overcoming temptation
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13Temptation should not take hold of you, except what is human. For God is faithful, and he will not permit you to be tempted beyond your ability. Instead, he will effect his Providence, even during temptation, so that you may be able to bear it.
7Therefore, be subject to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
18For in as much as he himself has suffered and has been tempted, he also is able to assist those who are tempted.
15For we do not have a high priest who is unable to have compassion on our infirmities, but rather one who was tempted in all things, just as we are, yet without sin.
13And lead us not into temptation. But free us from evil. Amen.
11I have hidden your eloquence in my heart, so that I may not sin against you.
16So then, I say: Walk in the spirit, and you will not fulfill the desires of the flesh.
12Blessed is the man who suffers temptation. For when he has been proven, he shall receive the crown of life which God has promised to those who love him.
14Yet truly, each one is tempted by his own desires, having been enticed and drawn away.
13No one should say, when he is tempted, that he was tempted by God. For God does not entice toward evils, and he himself tempts no one.
40And when he had arrived at the place, he said to them: “Pray, lest you enter into temptation.”
41Be vigilant and pray, so that you may not enter into temptation. Indeed, the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
17Therefore, he who knows that he ought to do a good thing, and does not do it, for him it is a sin.