Bible on Temptation

Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

An evil man seeketh only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.

Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.

Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.

Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.

Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked:

Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.

The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.

A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.

All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.

And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.

And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.

And they that kept them fled, and went their ways into the city, and told every thing, and what was befallen to the possessed of the devils.

As they went out, behold, they brought to him a dumb man possessed with a devil.

And if Satan rise up against himself, and be divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end.

There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.

For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?

Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations.

And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.

And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.

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

Let no man seek his own, but every man another’s wealth.

Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.

Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us:

But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.

For every man shall bear his own burden.

Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.

Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.

Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men’s sins: keep thyself pure.

Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

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

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.