35 Bible Verses about Resisting Temptation

Temptation has not come upon you except [what is] common to humanity. But God [is] faithful, who will not permit you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but will also make a way out together with the temptation, [so that you] may be able to endure [it].

You have not yet resisted to the point of [shedding your] blood [as you] struggle against sin.

For in that which he himself suffered [when he] was tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.

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

And the tempter approached [and] said to him, "If you are the Son of God, order that these stones become bread."

Therefore subject yourselves to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

she seized him by his garment [and] said, "Lie with me!" And he left his garment in her hand and fled, and he went outside.

Blessed [is] the person who endures testing, because [when he] is approved he will receive the crown of life that he has promised to those who love him.

And do not bring us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

And Jesus answered [and] said to him, "It is said, 'You are not to put to the test the Lord your God.'"

nor give place to the devil.

No one who is being tempted should say, "I am being tempted by God," for God {cannot be tempted} by evil, and he himself tempts no one.

Jesus said to him, "On the other hand it is written, 'You are not to put the Lord your God to the test.'"

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

For we do not have a high priest who is not able to sympathize with our weaknesses, but who has been tempted in all [things] in the same way, without sin.

And [when] the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from him until a favorable time.

Stay awake and pray that you will not enter into temptation. The spirit [is] willing, but the flesh [is] weak!"

Then the devil took him to the holy city and placed him on the highest point of the temple

and he said to them, "Why are you sleeping? Get up [and] pray that you will not enter into temptation!"

Then Jesus said to him, "Go away, Satan, for it is written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God and serve only him.'"

And he brought him to Jerusalem, and had him stand on the highest point of the temple and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here,

and [after he] had fasted forty days and forty nights, then he was hungry.

and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down! For it is written, 'He will command his angels concerning you,' and 'On [their] hands they will lift you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.'"

But the serpent said to the woman, "You shall not surely die.

Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and began ministering to him.

And it happened [that] after these things his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph, and she said, "Lie with me."

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

and he said to him, "I will give to you all these things, if you will fall down [and] worship me."

forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days, and [when] they were completed, he was hungry.

Because of this, I also, [when I] could endure [it] no longer, sent in order to know your faith, lest somehow the tempter tempted you and our labor should be in vain.

{Resist him}, steadfast in your faith, [because you] know the same [kinds] of sufferings are being accomplished by your community of believers in the world.

So now why are you putting God to the test [by] placing on the neck of the disciples a yoke that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?

And he led him up [and] showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

And the devil said to him, "I will give you all this domain and their glory, because it has been handed over to me, and I can give it to whomever I want.

But flee from youthful desires, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, [and] peace, in company with those who call upon the Lord from a pure heart.