35 Bible Verses about Resisting Temptation

No temptation hath taken you -- except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear it.

Not yet unto blood did ye resist -- with the sin striving;

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

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

And the Tempter having come to him said, 'If Son thou art of God -- speak that these stones may become loaves.'

be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;

and she catcheth him by his garment, saying, 'Lie with me;' and he leaveth his garment in her hand, and fleeth, and goeth without.

Happy the man who doth endure temptation, because, becoming approved, he shall receive the crown of the life, which the Lord did promise to those loving Him.

And mayest Thou not lead us to temptation, but deliver us from the evil, because Thine is the reign, and the power, and the glory -- to the ages. Amen.

And Jesus answering said to him -- 'It hath been said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.'

neither give place to the devil;

Let no one say, being tempted -- 'From God I am tempted,' for God is not tempted of evil, and Himself doth tempt no one,

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

Again doth the Devil take him to a very high mount, and doth shew to him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them,

for we have not a chief priest unable to sympathise with our infirmities, but one tempted in all things in like manner -- apart from sin;

And having ended all temptation, the Devil departed from him till a convenient season.

watch, and pray, that ye may not enter into temptation: the spirit indeed is forward, but the flesh weak.'

Then doth the Devil take him to the holy city, and doth set him on the pinnacle of the temple,

and he said to them, 'Why do ye sleep? having risen, pray that ye may not enter into temptation.'

Then saith Jesus to him, 'Go -- Adversary, for it hath been written, The Lord thy God thou shalt bow to, and Him only thou shalt serve.'

And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, 'If the Son thou art of God, cast thyself down hence,

and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he did hunger.

and saith to him, 'If Son thou art of God -- cast thyself down, for it hath been written, that, His messengers He shall charge concerning thee, and on hands they shall bear thee up, that thou mayest not dash on a stone thy foot.'

And the serpent saith unto the woman, 'Dying, ye do not die,

Then doth the Devil leave him, and lo, messengers came and were ministering to him.

And it cometh to pass after these things, that his lord's wife lifteth up her eyes unto Joseph, and saith, 'Lie with me;'

And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, turned back from the Jordan, and was brought in the Spirit to the wilderness,

and saith to him, 'All these to thee I will give, if falling down thou mayest bow to me.'

forty days being tempted by the Devil, and he did not eat anything in those days, and they having been ended, he afterward hungered,

because of this also, I, no longer forbearing, did send to know your faith, lest he who is tempting did tempt you, and in vain might be our labour.

whom resist, stedfast in the faith, having known the same sufferings to your brotherhood in the world to be accomplished.

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

And the Devil having brought him up to an high mountain, shewed to him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time,

and the Devil said to him, 'To thee I will give all this authority, and their glory, because to me it hath been delivered, and to whomsoever I will, I do give it;

and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;