Quotes about Temptation

that wicked men have arisen from among you and have led the people of their city astray, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods” (which you have not known),

They went and served other gods, and they worshiped gods they had not known—gods that the LORD had not given to them.

When I saw among the spoils a beautiful cloak from Shinar, two hundred shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”

Was not the sin of Peor enough for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day? It even brought a plague upon the congregation of the LORD.

know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.

So now I tell you that I will not drive out these people before you; they will be thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.”

From all this Gideon made an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his hometown. But soon all Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his household.

One day Samson went down to Timnah, where he saw a young Philistine woman.

Then Samson continued on his way down and spoke to the woman, because she was pleasing to his eyes.

One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went in to spend the night with her.

Some time later, Samson fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me the source of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.”