Temptation: Resistance To
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Genesis 39:7–10
and after some time his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, “Sleep with me.” / But he refused. “Look,” he said to his master’s wife, “with me here, my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has entrusted everything he owns to my care. / No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?”
Nehemiah 4:9
So we prayed to our God and posted a guard against them day and night.
Job 31:1, 5–17, 19–34, 38–40
“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin? / If I have walked in falsehood or my foot has rushed to deceit, / if I have eaten my morsel alone, not sharing it with the fatherless—
Psalm 17:4
As for the deeds of men—by the word of Your lips I have avoided the ways of the violent.
Psalm 73:2–26
But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled; my steps had nearly slipped. / For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. / They have no struggle in their death; their bodies are well-fed.
Psalm 94:17, 18
Unless the LORD had been my helper, I would soon have dwelt in the abode of silence. / If I say, “My foot is slipping,” Your loving devotion, O LORD, supports me.
Psalm 119:101, 110
I have kept my feet from every evil path, that I may keep Your word. / The wicked have set a snare for me, but I have not strayed from Your precepts.
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!
Matthew 4:1–11
Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. / After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry. / The tempter came to Him and said, “If You are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”
Matthew 24:42–44
Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day on which your Lord will come. / But 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. / For this reason, you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour you do not expect.
Matthew 25:13
Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.
Matthew 26:38–42
Then He said to them, “My soul is consumed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with Me.” / Going a little farther, He fell facedown and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I will, but as You will.” / Then Jesus returned to the disciples and found them sleeping. “Were you not able to keep watch with Me for one hour?” He asked Peter.
Mark 13:33–37
Be on your guard and stay alert! For you do not know when the appointed time will come. / It is like a man going on a journey who left his house, put each servant in charge of his own task, and instructed the doorkeeper to keep watch. / Therefore keep watch, because you do not know when the master of the house will return—whether in the evening, at midnight, when the rooster crows, or in the morning.
Mark 14:37, 38
Then Jesus returned and found them sleeping. “Simon, are you asleep?” He asked. “Were you not able to keep watch for one hour? / Watch and pray so that you will not enter into temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak.”
Luke 4:1–13
Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, / where for forty days He was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they had ended, He was hungry. / The devil said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.”
Luke 12:35–38
Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning. / Then you will be like servants waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks, they can open the door for him at once. / Blessed are those servants whom the master finds on watch when he returns. Truly I tell you, he will dress himself to serve and will have them recline at the table, and he himself will come and wait on them.
Luke 21:33–36
Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away. / But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare. / For it will come upon all who dwell on the face of all the earth.
1 Corinthians 6:13
“Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
1 Peter 4:7
The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear-minded and sober, so that you can pray.
Revelation 3:2, 3
Wake up and strengthen what remains, which was about to die; for I have found your deeds incomplete in the sight of My God. / Remember, then, what you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know the hour when I will come upon you.