Overcoming Temptation · KJV
Bible Verses About Temptation
7 key scriptures
God will make a way of escape. These verses arm you against temptation and remind you that no trial is beyond His faithfulness.
1 Corinthians 10:13 →
“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.”
James 1:12 →
“Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.”
Matthew 26:41 →
“Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Hebrews 4:15 →
“For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.”
James 4:7 →
“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
1 Peter 5:8-9 →
“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: Whom resist stedfast in the faith.”
Psalm 119:11
“Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.”
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