35 Bible Verses about Resisting Temptation

No temptation has taken you but such as is according to man's nature; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able to bear, but will with the temptation make the issue also, so that ye should be able to bear it.

Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, wrestling against sin.

for, in that himself has suffered, being tempted, he is able to help those that are being tempted.

Then Jesus was carried up into the wilderness by the Spirit to be tempted of the devil:

And the tempter coming up to him said, If thou be Son of God, speak, that these stones may become loaves of bread.

Subject yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Then she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me! But he left his garment in her hand, and fled and ran out.

Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for, having been proved, he shall receive the crown of life, which He has promised to them that love him.

and lead us not into temptation, but save us from evil.

And Jesus answering said to him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

neither give room for the devil.

Let no man, being tempted, say, I am tempted of God. For God cannot be tempted by evil things, and himself tempts no one.

Jesus said to him, It is again written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

Again the devil takes him to a very high mountain, and shews him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory,

For we have not a high priest not able to sympathise with our infirmities, but tempted in all things in like manner, sin apart.

And the devil, having completed every temptation, departed from him for a time.

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is ready, but the flesh weak.

Then the devil takes him to the holy city, and sets him upon the edge of the temple,

And he said to them, Why sleep ye? rise up and pray that ye enter not into temptation.

Then says Jesus to him, Get thee away, Satan, for it is written, Thou shalt do homage to the Lord thy God, and him alone shalt thou serve.

And he led him to Jerusalem, and set him on the edge of the temple, and said to him, If thou be Son of God, cast thyself down hence;

and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he hungered.

and says to him, If thou be Son of God cast thyself down; for it is written, He shall give charge to his angels concerning thee, and on their hands shall they bear thee, lest in anywise thou strike thy foot against a stone.

And the serpent said to the woman, Ye will not certainly die;

Then the devil leaves him, and behold, angels came and ministered to him.

And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph, and said, Lie with me!

But Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness

and says to him, All these things will I give thee if, falling down, thou wilt do me homage.

forty days, tempted of the devil; and in those days he did not eat anything, and when they were finished he hungered.

For this reason I also, no longer able to refrain myself, sent to know your faith, lest perhaps the tempter had tempted you and our labour should be come to nothing.

Whom resist, stedfast in faith, knowing that the selfsame sufferings are accomplished in your brotherhood which is in the world.

Now therefore why tempt ye God, by putting a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?

And the devil, leading him up into a high mountain, shewed him all the kingdoms of the habitable world in a moment of time.

And the devil said to him, I will give thee all this power, and their glory; for it is given up to me, and to whomsoever I will I give it.

But youthful lusts flee, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those that call upon the Lord out of a pure heart.