Matthew 26:41

Webster's Bible (1833)

Watch and pray, that you don't enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."

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  • Matt 6:13 : 13 Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.'
  • Matt 25:13 : 13 Watch therefore, for you don't know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.
  • Mark 14:38 : 38 Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."
  • Luke 22:46 : 46 and said to them, "Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation."
  • 1 Cor 9:27 : 27 but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
  • 1 Cor 16:13 : 13 Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!
  • Gal 5:16-17 : 16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh. 17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one other, that you may not do the things that you desire.
  • Eph 6:18 : 18 with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:
  • Rom 7:18-25 : 18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good. 19 For the good which I desire, I don't do; but the evil which I don't desire, that I practice. 20 But if what I don't desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me. 21 I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present. 22 For I delight in God's law after the inward man, 23 but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death? 25 I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God's law, but with the flesh, the sin's law.
  • 1 Pet 4:7 : 7 But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
  • 1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
  • 2 Pet 2:9 : 9 the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;
  • Rev 3:10 : 10 Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
  • Rev 16:15 : 15 "Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn't walk naked, and they see his shame."
  • Luke 8:13 : 13 Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.
  • Luke 21:36 : 36 Therefore be watchful all the time, asking that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man."
  • Luke 22:40 : 40 When he was at the place, he said to them, "Pray that you don't enter into temptation."
  • Matt 26:38 : 38 Then he said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me."
  • Mark 13:33-37 : 33 Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don't know when the time is. 34 "It is like a man, traveling to another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch. 35 Watch therefore, for you don't know when the lord of the house is coming, whether at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning; 36 lest coming suddenly he might find you sleeping. 37 What I tell you, I tell all: Watch."
  • Matt 24:42 : 42 Watch therefore, for you don't know in what hour your Lord comes.
  • Ps 119:32 : 32 I run in the path of your commandments, For you have set my heart free.
  • Prov 4:14-15 : 14 Don't enter into the path of the wicked. Don't walk in the way of evil men. 15 Avoid it, and don't pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.
  • Isa 26:8-9 : 8 Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, have we waited for you; to your name, even to your memorial [name], is the desire of our soul. 9 With my soul have I desired you in the night; yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly: for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
  • Ps 119:1 : 1 > Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, Who walk according to Yahweh's law.
  • Ps 119:24-25 : 24 Indeed your statutes are my delight, And my counselors. 25 My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!
  • Ps 119:35-37 : 35 Direct me in the path of your commandments, For I delight in them. 36 Turn my heart toward your statutes, Not toward selfish gain. 37 Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.
  • Ps 119:115 : 115 Depart from me, you evildoers, That I may keep the commandments of my God.
  • Ps 119:117 : 117 Hold me up, and I will be safe, And will have respect for your statutes continually.
  • Luke 11:4 : 4 Forgive us our sins, For we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, But deliver us from the evil one.'"
  • Rom 8:3 : 3 For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
  • 1 Cor 10:13 : 13 No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
  • Phil 3:12-14 : 12 Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus. 13 Brothers, I don't regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
  • Gal 5:24 : 24 Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

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