temptation

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.

⁴¹Be vigilant and pray, so that you may not enter into temptation. Indeed, the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

⁷Therefore, be subject to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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. 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. ¹⁴Yet truly, each one is tempted by his own desires, having been enticed and drawn away. ¹⁵Thereafter, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin. Yet truly sin, when it has been consummated, produces death. ¹⁶And so, do not choose to go astray, my most beloved brothers.

¹⁸For in as much as he himself has suffered and has been tempted, he also is able to assist those who are tempted.

¹¹Be clothed in the armor of God, so that you may be able to stand against the treachery of the devil.

¹Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert, in order to be tempted by the devil. ²And when he had fasted for forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry. ³And approaching, the tempter said to him, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.” ⁴And in response he said, “It has been written: ‘Not by bread alone shall man live, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’ ” ⁵Then the devil took him up, into the holy city, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, ⁶and said to him: “If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down. For it has been written: ‘For he has given charge of you to his angels, and they shall take you into their hands, lest perhaps you may hurt your foot against a stone.’ ”

³⁸Watch and pray, so that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

²⁷Provide no place for the devil.

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.

³knowing that the proving of your faith exercises patience,

⁴⁰And when he had arrived at the place, he said to them: “Pray, lest you enter into temptation.”

²My brothers, when you have fallen into various trials, consider everything a joy, ³knowing that the proving of your faith exercises patience, ⁴and patience brings a work to perfection, so that you may be perfect and whole, deficient in nothing.