Quotes about Temptation
Do not envy wicked men or desire their company;
- Proverbs 24:1
Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked.
- Proverbs 25:26
The words of a gossip are like choice morsels that go down into the inmost being.
- Proverbs 26:22
To show partiality is not good, yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.
- Proverbs 28:21
This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’
- Proverbs 30:20
Surely extortion turns a wise man into a fool, and a bribe corrupts the heart.
- Ecclesiastes 7:7
And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.
- Ecclesiastes 7:26
By the time He knows enough to reject evil and choose good, He will be eating curds and honey.
- Isaiah 7:15
Now what will you gain on your way to Egypt to drink the waters of the Nile? What will you gain on your way to Assyria to drink the waters of the Euphrates?
- Jeremiah 2:18
They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor’s wife.
- Jeremiah 5:8
They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor’s wife.
- Jeremiah 5:8
and if you say, ‘No, but we will go to the land of Egypt and live there, where we will not see war or hear the sound of the ram’s horn or hunger for bread,’
- Jeremiah 42:14