Quotes about Temptation
And if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
— Romans 7:20
So this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.
— Romans 7:21
I was not including the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.
— 1 Corinthians 5:10
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
— 1 Corinthians 6:18
Do not deprive each other, except by mutual consent and for a time, so you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, so that Satan will not tempt you through your lack of self-control.
— 1 Corinthians 7:5
These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.
— 1 Corinthians 10:6
We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
— 1 Corinthians 10:8
We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
— 1 Corinthians 10:8
We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and were killed by snakes.
— 1 Corinthians 10:9
And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.
— 1 Corinthians 10:10
No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.
— 1 Corinthians 10:13
in order that Satan should not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.
— 2 Corinthians 2:11