Temptation

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Revelation 3:10 NT

  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.

• 1 Peter 1:6 NT

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

• Ephesians 6:16 NT

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

• 1 Peter 5:9 NT

  Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.

• Matthew 26:41 NT

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

• 1 Peter 5:8 NT

  Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

• Matthew 6:13 NT

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

• Romans 14:13 NT

  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.

• Galatians 6:1 NT

  Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

• Proverbs 4:14 OT

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

• Proverbs 4:15 OT

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

• Luke 4:13 NT

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

• Luke 8:13 NT

  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.

• James 1:2-4 NT

  Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

• James 1:12 NT

  Blessed is a person 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.

• Genesis 3:1 OT

  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 3:4 OT

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

• Genesis 3:5 OT

  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 39:7 OT

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

• Joshua 7:21 OT

  When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with…

• 2 Samuel 11:2 OT

  At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at.

• 1 Kings 15:30 OT

  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.

• Mark 14:67-71 NT

  and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him, and said, “You were also with the Nazarene, Jesus!” But he denied it, saying, “I neither know, nor understand what you are saying.” He went out on the porch, and the rooster crowed. The…

• 2 Corinthians 12:7 NT

  By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, a thorn in the flesh was given to me: a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.