Quotes about Temptation

know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.

So now I tell you that I will not drive out these people before you; they will be thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.”

From all this Gideon made an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his hometown. But soon all Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his household.

One day Samson went down to Timnah, where he saw a young Philistine woman.

Then Samson continued on his way down and spoke to the woman, because she was pleasing to his eyes.

One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went in to spend the night with her.

Some time later, Samson fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me the source of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.”

Finally, after she had pressed him daily with her words and pleaded until he was sick to death,

And when they entered the forest and saw the flowing honey, not one of them put his hand to his mouth, because they feared the oath.

Then all the people came and urged David to eat something while it was still day, but David took an oath, saying, “May God punish me, and ever so severely, if I taste bread or anything else before the sun sets!”

One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.