Quotes About Temptation

From the day you were created you were blameless in your ways—until wickedness was found in you.

As they drank the wine, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.

For their mother has played the harlot and has conceived them in disgrace. For she thought, ëI will go after my lovers, who give me bread and water, wool and linen, oil and drink.í

Promiscuity, wine, and new wine take away understanding.

They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery.

They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.

Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin until they are drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!

Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.

The tempter came to Him and said, “If You are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”

Then the devil took Him to the holy city and set Him on the pinnacle of the temple.

“If You are the Son of God,” he said, “throw Yourself down. For it is written: ëHe will command His angels concerning You, and they will lift You up in their hands, so that You will not strike Your foot against a stone.í”

Again, the devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.

“All this I will give You,” he said, “if You will fall down and worship me.”

“Away from Me, Satan!” Jesus declared. “For it is written: ëWorship the Lord your God and serve Him only.í”

Then the devil left Him, and angels came and ministered to Him.

But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to depart into hell.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.í

Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and dwell there; and the final plight of that man is worse than the first. So will it be with this wicked generation.”

But Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me. For you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.”

Woe to the world for the causes of sin. These stumbling blocks must come, but woe to the man through whom they come!

And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.