Bible Verses About Temptation
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for temptation, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 8,071 votes, led by 1 Corinthians 10:13. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Temptation
1 Corinthians 10:131,223 votes
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Matthew 26:41806 votes
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
James 4:7586 votes
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
James 1:12-16554 votes
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
Hebrews 2:18425 votes
For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.
Ephesians 6:11344 votes
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Matthew 4:1-11252 votes
Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
Mark 14:38234 votes
Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.
Ephesians 4:27226 votes
Neither give place to the devil.
James 1:12153 votes
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
James 1:3149 votes
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
Luke 22:40142 votes
And when he was at the place, he said unto them, Pray that ye enter not into temptation.
James 1:2-4136 votes
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
Hebrews 4:15132 votes
For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
1 Corinthians 6:13119 votes
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
Hebrews 12:4118 votes
Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
1 Peter 4:12101 votes
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
1 John 4:4100 votes
Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
1 Corinthians 6:18-2095 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Matthew 6:1393 votes
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
1 John 2:1685 votes
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Romans 6:12-1477 votes
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Luke 22:4669 votes
And said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.
Galatians 5:1769 votes
For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
James 1:1369 votes
Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
What does the Bible say about temptation?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 10:13 on the subject of temptation. Across 8,071 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Matthew 26:41, James 4:7, James 1:12-16. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.