10 verses · KJV
Scripture is honest that temptation is common to everyone, and equally honest that we are never left to face it alone — there is always "a way of escape." These verses are for the moment of pull, when you need to remember both the cost and the help available.
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.
Read in contextJames 1:12-14
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. 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: But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
Read in contextMatthew 26:41
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Read in contextHebrews 4:15-16
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. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Read in contextJames 4:7
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Read in context1 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, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
Read in contextGalatians 6:1
Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
Read in contextEphesians 6:11
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Read in contextProverbs 4:14-15
Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
Read in context2 Peter 2:9
The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
Read in contextIt finds you.
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Scripture is honest that temptation is common to everyone, and equally honest that we are never left to face it alone — there is always "a way of escape." These verses are for the moment of pull, when you need to remember both the cost and the help available.
1 Corinthians 10:13 is one of the most turned-to passages on temptation. It appears below alongside the other verses on this page, each shown in full so you can sit with the whole thought rather than a fragment.
Writing down what you are actually carrying — and then reading Scripture in response — turns a verse from words on a page into something spoken into your situation. Nemora was built for exactly this: you write, and Scripture responds.
