35 Bible Verses about Resisting Temptation

There hath none other temptation taken you, such as followeth the nature of man. God is faithful, which shall not suffer you to be tempted above your strength: but shall in the midst of the temptation make a way to escape out.

For ye have not yet resisted unto blood shedding, striving against sin.

For in that he himself suffered, and was tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.

Then was Jesus led away of the spirit into wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

Then came to him the tempter, and said, "If thou be the son of God, command that these stones be made bread."

Submit yourselves to God, and resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

And she caught him by the garment, saying, "Come, sleep with me." And he left his garment in her hand and fled and got him out.

Happy is the man that endureth in temptation, for when he is tried he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

Lead us not into temptation: but deliver us from evil, For thine is the kingdom and the power, and the glory for ever. Amen.

Jesus answered and said to him, "It is said, 'Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.'"

neither give place unto the backbiter.

Let no man say when he is tempted that he is tempted of God: for God tempteth not unto evil, neither tempteth he any man.

And Jesus said to him, "It is written also, 'Thou shalt not tempt thy Lord God.'"

The devil took him up again and led him into an exceeding high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and all the glory of them;

For we have not a high priest, which cannot have compassion on our infirmities: but was in all points tempted, as we are: but yet without sin.

And as soon as the devil had ended all his temptations, he departed from him for a season.

Watch and pray, that ye fall not into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."

Then the devil took him up into the holy city, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple,

and said unto them, "Why sleep ye? Rise, and pray lest ye fall into temptation."

Then said Jesus unto him, "Depart, Satan: For it is written, 'Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve.'"

And he carried him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, "If thou be the son of God, cast thyself down from hence.

And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward a hungered.

and said unto him, "If thou be the son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, 'He shall give his angels charge over thee: and with their hands they shall hold thee up, that thou dash not thy foot against a stone.'"

Then said the serpent unto the woman, "Tush, ye shall not die:

Then the devil left him, and, Behold, the angels came and ministered unto him.

And it fortuned, after this, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, "Come lie with me."

Jesus then full of the holy ghost, returned from Jordan, and was carried of the spirit into a wilderness,

and said to him, "All these will I give thee if thou wilt fall down and worship me."

and was forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days ate he nothing: And when they were ended, he afterward hungered.

For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent that I might have knowledge of your faith, lest haply the tempter had tempted you, and that our labour had been bestowed in vain.

whom resist, steadfast in the faith, remembering that ye do but fulfill the same afflictions which are appointed to your brethren that are in the world.

Now therefore, why tempt ye God, that ye would put a yoke on the disciples necks which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

And the devil took him up into a high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, even in the twinkling of an eye.

And the devil said unto him, "All this power will I give thee every whit, and the glory of them: for that is delivered to me, and to whosoever I will I give it:

Lusts of youth avoid, and follow righteousness, faith, love, and peace, with them that call on the Lord with pure heart.