Temptation

Conversion

James 5:19-20

… Take heed! thou thyself mayest be tempted, and mayest one day fall. Like David, thou mayest walk on the top of thine house rather too high, and thou …

Vanities and Verities

2 Corinthians 4:18

… Paul, in the Epistle to the Galatians, uses the word in the sense of considering, "considering yourself lest you, also, are tempted." We shall dive still more deeply …

"The Tender Mercy of Our God"

Luke 1:77-79

… O sons of men! Jesus Christ has visited you so as to be tempted in all points like as you are, though without sin. He really assumed our …

Threefold Sanctification

1 Corinthians 1:2

… If you and I are tempted to sin, we must reply, No! Let another man do that, but I cannot. I am God's man. I am set …

The Open Fountain

Zechariah 13:1

… will never fall into it any more; but on a sudden it is tempted, it is overtaken in a fault, and then the devil cries, “You! Why, you …

Enoch

Genesis 5:21-24

… This is worth knowing and remembering, for we may yet be tempted to strive for some imaginary higher style of religious life by looking to our feelings instead …

The 'Beau Ideal' of Life

Psalm 90:14

… golden gains that ever lay before a merchant, the choicest pleasures that ever tempted the human heart would never induce them to tarry till they were forever lost …

Apart

Zechariah 12:12-14

… He does not think of laying the blame on those who tempted him, or on ungodly parents who neglected his education. He looks for nobody to be his …

The Great Arbitration Case

Job 9:33

… No, He went farther—He was tempted as you have been—and farther still, He suffered the pangs of death as you, poor mortal man, will one day …

Free Grace a Motive for Free Giving

2 Thessalonians 2:16

… It would appear that they were tempted to leave their regular habits of life—some of them even neglected their business upon the theory that there was no …

Five Links in a Golden Chain

Titus 1:4

… They are also tempted to spread slanderous reports against people—having little to do in their old age, they are apt to do that little by way of …

The Private Tutor

John 14:24-26

… Her hopeful and eager son was tempted to run after certain loyalties of doctrine and practice and she said to him, "What we have heard from our minister …

The Greatest Folly in the World

Romans 3:11

… vice, the reason lying in the fact that they were not so much tempted as were those others—they were not brought under the same conditions. You and …

How to Read the Bible

Matthew 12:3-7

… If you harp on the letter alone you may be tempted to use it as a weapon against the truth, as the Pharisees did of old, and your …

The Drawings Of Divine Love

John 6:44

… He will be very fickle." "I will keep him." "He will be much tempted." "I will pray for him." "He will have many afflictions." "I will sustain him …

The Blood of Sprinkling and the Children

Exodus 12:21-27

… Redemption is to be our impulse for holy service, our check when we are tempted to sin. They were also to wear the memory of the Passover as …

The First Resurrection

Revelation 20:4

… in goodness, in truth, and in righteousness, that we shall not even be tempted again, much less shall we have any fear of falling! We shall stand spotless …

Refined, But Not With Silver

Isaiah 48:10

… Martin Luther—grand, brave man—have you ever read his private biography? He was a man so tempted, so tried and so frequently the victim of depression of …

Concerning Saints

Psalm 145:10

… you home, for the prodigal, who came back to his father, was sweetly tempted there by the remembrance of the bread in his father's house, of which …

Rain and Grace—a Parallel

Job 38:25-27

… I do not use any whips, but sometimes I am tempted to take a good long one to some of those lazy folk who do nothing and yet …

The Perpetuity of the Law of God

Matthew 5:18

… He was thrice tempted in the wilderness and the enemy had the impertinence, even, to suggest idolatry, but He instantly overthrew the adversary. The prince of this world …

Scarlet Sinners Pardoned and Purified

Isaiah 1:18

… oath—when they have been converted, from that moment they have never been tempted to utter an oath during the rest of life, such clean riddance can the …

Paul's Parenthesis

1 Corinthians 15:10

… If you are sitting at Hell's dark door, I can tell you that I sat there month after month! And if you are tempted even to destroy …

Preparation for Revival

Amos 3:3

… will of the Lord be done.” Our soul, when through infirmity she is tempted to rebellion, nevertheless struggles after complete resignation of her wishes and desires to the …

Shut In Or Shut Out

Genesis 7:16

… was met in the street by a woman who had, at other times, tempted him to sin. He took no notice of her and at last she cried …

The Spur

John 9:4

… I could conceive an angel being almost tempted to linger, if sent to execute vengeance, and to deluge fields with blood for the iniquity of nations. I dare …

"Christ First, Me Last—Nothing Between But Love"

Galatians 2:20

… When you are at the Mercy Seat, tremblingly asking for some great favor, tempted to fear that you will not receive it—your faith will become very strong …

The Rose and the Lily

Solomon 2:1

… the most." May we ever feel thus concerning Him, and if we are tempted to display our powers of oratory when we have to speak of Him, let …

"If There Is No Resurrection"

1 Corinthians 15:12-19

… may say, with Paul, that, "they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute …

The Good Samaritan

Luke 10:25-37

… SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. "And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted Him, saying, Master, whiat shiall I do to inhierit eternal life? He said …

First, King of Righteousness, and after That, King of Peace

Hebrews 7:2

… God's people are tempted, sometimes, to be a little too peaceable. Remember that our Lord Jesus has not come to make us live at peace with sin …

Obeying Christ's Orders

John 2:5

… before Him, never forcing His hand, never tempting Him as they did who tempted God in the wilderness—prescribing to Him to do this or that—but, in …

The Chief Physician and the Centurion's Servant

Matthew 8:7

… at a loss? I have had, during this week, to deal with several tempted ones whose difficulties have put me to a non plus, or would have done …

The Prophet Like Unto Moses

Deuteronomy 18:15-19

… And when He came forth as a Man, His was no phantom manhood, but true flesh and blood! He was tempted and He was betrayed. He hungered and …

Over The Mountains

… He is quite at home with the infirmities of our nature; He knew temptation in the wilderness, heart-break in the garden, desertion on the cross. He is …

The Voice from the Cloud and the Voice of the Beloved

Matthew 17:5

… death." He is touched with a feeling of our infirmities, "for He was tempted in all points like as we are." An absolute God does not seem to …

Brought Up from the Horrible Pit

Psalm 40:1-3

… that I may be able to speak to the experiences of God’s tempted people, and tell how graciously the Lord delivers His servants who trust in Him …

The King and His Court

Psalm 101:6

… One is tempted to begin to comfort some of them when they ought not to be comforted—to say very soft and gentle words to them because they …

The Peacemaker

Matthew 5:9

… He goes into business and it sometimes happens to the peacemaker that circumstances occur in which he is greatly tempted to go to the law. But he never …

May I?

Matthew 9:21

… Then you are not tempted to trust in feelings, but will be drawn to trust wholly on your Lord. "Oh, but I feel so unfit." Very well, then …