Quotes About Temptation

But stretch out Your hand and strike all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”

“Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “Everything he has is in your hands, but you must not lay a hand on the man himself.” Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.

“Where have you come from?” said the LORD to Satan. “From roaming through the earth,” he replied, “and walking back and forth in it.”

“Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life.

But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”

Then Jobís wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!”

For his own feet lead him into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.

Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he conceals it under his tongue,

though he cannot bear to let it go and keeps it in his mouth,

The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ëNo eye will see me,í he covers his face.

“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?

If my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has followed my eyes, or if impurity has stuck to my hands,

If my heart has been enticed by my neighborís wife, or I have lurked at his door,

so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,

They die in their youth, among the male shrine prostitutes.

Be careful that no one lures you with riches; do not let a large bribe lead you astray.

Be careful not to turn to iniquity, for this you have preferred to affliction.

Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil.

For the choirmaster. For Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, “I will watch my ways so that I will not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle as long as the wicked are present.”

refusing to hear the tune of the charmer who skillfully weaves his spell.

For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

From their prosperity proceeds iniquity; the imaginations of their hearts run wild.

But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.

Yet before they had filled their desire, with the food still in their mouths,