Quotations about temptations

Man is never safe from them as long as he lives, for they come from within us -- in sin we were born.

When one temptation or trial passes, another comes; we shall always have something to suffer because we have lost the state of original blessedness.

The Imitation Of Christ (13)

{3:10} For, "He who would love life, and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit.

Peter's First Letter 3:10

{1:13} Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.
{1:14} But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.
{1:15} Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.

The Letter from James 1:13-15

{1:2} Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,
{1:3} knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
{1:4} Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

The Letter from James 1:2-4

{6:12} For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Paul's Letter to the Ephesians 6:12

{6:9} ...Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
{6:10} nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortioners, will inherit the Kingdom of God.

Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 6:9-10

Watch and pray, that you don't enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Matthew 26:41

True peace of heart, then, is found in resisting passions, not in satisfying them.

There is no peace in the carnal man, in the man given to vain attractions, but there is peace in the fervent and spiritual man.

Thomas À Kempis

Turn away your eye from a comely woman, And gaze not on another's beauty: By the beauty of a woman many have been led astray; And herewith love is kindled as a fire.

The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach 9:8

Make not merry in much luxury; Neither be tied to the expense thereof.

The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach 18:32

Go not after your lusts; And refrain yourself from your appetites.

The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach 18:30

Blessed is he whose soul does not condemn him...

The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach 14:2

But there was none like Ahab, who sold himself to do that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

The First Book of Kings 21:25

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