Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
The spirit
General references
Bible References
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Matthew 6:13
and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.'
Luke 8:13
Those 'on the rock' are people who on hearing the word welcome it with enthusiasm, but they have no root; they believe for a while and fall away in the hour of trial.
Luke 11:4
and forgive us our sins for we do forgive everyone who has offended us; and lead us not into temptation."
1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has waylaid you that is beyond man's power; trust God, he will never let you be tempted beyond what you can stand, but when temptation comes, he will provide the way out of it, so that you can bear up under it.
Revelation 3:10
Because you have kept the word of my patient endurance, I will keep you safe through the hour of trial which is coming upon the whole world to test the dwellers on earth.
The spirit
Romans 7:18
For in me (that is, in my flesh) no good dwells, I know; the wish is there, but not the power of doing what is right.
Romans 8:3
For God has done what the Law, weakened here by the flesh, could not do; by sending his own Son in the guise of sinful flesh, to deal with sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
Galatians 5:16
I mean, lead the life of the Spirit; then you will never satisfy the passions of the flesh.
Philippians 3:12
Not that I have already attained this or am already perfect, but I press forward to appropriate it, because I have been appropriated myself by Christ Jesus.
General references
Matthew 26:70
But he denied it before them all; "I do not know what you mean," he said.
Mark 13:33
Take care, keep awake and pray; you never know the time.
1 Corinthians 10:12
So let anyone who thinks he stands secure, take care in case he falls.