TEMPT, TEMPTATION


Greek:  tempt - ekpeirazo = to try, prove exceedingly

                         peirazo = to try, prove

    temptation - peirasmos = trial, proof

                        peirazo = to try prove

  1. Matthew 4:1 “Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted (peirazo)of the devil”

  2. Matthew 4:7; Luke 4:12 “Thou shalt not tempt (ekpeirzao) the Lord thy God.”

  3. Matthew 6:13; Luke 11:4 “And lead us not into temptation (peirasmos), but deliver us from evil:”

  4. Matthew 26:41; Mark 14:38; Luke 22:40,46 “Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation (peirasmos): the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

  5. I Corinthians 10:9 “Neither let us tempt (ekpeirzao) Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.”

  6. I Corinthians 10:13 “There hath no temptation (peirasmos) taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted (peirazo)above that ye are able; but will with the temptation (peirasmos) also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.”

  7. Galatians 6:1 “Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted (peirazo).”

  8. I Thessalonians 3:5 “For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted (peirasmos) you, and our labor be in vain.”

  9. I Timothy 6:9 “But they that be rich fall into temptation (peirasmos)and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.”

  10. Hebrews 2:18 “For in that He himself hath suffered being tempted (peirazo), He is able to succour them that are tempted.”

  11. Hebrews 4:15 “For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted (peirazo) like as we are, yet without sin.”

  12. James 1:2 “My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations (peirasmos); knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.”

  13. James 1:12 “Blessed is the man that endureth temptation (peirasmos): for when he is tried he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.”

  14. James 1:13-15 “Let no man say when he is tempted (peirazo), I am tempted (peirazo)of God: for God cannot be tempted (peirazo)with evil, neither tempteth (peirazo) he any man: But every man is tempted (peirazo), when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.”

  15. I Peter 1:6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations (peirasmos):”

  16. II Peter 2:9 “The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations (peirasmos).”

  17. Revelation 3:10 “Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee out of the hour of temptation (peirasmos), which shall come upon all the world to try them that dwell upon the earth.”