Quotes about Temptation
They called out to Lot, saying, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have relations with them!”
- Genesis 19:5
“First sell me your birthright,” Jacob replied.
- Genesis 25:31
and after some time his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, “Sleep with me.”
- Genesis 39:7
But he refused. “Look,” he said to his master’s wife, “with me here, my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has entrusted everything he owns to my care.
- Genesis 39:8
No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?”
- Genesis 39:9
Although Potiphar’s wife spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be near her.
- Genesis 39:10
Although Potiphar’s wife spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be near her.
- Genesis 39:10
She grabbed Joseph by his cloak and said, “Sleep with me!” But leaving his cloak in her hand, he escaped and ran outside.
- Genesis 39:12
When she saw that he had left his cloak in her hand and had run out of the house,
- Genesis 39:13
she called her household servants. “Look,” she said, “this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us. He came to me so he could sleep with me, but I screamed as loud as I could.
- Genesis 39:14
When he heard me scream for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”
- Genesis 39:15
So Potiphar’s wife kept Joseph’s cloak beside her until his master came home.
- Genesis 39:16