Bible on Temptation

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:

Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.

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

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

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.

Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

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.

For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.

Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.

Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.

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

Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.

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

But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.

But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?

But he perceived their craftiness, and said unto them, Why tempt ye me?

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:

Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.

The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.

A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.

Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.

And said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.

And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:

Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.

Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

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

Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

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

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.

The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice.

The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe.

Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD.

And when he was at the place, he said unto them, Pray that ye enter not into temptation.

It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.

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

Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.

For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.

And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:

Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:

Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD.

And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.

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

For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.

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

Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

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