tempt / temptation / trialsEntice or attempt to entice someone to do or acquire something that they find attractive but know to be wrong. To enter into temptation, to be lured, to face enticement, something that appeals or attracts us to go in a wrong direction. DTP Satan often temps us with pleasure and self-gratification. The temptation is the first step in getting us to move away from God's will, and moving into sinful thoughts and actions. Temptation is not the sin but acting on that temptation is what makes it sinful. Scripture also sometimes uses "tempt" in relation to disciples trying the patience of God.wherefore do ye tempt the LORD Ex 17:2ye shall not tempt the LORD your God Deut 6:16 (Matt 4:7: Luke 4:12)yet they tempted and provoked the most high God Ps 78:56in the wilderness and tempted God in the desert Ps 106:14to be tempted of the devil Matt 4:1 (Mark 1:13; Luke 4:2)thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God Matt 4:7to tempt the Spirit of the Lord Acts 5:9neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted 1 Cor 10:9who will not suffer you to be tempted above that 1 Cor 10:13thyself, lest thou also be tempted Gal 6:1but was in all points tempted like as we are Heb 4:15no man says when he is tempted, I am tempted of God James 1:13but every man is tempted, when he is James 1:14
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