Quotes about Temptation
I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do.
- Romans 7:15
In that case, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
- Romans 7:17
I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
- Romans 7:18
For I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to do.
- Romans 7:19
And if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
- Romans 7:20
So this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.
- Romans 7:21
I was not including the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.
- 1 Corinthians 5:10
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
- 1 Corinthians 6:18
Do not deprive each other, except by mutual consent and for a time, so you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, so that Satan will not tempt you through your lack of self-control.
- 1 Corinthians 7:5
These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.
- 1 Corinthians 10:6
We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
- 1 Corinthians 10:8
We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
- 1 Corinthians 10:8