Overcoming Temptation
10 passages
- 1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.
Read it in context - James 4:7
Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Read it in context - Galatians 5:16
So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
Read it in context - 1 Corinthians 6:18–20
18Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. 19Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.
Read it in context - Hebrews 2:18
Because He Himself suffered when He was tempted, He is able to help those who are being tempted.
Read it in context - James 1:14
But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed.
Read it in context - James 4:17
Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.
Read it in context - 1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Read it in context - Luke 22:40
When He came to the place, He told them, “Pray that you will not enter into temptation.”
Read it in context - Hebrews 4:15
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who was tempted in every way that we are, yet was without sin.
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