Temptation



Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. - Psalm 119:11

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. - James 4:7

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. - Psalm 51:10

Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart... Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. - Psalm 37:4,5

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. - John 16:33

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose... For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. - Romans 8:28,29

There 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. - 1 Corinthians 10:13

My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;.. Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. - James 1:2,3

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him... Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:.. But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed... Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. - James 1:12-15

Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil... And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred... And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread... But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God... Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him. - Matthew 4:1-4,11

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