Bible Verses About Temptation

“But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.”

“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.”

“And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.”

“But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.”

“Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.”

“Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.”

“But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.”

“And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.”

“Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?”

“Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

“But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.”

“Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.”

“The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:”

“For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.”

“For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.”

“And because thou wast acceptable to God, it was necessary that temptation should prove thee.”

“And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season.”

“And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.”

“Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.”

“Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:”

“For she walketh with him in temptation, and at the first she chooseth him.”

“And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.”

“Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:”

“Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will entice him. And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith?”

“Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:”

“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:”

“And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.”

“For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.”

“And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.”

“And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;”