Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth He any man.
Say not thou, He hath with evil, and He Himself caused me to err: for He hath notempteth no man (i.
Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, and He Himself tempteth no man: but each man is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.
It tempteth the devil to fall upon those that are alone, and have none to help them.
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.
Let no man say when he is tempted that he is tempted of God: for God tempteth not unto evil: he tempteth no man: But every man is tempted drawn away, and enticed of his own concupiscence.
For the enemy tempteth not unbelievers and sinners, because he already hath secure possession of them; but he tempteth and harasseth the faithful and devout by various means.
To all religious men they were given as an example, and they ought more to provoke us unto good livings than the number of the lukewarmtempteth to carelessness of life.
For there is another sort of temptation which is called a proving; of this kind of temptation it is written, "The Lord your God tempteth [proveth] you to know whether ye love him.
With that kind of temptation whereby we are deceived and seduced, God temptethno man.
For God is not a tempter of evils: and he tempteth no man.
Before prayer prepare thy soul: and be not as a man that tempteth God.
For this cause also, I, forbearing no longer, sent to know your faith: lest perhaps he that tempteth should have tempted you: and our labour should be made vain.
Beware lest in the end a narrow faith capture thee," says Zarathustra, "for now everything that is narrow and fixed seduceth and tempteth thee.
For now everything that is narrow and fixed seduceth and tempteth thee.
Remember that injuries are your trials and temptations; God trieth you by them, and Satan tempteth you by them.
Mortify your own lusts and sinful curiosity, which maketh you think that you need so much, as tempteth you to get it by oppressing others.
Nay, is it not worse than the devil that tempteth you to it can commit.
When you suffer your minds to run all day long upon your necessities and straits, the devil next tempteth you to think of unlawful courses to supply them.
Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man.
For God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man.
Which tempteth the Erastians to deny and pull down both together, because they find one in the pastor's hands which belongeth to the magistrate, and we do not teach them to untwist and separate them.
He that envieth your happiness, knoweth by sad experience the way to misery; and therefore tempteth you to be proud, that you may come, by the same way, to the same end that he himself is come to.
Children he tempteth to be disobedient, unthankful, void of natural affection, unreverent dishonourers of their parents.
In the beginning of manhood he tempteth to lust, voluptuousness, and luxury; or if these take not, to designs of worldliness and ambition.
And that, lastly, he tempteththem into actual compliance and committing of the sin: and herein, 1.
If they have mean thoughts of you, or speak despising or dishonouring words of you, he tempteth you by it to hate them, or love them less, or to speak contemptuously of them.
When the malicious tempter casteth in doubts of a Deity, or other points of natural certainty, it so much discrediteth his suggestions, as may help us much to reject them when withal he tempteth us to doubt of the truth of the gospel.
He tempteth youth to wantonness, rudeness, gulosity, unruliness, and foolish inconsiderateness.
It is unlawful to do that whichtempteth and encourageth others to drink too much.
Doth not he tempt a man to be hanged, that tempteth him to kill and steal?
The devil also tempteth them to think, that though they sin, yet their good works are a compensation for their bad, and therefore they pray, and do some acts of pharisaical devotion, to make God amends for what they do amiss.
The meek and gentle he tempteth to a yieldingness unto the persuasions and will of erroneous and tempting persons.
God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man," Is it then supposeable that he can produce it by direct efficiency?
Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: For God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man.
Prithee, what new knowledge hast thou got, that so worketh off thy mind from thy friends, and that tempteththee to go, nobody knows where?
Look how he tempteththee with is decoy, That he may rob thee of thy life, thy joy.
Holy Scripture warns us "Before prayer prepare thy soul and be not as a man that tempteth God" (Ecclus.
And therefore by the night's fear here I understand the tribulation by which the devil, through the sufference of God, either by himself or by others who are his instruments, tempteth good folk to impatience as he did Job.
For the devil tempteth sundry folk by sundry ways.
But there are very good folk and virtuous who are in the daylight of grace, and yet the devil tempteth them busily to such fleshly delight.
But surely, cousin, a horrible sore trouble it is to any man or woman whom the devil tempteth with that temptation.
For both by temptation the devil persecuteth us, and by persecution the devil also tempteth us.
That is, cousin, where the devil tempteth a man to kill and destroy himself.
It has been very wisely said that "the knowledge of sin tempteth to its commission.
Let them remember that "the knowledge of sin tempteth to its commission," and then avoid those temptations that in time to come may {468} threaten their virtue and their standing in the Church of Christ.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tempteth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
