TEMPTATION

- God cannot be the subject of Jas 1:13 - Does not come from God Jas 1:13 - COMES FROM . Lusts Jas 1:14 . Covetousness Pr 28:20; 1Ti 6:9,10 - The devil is the author of 1Ch 21:1; Mt 4:1; Joh 13:2; 1Th 3:5 - Evil associates, the instruments of Pr 1:10; 7:6; 16:29 - OFTEN ARISES THROUGH . Poverty Pr 30:9; Mt 4:2,3 . Prosperity Pr 30:9; Mt 4:8 . Worldly glory Nu 22:17; Da 4:30; 5:2; Mt 4:8 - To distrust of God's providence Mt 4:3 - To presumption Mt 4:6 - To worshipping the god of this world Mt 4:9 - Often strengthened by the perversion of God's word Mt 4:6 - PERMITTED AS A TRIAL OF . Faith 1Pe 1:7; Jas 1:2,3 . Disinterestedness Job 1:9-12 - Always conformable to the nature of man 1Co 10:13 - Often ends in sin and perdition 1Ti 6:9; Jas 1:15 - CHRIST . Endured, from the devil Mr 1:13 . Endured, from the wicked Mt 16:1; 22:18; Lu 10:25 . Resisted by the word of God Mt 4:4,7,10 . Overcame Mt 4:11 . Sympathises with those under Heb 4:15 . Is able to help those under Heb 2:18 . Intercedes for his people under Lu 22:31,32; Joh 17:15 - God will not suffer saints to be exposed to, beyond their powers to bear 1Co 10:13 - God will make a way for saints to escape out of 1Co 10:13 - God enables the saints to bear 1Co 10:13 - God knows how to deliver saints out of 2Pe 2:9 - Christ keeps faithful saints from the hour of Re 3:10 - Saints may be in heaviness through 1Pe 1:6 - SAINTS SHOULD . Resist, in faith Eph 6:16; 1Pe 5:9 . Watch against Mt 26:41; 1Pe 5:8 . Pray to be kept from Mt 6:13; 26:41 . Not to occasion, to others Ro 14:13 . Restore those overcome by Ga 6:1 . Avoid the way of Pr 4:14,15 - The devil will renew Lu 4:13 - Has strength through the weakness of the flesh Mt 26:41 - Mere professors fall away in time of Lu 8:13 - Blessedness of those who meet and overcome Jas 1:2-4,12 - Exemplified . Eve Ge 3:1,4,5 . Joseph Ge 39:7 . Balaam Nu 22:17 . Achan Jos 7:21 . David 2Sa 11:2 . Jeroboam 1Ki 15:30 . Peter Mr 14:67-71 . Paul 2Co 12:7; Ga 4:14

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Temptation. Temptation
(1.) Trial; a being put to the test. Thus God “tempted [Gen. 22: 1; R.V., ‘did prove’] Abraham;” and afflictions are said to tempt, i.e., to try, men (James 1:2, 12; comp. Deut. 8:2), putting their faith and patience to the test. (2.) Ordinarily, however, the word means solicitation to that which is evil, and hence Satan is called “the tempter” (Matt. 4:3). Our Lord was in this way tempted in the wilderness. That temptation was not internal, but by a real, active, subtle being. It was not self-sought. It was submitted to as an act of obedience on his part. “Christ was led, driven. An unseen personal force bore him a certain violence is implied in the words” (Matt. 4:1-11).

The scene of the temptation of our Lord is generally supposed to have been the mountain of Quarantania (q.v.), “a high and precipitous wall of rock, 1,200 or 1,500 feet above the plain west of Jordan, near Jericho.”

Temptation is common to all (Dan. 12:10; Zech. 13:9; Ps. 66:10; Luke 22:31, 40; Heb. 11:17; James 1:12; 1 Pet. 1:7; 4:12). We read of the temptation of Joseph (Gen. 39), of David (2 Sam. 24; 1 Chr. 21), of Hezekiah (2 Chr. 32:31), of Daniel (Dan. 6), etc. So long as we are in this world we are exposed to temptations, and need ever to be on our watch against them.

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TEMPTATION. → General scriptures concerning Ge 3:1-13; 20:6; Ex 34:12-16; De 7:25; 8:11-14,17,18; 13:3; 1Ch 21:1; 2Ch 32:30,31; Ps 119:165; Pr 1:10-17; 2:10-12,16; 4:14,15; 5:6-21; 6:27,28; 7:7-23; 9:15-17; 12:26; 13:14; 14:27; 16:29; 19:27; 28:10; Ec 7:26; Isa 33:15,16; Jer 2:24,25; 35:5-7; Ho 7:5; Am 2:12; Mt 4:1-11; 5:19; 12:45; 13:22; 18:6-9; 26:31,41; Mr 4:15,17; 10:21-25; 13:21,22; 14:38; Lu 4:1-13; 8:13,14; 11:4; 22:3,31,32,40,46; Joh 16:1,2; Ro 6:12-14; 7:5; 8:35-39; 12:21; 14:13,15,21; 1Co 7:5; 8:9-13; 10:13,28-32; 2Co 2:11; 11:3,14,15; 12:7; Ga 4:14; 5:17; Eph 4:27; 6:11,13-17; 1Th 3:5; 1Ti 5:15; 6:9,10; 2Ti 3:13; Heb 2:18; 4:15; 12:3,4; Jas 1:2-4,12-16; 4:7; 1Pe 1:6,7; 4:12; 5; 2Pe 2:9,18; 3:17; 1Jo 2:16,26; 4:4; Re 3:10; 12:10,11,17 → See DEMONS → See FAITH, TRIAL OF → See SATAN → A TEST Ge 22:1-14; De 8:2,5; 13:1-3; 2Ch 32:31; Job 1:8-22; 2:3-10; Ps 66:10-13; Da 12:10; Zec 13:9; Heb 11:17; Jas 1:2,3,12; 1Pe 1:6,7
* See AFFLICTION, DESIGN OF
* See FAITH, TRIAL OF

→ LEADING INTO
* Prayer against being led into Mt 6:13; Lu 22:40

→ INSTANCES OF
* Abraham leads Pharaoh Ge 12:18,19
* Abimelech Ge 20:9
* Balak tempts Balaam Nu 22; 23; 24
* The old prophet of Beth-el, the prophet of Judah 1Ki 13:15-19
* Gideon leads the people of Israel into sin Jud 8:27
* Jeroboam leads the northern kingdom (Israel) into 1Ki 15:30
* See RESISTANCE TO
* See YIELDING TO, below

→ RESISTANCE TO Ge 39:7-10; Ne 4:9; Job 31:1,5-17,19-34,38-40; Ps 17:4; 73:2-26; 94:17,18; 119:101,110; Am 4:12; Mt 4:1-11; 24:42-44; 25:13; 26:38-42; Mr 13:33-37; 14:37,38; Lu 4:1-13; 12:35-38; 21:33-36; 1Co 6:13; 1Pe 4:7; Re 3:2,3 → YIELDING TO
* INSTANCES OF
* Adam and Eve Ge 3:1-19
* Sarah, to lie Ge 12:13; 18:13-15; 20:13
* Isaac, to lie Ge 26:7
* Jacob, to defraud Esau Ge 27:6-13
* Balaam Nu 22:15-22; 2Pe 2:15
* Achan Jos 7:21
* David, to commit adultery 2Sa 11:2-5
* To count the nation of Israel 1Ch 21
* Solomon, to become an idolater through the influences of his wives 1Ki 11:4; Ne 13:26
* The prophet of Judah 1Ki 13:11-19
* Hezekiah 2Ki 20:12-20; Isa 39:1-4,6,7
* Peter Mt 26:69-74; Mr 14:67-71; Lu 22:55-60

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(A) MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS relating to (1) Satan the Chief Agent in Ge 3:1; 1Ch 21:1; Mt 4:3; 2Co 2:11; 11:3; 1Th 3:5 1Ti 6:9; Jas 1:14; 2Pe 2:18 (2) Voluntary entering into Ge 3:6; 13:12; Mt 26:41; Lu 22:40 --SEE Allurements of Sin, SIN (3) Encouragement to those in the Midst of 1Co 10:13; Heb 2:18; Jas 1:2,3,12; 2Pe 2:9; Re 3:10 --SEE Promises to Tempted, PROMISES, DIVINE (B) TEMPTATION OF CHRIST Mt 4:1; Lu 4:2; 22:28; Heb 2:18; 4:15 (C) YIELDING TO TEMPTATION, the allurements which lead to The Lure of Forbidden Fruit Ge 3:6 The Lure of Fertile Fields Ge 13:10,11,13 The Lure of Appetite Ge 25:29,30,33 The Lure of Silver and Gold Jos 7:21; Jud 14:17; 16:17; 1Sa 13:12 The Lure of Women 1Ki 11:1,4 The Lure of Ambition Mr 10:35-37; 2Pe 2:20 --SEE Allurements of Sin, SIN (D) RESISTING TEMPTATION (1) Examples of Abraham, by Refusing a Reward for service rendered Ge 14:23; 1Ki 13:8 Elisha, by Reusing Payment for Healing 2Ki 5:16 Job, by rejecting Evil Counsel Job 2:9,10 The Rechabites and Daniel, by Refusing Wine Jer 35:5,6; Da 1:8 Christ, by refusing Worldly Honour Lu 4:5-8; Joh 6:15 Peter, by Refusing a Bribe Ac 8:20 --SEE Overcomers, BATTLE OF LIFE (2) The Duty of Resisting Pr 1:10; 4:14; Lu 21:34; Ro 6:13; Eph 6:13; 2Pe 3:17 --SEE Resist the Devil, SATAN (E) TEMPTATION TO DECEIT, examples of Ge 12:13; 26:7; 1Sa 21:2,3; 2Ki 10:18; Mt 26:73,74 (F) SPECIAL SOURCES OF (1) Worldly Snares -- False Gods Ex 23:33 -- Sinful Covenants Ex 34:12 -- Silver and Gold De 7:25 -- Evil Associations Jos 23:13 -- Idolatry Ps 106:36 -- Broken vows Pr 20:25 -- Friendship with violent men Pr 22:25 -- Scoffing Pr 29:8 -- Avarice 1Ti 6:9 --SEE Net, NET (2) Enticers De 13:6; Pr 1:10; 16:29; 28:10; 2Pe 2:18 (F) SPECIAL SOURCES OF (3) Seducers 2Ki 21:9; Eze 13:10; Mr 13:22; Ac 20:30; 1Ti 4:1 2Ti 3:13; 1Jo 2:26 --SEE Deceivers, FALSEHOOD Evil Influence, EVIL (4) Evil Companionships, ruinous Influence of -- Injured Lot Ge 13:12,13 -- A Detriment to Israel Nu 11:4 -- A Snare to Jehoshaphat 2Ch 18:1; 19:2 -- Devoured the strength of Ephraim Ho 7:9 -- Corrupt good morals 1Co 15:33 --SEE Allurements of Sin, SIN Satan, TEMPTATION The Flesh, FLESH, THE Temptresses, WOMEN

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temptation. Temptation, n. the act of tempting, a bait, a trial

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Temp‐ta″tion (?), n. [[OF. temptation, tentation, F. tentation, L. tentatio.]] 1. 1. The act of tempting, or enticing to evil; seduction.
When the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season. Luke iv. 13. 2. 2. The state of being tempted, or enticed to evil.
Lead us not into temptation. Luke xi. 4. 3. 3. That which tempts; an inducement; an allurement, especially to something evil.
Dare to be great, without a guilty crown; View it, and lay the bright temptation down. Dryden.