tempteth

Updated: May 8, 2025

Blessed is the man who patiently supports temptation: for when he is proved, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to those who love him. Let no man under temptation say, I am tempted of God: for God is incapable of temptation from evils, and he tempteth no man: but every person is tempted, when by his own peculiar passion he is born away, and ensnared.

T. Haweis - A Translation of the New Testament from the original Greek

But no enlightened advocate either of Providence or Predestination will affirm that there is any "physical necessity," imposed by the Divine will, which constrains men to commit sin, or that God is "the author of sin." "Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted of evil, neither tempteth He any man.

James Buchanan - Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws

No; not above what thou art able. He that tempts thee doth not at all consider thy strength, so as to stop when he sees thou art weak; he would have thee overthrown, for therefore it is that he tempteth thee. But God will not suffer that, because he is faithful, and because thou hast committed the keeping of thy soul unto him in well-doing, as unto a faithful Creator.

John Bunyan - Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02

"We forgive thee, Brother Brian," said the Grand Master; "though that thou hast boasted thy warlike achievements before us, is a glorifying of thine own deeds, and cometh of the Enemy, who tempteth us to exalt our own worship.

Sir Walter Scott - Ivanhoe

So you see, "Let no man say, when he is tempted, I am tempted of God, for God tempteth no man, but every one is tempted when he is led away by his own lust and enticed."

Charles Kingsley - Twenty-Five Village Sermons