomy 8:13

  and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;

• Deuteronomy 8:14

  then your heart might be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;

• Deuteronomy 8:17

  and lest you say in your heart, “My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.”

• Deuteronomy 8:18

  But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is today.

• Deuteronomy 13:1

  If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you, and he gives you a sign or a wonder,

• Deuteronomy 13:2

  and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, “Let us go after other gods” (which you have not known) “and let us serve them”;

• Deuteronomy 13:3

  you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams; for Yahweh your God is testing you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

• Judges 8:27

  Gideon made an ephod out of it, and put it in Ophrah, his city. Then all Israel played the prostitute with it there; and it became a snare to Gideon, and to his house.

• 1 Kings 13:15

  Then he said to him, “Come home with me, and eat bread.”

• 1 Kings 13:16

  He said, “I may not return with you, nor go in with you. I will not eat bread or drink water with you in this place.

• 1 Kings 13:17

  For it was said to me by Yahweh’s word, ‘You shall eat no bread or drink water there, and don’t turn again to go by the way that you came.’”

• 1 Kings 13:18

  He said to him, “I also am a prophet as you are; and an angel spoke to me by Yahweh’s word, saying, ‘Bring him back with you into your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.’” He lied to him.

• 1 Kings 13:19

  So he went back with him, ate bread in his house, and drank water.

• 1 Kings 15:30

  for the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and with which he made Israel to sin, because of his provocation with which he provoked Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger.

• 1 Chronicles 21:1

  Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to take a census of Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 32:30

  This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper spring of the waters of Gihon, and brought them straight down on the west side of David’s city. Hezekiah prospered in all his works.

• 2 Chronicles 32:31

  However concerning the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.

• Nehemiah 4:9

  But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.

• Job 1:8

  Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.”

• Job 1:9

  Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

• Job 1:10

  Haven’t you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

• Job 1:11

  But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face.”

• Job 1:12

  Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only on himself don’t stretch out your hand.” So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh.

• Job 1:13

  It fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

• Job 1:14

  that there came a messenger to Job, and said, “The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,

• Job 1:15

  and the Sabeans attacked, and took them away. Yes, they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

• Job 1:16

  While he was still speaking, there also came another, and said, “The fire of God has fallen from the sky, and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

• Job 1:17

  While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, “The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and have taken them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

• Job 1:18

  While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, “Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

• Job 1:19

  and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you.”

• Job 1:20

  Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped.

• Job 1:21

  He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

• Job 1:22

  In all this, Job did not sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.

• Job 2:3

  Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”

• Job 2:4

  Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

• Job 2:5

  But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”

• Job 2:6

  Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.”

• Job 2:7

  So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.

• Job 2:8

  He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.

• Job 2:9

  Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”

• Job 2:10

  But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

• Job 31:1

  “I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

• Job 31:5

  “If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit

• Job 31:6

  (let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);

• Job 31:7

  if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,

• Job 31:8

  then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

• Job 31:9

  “If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door,

• Job 31:10

  then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her.

• Job 31:11

  For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges:

• Job 31:12

  For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.

• Job 31:13

  “If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me;

• Job 31:14

  What then shall I do when God rises up? When he visits, what shall I answer him?

• Job 31:15

  Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?

• Job 31:16

  “If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

• Job 31:17

  or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

• Psalms 66:10

  For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.

• Psalms 66:11

  You brought us into prison. You laid a burden on our backs.

• Psalms 66:12

  You allowed men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you brought us to the place of abundance.

• Psalms 66:13

  I will come into your temple with burnt offerings. I will pay my vows to you,

• Psalms 119:165

  Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.

• Proverbs 1:10

  My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent.

• Proverbs 1:11

  If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lay in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.

• Proverbs 1:12

  Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.

• Proverbs 1:13

  We’ll find all valuable wealth. We’ll fill our houses with plunder.

• Proverbs 1:14

  You shall cast your lot among us. We’ll all have one purse.”

• Proverbs 1:15

  My son, don’t walk on the path with them. Keep your foot from their path,

• Proverbs 1:16

  for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

• Proverbs 1:17

  For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird:

• Proverbs 2:10

  For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

• Proverbs 2:11

  Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,

• Proverbs 2:12

  to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things;

• Proverbs 2:16

  To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;

• Proverbs 4:14

  Don’t enter into the path of the wicked. Don’t walk in the way of evil men.

• Proverbs 4:15

  Avoid it, and don’t pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.

• Proverbs 5:6

  She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it.

• Proverbs 5:7

  Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don’t depart from the words of my mouth.

• Proverbs 5:8

  Remove your way far from her. Don’t come near the door of her house,

• Proverbs 5:9

  lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel one;

• Proverbs 5:10

  lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man’s house.

• Proverbs 5:11

  You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

• Proverbs 5:12

  and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

• Proverbs 5:13

  neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!

• Proverbs 5:14

  I have come to the brink of utter ruin, among the gathered assembly.”

• Proverbs 5:15

  Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well.

• Proverbs 5:16

  Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares?

• Proverbs 5:17

  Let them be for yourself alone, not for strangers with you.

• Proverbs 5:18

  Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

• Proverbs 5:19

  A loving doe and a graceful deer — let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.

• Proverbs 5:20

  For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?

• Proverbs 5:21

  For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.

• Proverbs 6:27

  Can a man scoop fire into his lap, and his clothes not be burned?

• Proverbs 6:28

  Or can one walk on hot coals, and his feet not be scorched?

• Proverbs 7:7

  I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

• Proverbs 7:8

  passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house,

• Proverbs 7:9

  in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.

• Proverbs 7:10

  Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.

• Proverbs 7:11

  She is loud and defiant. Her feet don’t stay in her house.

• Proverbs 7:12

  Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.

• Proverbs 7:13

  So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:

• Proverbs 7:14

  “Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. Today I have paid my vows.

• Proverbs 7:15

  Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you.

• Proverbs 7:16

  I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.

• Proverbs 7:17

  I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

• Proverbs 7:18

  Come, let’s take our fill of loving until the morning. Let’s solace ourselves with loving.

• Proverbs 7:19

  For my husband isn’t at home. He has gone on a long journey.

• Proverbs 7:20

  He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon.”

• Proverbs 7:21

  With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

• Proverbs 7:22

  He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.

• Proverbs 7:23

  Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.

• Proverbs 9:15

  To call to those who pass by, who go straight on their ways,

• Proverbs 9:16

  “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here.” as for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

• Proverbs 9:17

  “Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant.”

• Proverbs 12:26

  A righteous person is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

• Proverbs 13:14

  The teaching of the wise is a spring of life, to turn from the snares of death.

• Proverbs 14:27

  The fear of Yahweh is a fountain of life, turning people from the snares of death.

• Proverbs 16:29

  A man of violence entices his neighbor, and leads him in a way that is not good.

• Proverbs 19:27

  If you stop listening to instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.

• Proverbs 28:10

  Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, he will fall into his own trap; but the blameless will inherit good.

• Ecclesiastes 7:26

  I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.

• Isaiah 33:15

  He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; He who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil —

• Isaiah 33:16

  he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.

• Jeremiah 2:24

  a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that sniffs the wind in her craving. When she is in heat, who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not weary themselves. In her month, they will find her.

• Jeremiah 2:25

  “Keep your feet from being bare, and your throat from thirst. But you said, ‘It is in vain. No, for I have loved strangers, and I will go after them.’

• Jeremiah 35:5

  I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites bowls full of wine, and cups; and I said to them, “Drink wine!”

• Jeremiah 35:6

  But they said, “We will drink no wine; for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying, ‘You shall drink no wine, neither you, nor your sons, forever.

• Jeremiah 35:7

  You shall not build a house, sow seed, plant a vineyard, or have any; but all your days you shall dwell in tents; that you may live many days in the land in which you live.’

• Daniel 12:10

  Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand; but those who are wise shall understand.

• Hosea 7:5

  On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers.

• Amos 2:12

  “But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, ‘Don’t prophesy!’

• Zechariah 13:9

  I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’”

• Matthew 4:1

  Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

• Matthew 4:2

  When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.

• Matthew 4:3

  The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”

• Matthew 4:4

  But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”

• Matthew 4:5

  Then the devil took him into the holy city. He set him on the pinnacle of the temple,

• Matthew 4:6

  and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, ‘He will put his angels in charge of you.’ and, ‘On their hands they will bear you up, so that you don’t dash your foot against a stone.’”

• Matthew 4:7

  Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’”

• Matthew 4:8

  Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.

• Matthew 4:9

  He said to him, “I will give you all of these things, if you will fall down and worship me.”

• Matthew 4:10

  Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’”

• Matthew 4:11

  Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and served him.

• Matthew 5:19

  Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

• Matthew 6:13

  Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’

• Matthew 12:45

  Then he goes, and takes with himself seven other spirits more evil than he is, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first. Even so will it be also to this evil generation.”

• Matthew 13:22

  What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

• Matthew 18:6

  but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone should be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea.

• Matthew 18:7

  “Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!

• Matthew 18:8

  If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire.

• Matthew 18:9

  If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire.

• Matthew 26:31

  Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’

• Matthew 26:41

  Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

• Mark 4:15

  The ones by the road are the ones where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes, and takes away the word which has been sown in them.

• Mark 4:17

  They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

• Mark 10:21

  Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross.”

• Mark 10:22

  But his face fell at that saying, and he went away sorrowful, for he was one who had great possessions.

• Mark 10:23

  Jesus looked around, and said to his disciples, “How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!”

• Mark 10:24

  The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, “Children, how hard is it for those who trust in riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!

• Mark 10:25

  It is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom.”

• Mark 13:21

  Then if anyone tells you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or, ‘Look, there!’ don’t believe it.

• Mark 13:22

  For there will arise false christs and false prophets, and will show signs and wonders, that they may lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.

• Mark 14:38

  Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

• Luke 4:1

  Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness

• Luke 4:2

  for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry.

• Luke 4:3

  The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.”

• Luke 4:4

  Jesus answered him, saying, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’”

• Luke 4:5

  The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

• Luke 4:6

  The devil said to him, “I will give you all this authority, and their glory, for it has been delivered to me; and I give it to whomever I want.

• Luke 4:7

  If you therefore will worship before me, it will all be yours.”

• Luke 4:8

  Jesus answered him, “Get behind me Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’”

• Luke 4:9

  He led him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down from here,

• Luke 4:10

  for it is written, ‘He will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you;’

• Luke 4:11

  and, ‘On their hands they will bear you up, lest perhaps you dash your foot against a stone.’”

• Luke 4:12

  Jesus answering, said to him, “It has been said, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’”

• Luke 4:13

  When the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from him until another time.

• Luke 8:13

  Those 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.

• Luke 8:14

  That which fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.

• Luke 11:4

  Forgive 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.’”

• Luke 22:3

  Satan entered into Judas, who was also called Iscariot, who was counted with the twelve.

• Luke 22:31

  The Lord said, “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat,

• Luke 22:32

  but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn’t fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers.”

• Luke 22:40

  When he was at the place, he said to them, “Pray that you don’t enter into temptation.”

• Luke 22:46

  and said to them, “Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation.”

• John 16:1

  “I have said these things to you so that you wouldn’t be caused to stumble.

• John 16:2

  They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

• Romans 6:12

  Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

• Romans 6:13

  Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

• Romans 6:14

  For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

• Romans 7:5

  For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.

• Romans 8:35

  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

• Romans 8:36

  Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

• Romans 8:37

  No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

• Romans 8:38

  For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

• Romans 8:39

  nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from God’s love, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

• Romans 12:21

  Don’t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

• Romans 14:13

  Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.

• Romans 14:15

  Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

• Romans 14:21

  It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

• 1 Corinthians 7:5

  Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

• 1 Corinthians 8:9

  But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

• 1 Corinthians 8:10

  For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol’s temple, won’t his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

• 1 Corinthians 8:11

  And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.

• 1 Corinthians 8:12

  Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

• 1 Corinthians 8:13

  Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.

• 1 Corinthians 10:13

  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.

• 1 Corinthians 10:28

  But if anyone says to you, “This was offered to idols,” don’t eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience. For “the earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness.”

• 1 Corinthians 10:29

  Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other’s conscience. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience?

• 1 Corinthians 10:30

  If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced for that for which I give thanks?

• 1 Corinthians 10:31

  Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

• 1 Corinthians 10:32

  Give no occasion for stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;

• 2 Corinthians 2:11

  that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

• 2 Corinthians 11:3

  But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

• 2 Corinthians 11:14

  And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.

• 2 Corinthians 11:15

  It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

• 2 Corinthians 12:7

  By 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.

• Galatians 4:14

  That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn’t despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

• Galatians 5:17

  For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

• Ephesians 4:27

  and don’t give place to the devil.

• Ephesians 6:11

  Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

• Ephesians 6:13

  Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand.

• Ephesians 6:14

  Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

• Ephesians 6:15

  and having fitted your feet with the preparation of the Good News of peace;

• Ephesians 6:16

  above all, taking up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one.

• Ephesians 6:17

  And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;

• 1 Thessalonians 3:5

  For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

• 1 Timothy 5:15

  For already some have turned aside after Satan.

• 1 Timothy 6:9

  But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

• 1 Timothy 6:10

  For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

• 2 Timothy 3:13

  But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

• Hebrews 2:18

  For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.

• Hebrews 4:15

  For 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.

• Hebrews 11:17

  By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son,

• Hebrews 12:3

  For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

• Hebrews 12:4

  You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin;

• James 1:2

  Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

• James 1:3

  knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

• James 1:4

  Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

• James 1:12

  Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

• James 1:13

  Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.

• James 1:14

  But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

• James 1:15

  Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, produces death.

• James 1:16

  Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers.

• James 4:7

  Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

• 1 Peter 1:6

  Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in various trials,

• 1 Peter 1:7

  that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ —

• 1 Peter 4:12

  Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.

• 2 Peter 2:9

  the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;

• 2 Peter 2:18

  For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

• 2 Peter 3:17

  You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.

• 1 John 2:16

  For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

• 1 John 2:26

  These things I have written to you concerning those who would lead you astray.

• 1 John 4:4

  You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

• Revelation 3:10

  Because 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.

• Revelation 12:10

  I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ has come; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.

• Revelation 12:11

  They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.

• Revelation 12:17

  The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep God’s commandments and hold Jesus’ testimony.