34 Bible Verses about Temptation, Resisting

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

But in all these we obtain a complete victory by him having loved us.

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

For we have not a chief priest unable to suffer with our weaknesses; but tried in all things as a resemblance, without sin. We should therefore go with freedom of speech to the throne of grace, that we receive mercy, and find grace for timely assistance.

Deem all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various trials; Knowing that the proof of your faith works patience.

Ye are of God, little children, and have conquered them: for greater is he in you, than he in the world.

And those condemning the covenant shall pollute by smooth things: and the people knowing their God shall be strong and do.

My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my commands with thee; To attend to wisdom thou wilt incline thine ear, thy heart to understanding;

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 remit to us our sins; for we onrselves also remit to every one indebted to us. 'And bring us not into temptation; but deliver us from the evil.

And thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow justice, devotion, faith, love, patience, meekness. Contend earnestly the good contest of faith, take hold upon eternal life, into which thou wert also called, and hast confessed the good confession before many witnesses.

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

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

Watch ye and pray, that ye should not come into temptation. Truly the spirit well inclined, and the flesh weak.

And being at the place, he said to them, Pray ye not to enter into temptation.

And if thy hand or thy foot give thee cause of offence, cut them off, and cast from thee: it is good for thee to come into life lame or maimed, than having two hands or two feet to be cast into eternal fire. And if thine eye give thee cause of offence, take it out, and east from thee: it is good for thee, one-eyed, to enter into life, than having two eyes to be cast into a hell of fire.

Deprive ye not one another, except somewhat of an agreement for a time, that ye might have leisure for fasting and prayer; and again upon the same ye might come together, lest Satan tempt you for your want of self command.

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

You therefore, dearly beloved, knowing beforehand, watch, lest, led away by the error of the lawless, ye fall from your own stability.

Brethren, if a man be taken in any fault, ye the spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; observing thyself narrowly, lest thou also be tempted.

Keep away from all appearance of evil.

My son, if they sinning shall entice thee, thou shalt not go in. If they shall say, Go with us, we will lie in wait for blood, we will hide for the innocent gratuitously; We will swallow them down living, as hades, and whole, as they going down to the pit:read more.
We shall find precious riches, we will fill our houses with spoil: Wilt thou cast thy lot in the midst of us; one purse shall be to all: My son, thou shalt not go in the way with them; withhold thy foot from their beaten paths:

Therefore let not sin reign in your mortal body, to listen to it in its passions. Neither present ye your members weapons of injustice to sin: but present yourselves to God, as living from the dead, and your members weapons of justice to God. For sin shall not rule over you: for ye are not under law, but under grace.

In all this Job sinned not, and gave not folly to God.

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 he will refuse, and will say to his lord's wife, Behold, my lord knew not what is with me in the house, and all which is to him he gave into my hand; Nothing is great in this house above me: and he kept not back anything from me except thee, because thou his wife: and how shall I do this great evil and sin before God?read more.
And it will be in her speaking to Joseph day by day, and he listened not to her to he by her, to be with her.

And he will say to her, According to the word of one of the foolish women thou wilt speak. Shall we also receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this. Job sinned not with his lips.

And I shall give before the sons of the house of the Rechabites, pots full of wine, and cups, and saying to them, Drink ye wine. And they will say, We shall not drink wine: for Jonadab, son of Rechab our father, commanded to us, saying, Ye shall not drink wine, ye and your sons even to forever.

And Daniel will set up upon his heart that he will not be defiled with the dainties of the king, and with the wine of his drinking: and he will seek from the chief of the eunuchs that he shall not defile himself.

And he having answered, said, It has been written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word going forth through the mouth of God.

And Jesus answered to him saying, It has been written, That not by bread alone shall man live, but by every word of God.

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

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

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 having answered him Jesus said, Retire behind me, Satan: for it has been written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.