Temptation
Bible verses about resisting temptation, overcoming sin, and standing firm.
Verses
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God 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 .
No temptation has overtaken you
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Resist the devil and he will flee
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed willing, but the flesh weak.
Watch and pray against temptation
For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.
He is able to help those tempted
Blessed 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.
Blessed is the one who endures temptation
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
Each is tempted by his own desires
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Be sober-minded, be watchful
I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Walk by the Spirit
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Do not let sin reign in your body
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
Your word I have hidden in my heart