Temptation

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Proverbs 14:27 OT

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

• Proverbs 16:29 OT

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

• Proverbs 19:27 OT

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

• Proverbs 28:10 OT

  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 OT

  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 OT

  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 OT

  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 OT

  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 OT

  “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 35:5-7 OT

  I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites bowls full of wine, and cups; and I said to them, “Drink wine!” But they said, “We will drink no wine; for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying, ‘You shall drink…

• Hosea 7:5 OT

  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 OT

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

• Matthew 4:1-11 NT

  Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward. The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command that these…

• Matthew 5:19 NT

  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 12:45 NT

  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 NT

  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 18:6-9 NT

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

• Matthew 26:31 NT

  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 NT

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

• Mark 4:15 NT

  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 NT

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

• Mark 10:21-25 NT

  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.” But his face fell at that saying, and…

• Mark 13:21 NT

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

• Mark 13:22 NT

  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.