1054 verses about Temptation

I went to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home; and he said, “Let us meet together in God’s house, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple; for they will come to kill you. Yes, in the night will they come to kill you.”

I said, “Should a man like me flee? Who is there that, being such as I, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.”

I discerned, and behold, God had not sent him; but he pronounced this prophecy against me. Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

He hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and Tobiah’s letters came to them.

Also they spoke of his good deeds before me, and reported my words to him. Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.

Some men of Tyre also lived there, who brought in fish and all kinds of wares, and sold on the Sabbath to the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.

Didn’t Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin.

Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet.” This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.

Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face.”

Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only on himself don’t stretch out your hand.” So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”

Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”

Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.”

Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”

He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment?

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.

A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.

A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him on the path.

“Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,

though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth;

The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye shall see me.’ He disguises his face.

He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.

“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,

“If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door,

and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,

Don’t let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.

Take heed, don’t regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction.

Lay your hand on him. Remember the battle, and do so no more.

He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.

As for the deeds of men, by the word of your lips, I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.

Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.

Don’t let them say in their heart, “Aha! That’s the way we want it!” Don’t let them say, “We have swallowed him up!”

For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to detect and hate his sin.

Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.

They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”

If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread out our hands to a strange god;

They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into the middle of it themselves. Selah.

which doesn’t listen to the voice of charmers, no matter how skillful the charmer may be.

But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had nearly slipped.

For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.

They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

Yes, they spoke against God. They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

They didn’t turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!

They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn’t keep his testimonies;

but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were twisted like a deceitful bow.

Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

They soon forgot his works. They didn’t wait for his counsel,

but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland.

because they were rebellious against his spirit, he spoke rashly with his lips.

They served their idols, which became a snare to them.

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

Keep me from the way of deceit. Grant me your law graciously!

Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.

Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.

The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts.

Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.

For the scepter of wickedness won’t remain over the allotment of the righteous; so that the righteous won’t use their hands to do evil.

The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.

Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.

Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.

My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent.

If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lay in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.

We’ll find all valuable wealth. We’ll fill our houses with plunder.

You shall cast your lot among us. We’ll all have one purse.”

My son, don’t walk on the path with them. Keep your foot from their path,

For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird:

to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things;

To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;

for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits.

Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.

Don’t enter into the path of the wicked. Don’t walk in the way of evil men.

Avoid it, and don’t pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.

For they don’t sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

Don’t turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.

For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,

but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.

Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.

She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it.

Remove your way far from her. Don’t come near the door of her house,

For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?

The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.

You are trapped by the words of your mouth. You are ensnared with the words of your mouth.

Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.

Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.