TOPICAL BIBLE
Temptation
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Proverbs 7:13She seizes him and kisses him; she brazenly says to him:Proverbs 7:14“I have made my peace offerings; today I have paid my vows.Proverbs 7:15So I came out to meet you; I sought you, and I have found you.Proverbs 7:16I have decked my bed with coverings, with colored linen from Egypt.Proverbs 7:17I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, with aloes, and with cinnamon.Proverbs 7:18Come, let us take our fill of love till morning. Let us delight in loving caresses!Proverbs 7:19For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey.Proverbs 7:20He took with him a bag of money and will not return till the moon is full.”Proverbs 7:21With her great persuasion she entices him; with her flattering lips she lures him.Proverbs 7:22He follows her on impulse, like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer bounding into a trap,Proverbs 7:23until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare—not knowing it will cost him his life.Proverbs 9:15calling out to those who pass by, who make their paths straight.Proverbs 9:16“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” she says to him who lacks judgment.Proverbs 9:17“Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is tasty!”Proverbs 12:26A righteous man is cautious in friendship, but the ways of the wicked lead them astray.Proverbs 13:14The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning one from the snares of death.Proverbs 14:27The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, turning a man from the snares of death.Proverbs 16:29A violent man entices his neighbor and leads him down a path that is not good.Proverbs 19:27If you cease to hear instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.Proverbs 28:10He who leads the upright along the path of evil will fall into his own pit, but the blameless will inherit what is good.Ecclesiastes 7:26And 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.Isaiah 33:15He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, who refuses gain from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears against murderous plots and shuts his eyes tightly against evil—Isaiah 33:16he will dwell on the heights; the mountain fortress will be his refuge; his food will be provided and his water assured.Isaiah 39:1At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard about Hezekiah’s illness and recovery.Isaiah 39:2And Hezekiah welcomed the envoys gladly and showed them what was in his treasure house—the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, as well as his entire armory—all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his palace or in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them.Isaiah 39:3Then the prophet Isaiah went to King Hezekiah and asked, “Where did those men come from, and what did they say to you?” “They came to me from a distant land,” Hezekiah replied, “from Babylon.”Isaiah 39:4“What have they seen in your palace?” Isaiah asked. “They have seen everything in my palace,” answered Hezekiah. “There is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them.”Isaiah 39:6The time will surely come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.Isaiah 39:7And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood, will be taken away to be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”Jeremiah 2:24a wild donkey at home in the wilderness, sniffing the wind in the heat of her desire. Who can restrain her passion? All who seek her need not weary themselves; in mating season they will find her.Jeremiah 2:25You should have kept your feet from going bare and your throat from being thirsty. But you said, ‘It is hopeless! For I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.’Jeremiah 35:5Then I set pitchers full of wine and some cups before the men of the house of the Rechabites, and I said to them, “Drink some wine.”Jeremiah 35:6“We do not drink wine,” they replied, “for our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab commanded us, ‘Neither you nor your descendants are ever to drink wine.Jeremiah 35:7Nor are you ever to build a house or sow seed or plant a vineyard. Those things are not for you. Instead, you must live in tents all your lives, so that you may live a long time in the land where you wander.’Daniel 12:10Many will be purified, made spotless, and refined, but the wicked will continue to act wickedly. None of the wicked will understand, but the wise will understand.Hosea 7:5The princes are inflamed with wine on the day of our king; so he joins hands with those who mock him.Amos 2:12“But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.Amos 4:12“Therefore, that is what I will do to you, O Israel, and since I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!Zechariah 13:9This third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are My people,’ and they will say, ‘The LORD is our God.’”Matthew 4:1Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.Matthew 4:2After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.Matthew 4:3The tempter came to Him and said, “If You are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”Matthew 4:4But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”Matthew 4:5Then the devil took Him to the holy city and set Him on the pinnacle of the temple.Matthew 4:6“If You are the Son of God,” he said, “throw Yourself down. For it is written: ‘He 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.’”Matthew 4:7Jesus replied, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’”Matthew 4:8Again, the devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.Matthew 4:9“All this I will give You,” he said, “if You will fall down and worship me.”Matthew 4:10“Away from Me, Satan!” Jesus told him. “For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.’”Matthew 4:11Then the devil left Him, and angels came and ministered to Him.Matthew 5:19So then, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do likewise will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever practices and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.Matthew 6:13And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’Matthew 12:45Then 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.”Matthew 13:22The seed sown among the thorns is the one who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.Matthew 18:6But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.Matthew 18:7Woe to the world for the causes of sin. These stumbling blocks must come, but woe to the man through whom they come!Matthew 18:8If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than to have two hands and two feet and be thrown into the eternal fire.Matthew 18:9And 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.Matthew 24:42Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day on which your Lord will come.Matthew 24:43But understand this: If the homeowner had known in which watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into.