35 Bible Verses about Resisting Temptation

No temptation has taken you except is common to man. But God is faithful who will not allow you to be tempted above what ye are able, but with the temptation will also make the way to escape, to enable you to endure.

Ye have not yet resisted as far as blood, struggling against sin.

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

Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

And after he who tempts came, he said to him, If thou are the Son of God, speak so that these stones may become bread.

Be subordinate therefore to God, but resist the devil and he will flee from you.

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

Blessed is a man who endures temptation, because, having become approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, because from thee is the kingdom and the power and the glory into the ages. Truly.

And having answered, Jesus said to him, It is said, Thou shall not challenge Lord thy God.

neither give place to the devil.

Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted by God, for God is without temptation of evils, and he himself tempts no man.

Jesus said to him, Again it is written, Thou shall not challenge Lord thy God.

Again, the devil takes him onto an exceedingly high mountain, and shows him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them.

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but who was tempted in all things in the same way, without sin.

And when the devil ended every temptation, he withdrew from him until a time.

Watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation. Truly, the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Then the devil takes him into the holy city, and stands him on the pinnacle of the temple.

And said to them, Why sleep ye? Having risen, pray that ye may not enter into temptation.

Then Jesus says to him, Get thee behind me, Satan, for it is written, Thou shall worship Lord thy God, and him only thou shall serve.

And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and he said to him, If thou are the Son of God, cast thyself down from here,

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

And he says to him, If thou are the Son of God, cast thyself down, for it is written, He will command his agents about thee, and, They will take thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

And the serpent said to the woman, Ye shall not surely die.

Then the devil leaves him, and behold, heavenly agents came and served him.

And it came to pass, after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph, and she said, Lay with me.

And Jesus, full of Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,

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

being tempted forty days by the devil. And he ate nothing in those days, and when they were ended, afterward he was hungry.

Because of this, I too, no longer covering over it, sent in order to know your faith, lest somehow he who tempts was tempting you, and our labor became in vain.

Whom resist, steadfast in the faith, knowing the same sufferings are to be accomplished in the world by your brotherhood.

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

And having brought him onto a high mountain, the devil showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

And the devil said to him, I will give to thee all this authority, and the glory of them, because it has been delivered to me, and to whomever I want I give it.

And flee juvenile impulses, but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those who call upon the Lord out of a pure heart.