35 Bible Verses about Resisting Temptation

No temptation has taken you but such as is common to man, but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

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

For in that he himself has suffered and was tempted, he is also powerful to help those that are tempted.

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

And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou art the Son of God, command that these stones be made into bread.

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

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

Blessed is the man that patiently endures temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to those that love him.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

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

neither give place to the devil.

Let no one say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither does he tempt anyone:

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

Again, the devil took him up into an exceeding high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them

For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

And having finished all temptation, the devil departed from him for a season.

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

Then the devil took him up into the holy city and set him on a pinnacle of the temple

and said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.

Then Jesus said unto him, Get thee hence, Satan, for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

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

And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry.

and said unto him, If thou art the Son of God, cast thyself down, for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee, and in their hands they shall bear thee up lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.

Then the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

Then the devil left him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.

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

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

and said unto him, All these things I will give thee if thou wilt fall down and worship me.

for forty days and was tempted of the devil. And in those days he ate nothing; and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.

For this cause I, also, not waiting any longer, have sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter has tempted you and our labour is in vain.

resist him steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are to be accomplished in the company of your brethren that are in the world.

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

And the devil took him up into a high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the sphere of the world in a moment of time.

And the devil said unto him, All this authority I will give thee and the glory of them, for that is delivered unto me, and to whomsoever I will I give it.

Flee also youthful lusts, but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with those that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.