Quotes about Temptation

This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’

Surely extortion turns a wise man into a fool, and a bribe corrupts the heart.

And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.

By the time He knows enough to reject evil and choose good, He will be eating curds and honey.

Now what will you gain on your way to Egypt to drink the waters of the Nile? What will you gain on your way to Assyria to drink the waters of the Euphrates?

They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor’s wife.

They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor’s wife.

and if you say, ‘No, but we will go to the land of Egypt and live there, where we will not see war or hear the sound of the ram’s horn or hunger for bread,’

Instead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and good things, and we saw no disaster.

You also took the fine jewelry of gold and silver I had given you, and you made male idols with which to prostitute yourself.

You prostituted yourself with your lustful neighbors, the Egyptians, and increased your promiscuity to provoke Me to anger.

Then you prostituted yourself with the Assyrians, because you were not yet satisfied. Even after that, you were still not satisfied.