Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
We call
They that tempt
Bible References
We call
Acts 12:21
one court-day, Herod array'd in his robes of state, and seated upon the throne, made a publick oration:
1 Peter 5:5
As for you that are young, be you submissive to those of a more advanc'd age: and do you all of you pay a becoming deference to one another: be cloak'd with humility, for " God opposes the proud, and shows favour to the humble."
They that tempt
Matthew 4:6
if you are the Son of God, throw your self down: for it is written, "he will charge his angels to take care of you, and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest you bruise your foot against a stone."
Acts 5:9
then Peter said to her, how comes it that you have conspir'd together, to tempt the spirit of the Lord? see there at the door the men that are come from burying thy husband, and they shall carry thee out likewise.
1 Corinthians 10:9
neither let us provoke Christ as some of them provoked him, and were destroyed by serpents.
Hebrews 3:9
where your fathers provoked me to give proofs of my power forty years, tho' they saw my works.