Quotes about Temptation
David's passion was turned toward Bathshcba, which resulted in an affair.
- Perry Stone
but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”
- Genesis 2:17
The woman answered the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden,
- Genesis 3:2
but about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You must not eat of it or touch it, or you will die.’”
- Genesis 3:3
“You will not surely die,” the serpent told her.
- Genesis 3:4
“For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
- Genesis 3:5
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.
- Genesis 3:6
“Who told you that you were naked?” asked the LORD God. “Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”
- Genesis 3:11
And the man answered, “The woman whom You gave me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
- Genesis 3:12
Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” “The serpent deceived me,” she replied, “and I ate.”
- Genesis 3:13
Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...”
- Genesis 3:22
If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you refuse to do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires you, but you must master it.”
- Genesis 4:7