12 Bible Verses about Temptation, Avoiding Causing

And he said to his disciples, "It is inevitable that hindrances should arise, but alas for the man who causes them!

But whoever hinders one of these children who believe in me might better have a great millstone hung around his neck and be sunk in the open sea.

And whoever causes one of these humble believers to fall might better have a great millstone hung around his neck and be thrown into the sea.

He might better have a millstone hung around his neck, and be thrown into the sea, than be a hindrance to one of these humble people.

Therefore let us not criticize one another any more. You must resolve instead never to put any hindrance or obstacle in your brother's way.

For if your brother's feelings are hurt by what you eat, your life is not governed by love. You must not, by what you eat, ruin a man for whom Christ died.

But you must take care that this right of yours does not prove a hindrance to the overscrupulous. For if somebody sees you, who are intelligent about this matter, attending a dinner in an idol's temple, will not he, with his sensitive conscience, be led to eat meat that is offered to idols? For this overscrupulous brother, for whom Christ died, is ruined by what you call your knowledge.read more.
But in sinning against your brothers in this way and wounding their too scrupulous consciences, you are really sinning against Christ. Therefore, if what I eat makes my brother fall, I will never eat meat again, rather than make my brother fall.

Take care of yourselves and of the whole flock, of which the holy Spirit has made you guardians, and be shepherds of the church of God, which he got at the cost of his own life. I know that after I am gone savage wolves will get in among you and will not spare the flock, and from your own number men will appear and teach perversions of the truth in order to draw the disciples away after them.read more.
So you must be on your guard and remember that for three years, night and day, I never stopped warning any of you, even with tears.

Henceforth you must grow strong through union with the Lord and through his mighty strength. You must put on God's armor, so as to be able to stand up against the devil's stratagems. For we have to struggle, not with enemies of flesh and blood, but with the hierarchies, the authorities, the master-spirits of this dark world, the spirit-forces of evil on high.read more.
So you must take God's armor, so that when the evil day comes you will be able to make a stand, and when it is all over to hold your ground.

Therefore, let us too, with such a crowd of witnesses about us, throw off every impediment and the entanglement of sin, and run with determination the race for which we are entered, fixing our eyes upon Jesus, our leader and example in faith, who in place of the happiness that belonged to him, submitted to a cross, caring nothing for its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God. Think of the opposition that he encountered from those sinners against themselves, if you would not grow weary and faint-hearted.

Be calm and watchful. Your opponent the devil is prowling about like a roaring lion, wanting to devour you. Resist him and be strong in the faith, for you know that your brotherhood all over the world is having the same experience of suffering.

Dear children, let no one mislead you; whoever acts uprightly is upright, just as he is upright.