35 Bible Verses about Resisting Temptation

No temptation except human has taken you and God faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able; but with the temptation will he also make an escape, that ye may be able to bear.

Ye have not yet resisted until blood, fighting against sin.

For in that he himself has suffered, having been tempted, he is able to help the tempted.

Then was Jesus led up by the Spirit into the desert to be tried by the devil.

And the tempter having come to him, said, If thou art the Son of God, say that these stones should become bread.

Be subjected therefore to God. Resist the accuser, and he will flee from you.

And she will seize him by his garment, saying, Lie with me. And he will let go his garment in her hand, and will flee and come forth without

Happy the man who endures temptation: for being tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to them loving him.

And thou shouldst not lead us into temptation, but deliver thou us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.

And Jesus having answered said to him, That it has been said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

Neither give place to the accuser.

Let none say being tempted, that I am tempted of God: for God is not tempted of evils, and he tempts none:

Jesus said to him, Again has it been written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

Again, the devil takes him into a very high mount, and shows him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory;

For we have not a chief priest unable to suffer with our weaknesses; but tried in all things as a resemblance, without sin.

And having ended all the trial, the devil departed from him for a time.

Watch and pray, lest ye come into temptation: truly the spirit of a ready will, and the flesh weak.

Then the devil takes him into the holy city, and sets him upon the small wing of the temple;

And he said to them, Why sleep ye? having risen, pray that ye might not enter into temptation.

Then says Jesus to him, Retire, Satan; for it has been written, The Lord thy God shalt thou worship, and him alone shalt thou serve.

And he brought him to Jerusalem and set him upon the small wing of the temple, and said to him, If thou art the Son of God; cast thyself down from hence:

And having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry.

And says to him, If thou art the Son of God cast thyself down; for it has been written, That to his messengers he will command concerning thee; and in the hands shall they lift thee up, lest that perhaps thou strike thy foot against a stone.

And the serpent will say to the woman, Dying ye shall not die.

Then the devil lets him go, and behold, the messengers came up, and they served him.

And it will be after these words, and his lord's wife will lift up her eyes to Joseph, and she will say, Lie with me.

And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, turned back from Jordan, and was led by the Holy Spirit into the desert,

And he says to him, All these will I give to thee, if, falling down, thou wouldst worship me.

Being tempted forty days by the devil. And he ate nothing in those days: and they having ended, he afterward hungered.

For this I also, no more concealing, sent to know your faith, lest some way he tempting have tempted you, and our labor be in vain.

Whom resist firm in the faith, knowing that the same of sufferings are completed by your brotherhood in the world.

Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

And the devil, bringing him into a high mountain, shewed him all the kingdoms of the habitable globe in an instant of time.

And the devil said to him, I will give thee all this power, and their glory; for to me has it been delivered; and to whom I will I give it.

And flee youthful, eager desires: and follow justice, faith, love, peace, with them calling upon the Lord from a pure heart.